Hi, I'm Blake

I design products and write the code that ships them. I spent twelve years at ZipRecruiter, from a ten-person startup to the NYSE, and left as VP of Product Design. Since 2024 I've designed and built ten App Store products on my own.

I'm a dad and a husband in Pasadena, California. My apps ship under the name 941 Apps. My generative art lives at Dream of Electric.

Companies I've worked with

Kiradex

A collector's dex for Pokémon cards, built around the card as an object: a scanner that names the card you hold up, on the phone; every set in English and Japanese; each card in 3D with foil that moves as it turns; a pixel-art town for collectors; and a website that runs the app inside a model of its device.

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Randori

A jiu-jitsu training log for iPhone and Apple Watch, built because I train. Live heart rate on the mat, session notes matched on-device to film-backed lessons, honest belt progress, and a CloudKit social layer with moderation wired in from day one.

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941 Reps

A fast, private workout log for iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch. Handwritten notebook design, seventeen languages, and a connector that lets Claude read your training history and plan your next session through one validated write path.

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Return

A zen meditation and focus timer for iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Apple TV, and Mac. Built end-to-end in SwiftUI for iOS 26 with Liquid Glass, HealthKit mindful-minute logging, and iCloud session sync across every device.

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Get Bananas

A handwritten-style shopping list for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch — with a Claude Desktop extension that lets Claude read and update your list. SwiftUI on every device, an MCP server in the bundle, one JSON file in your iCloud container.

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941 Tiles

A one-click window tiler for macOS. When the Mac App Store sandbox forbade the Accessibility API every other tiler relies on, I shipped anyway by delegating the window moves to Apple's own Shortcuts engine. Native Swift, 17 languages, collects nothing.

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Vision Sprint

A design sprint I led as VP of Product Design at ZipRecruiter. Our eight-person team reimagined hiring as two-way matchmaking and presented it to the CEO and executive team. Project eLLMo shipped from it.

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Project eLLMo

One of ZipRecruiter's first LLM features: a conversation that captures what a job seeker wants and is qualified for, in their own words. First-time job clicks more than doubled, and registration completion rose from 82% to 89%.

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Introl

Introl.com deploys GPU clusters for AI data centers. I came in as a consultant to rebrand the company around its promise that it "gets *it done," then joined as CTO. As the only engineer, I worked the way a forward deployed engineer does: I sat with operations, recruiting, and sales, then built what each team needed, including a custom applicant tracking system, a quoting tool, and the website.

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Ace Citizenship

A free iOS app helping immigrants prepare for the USCIS naturalization test through spaced repetition. Designed, branded, and engineered by hand.

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Tappy Color

Tappy Color was created in the summer of 2016 by Chris Greer and Blake Crosley. The game features a fish named Tappy that you save through tapping the screen which lifts the water line.

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