Borna Safai - Technical Product Manager

Tend's Escalations page, listing recurring chores by how overdue they are with green, yellow and red progress bars

Web Android macOS Live · tendapp.ca

Tend

A calm to-do app that quietly shows what’s slipping. Inbox, Today and Upcoming keep the day simple, projects work as lists or boards, and repeating tasks cover everything from every few days to the first Saturday of the month. It runs in the browser, on Android, on iPhone and iPad, and on the Mac, and syncs between them.

What’s interesting Two mechanics I wanted that my old task manager didn’t have. Escalation colours: give a task an escalation step and its dot is green when it comes due, yellow after a step and red after two, with an Escalations page that lines every task up by how close it is to the next colour. And every-Nth-time subtasks - “water the plants every 10 days, and every 3rd time also feed them.” An Eisenhower matrix sorts today’s tasks into four quadrants, and a task keeps its place even when a repeating task comes back around, so you only sort it once.

Flutter
Firebase
Riverpod
TypeScript
Stripe

Visit site ↗

borNote in the dark theme, with the sidebar, note list and an open note

macOS Updates automatically

borNote

A calm note-taking app for macOS. Notes are plain Markdown files in a folder you own, so they stay readable without the app. Write in a clean WYSIWYG editor with no blocks, organize with Spaces and tags, search everything with full-text filters, and take meeting notes straight from your Mac’s calendar.

What’s interesting There’s no database and no account - the folder is the source of truth, and borNote picks up edits made outside the app. Sync is bring-your-own: keep the folder in iCloud Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive or Google Drive and let that provider’s app do the syncing.

Tauri
Rust
React
TypeScript
TipTap

Download ↗

Hearth's screensaver with the clock, a background photo, and the PIN-free groceries panel open

Hearth's full-screen weather report with an 8-day forecast, wind, UV, and air quality

Web Home LAN only

Hearth

A locked family calendar and household dashboard for the kitchen wall. Runs on a wall-mounted tablet, served from a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W on the home network - each family member gets a PIN-locked profile with their own calendars, shared tasks, and a grocery list.

What’s interesting The kitchen is a semi-public room, so the calendar itself stays behind a PIN - but music and the grocery list are the deliberate exceptions, reachable straight from the screensaver with no PIN at all. A one-tap Guest mode swaps real household photos for generic stock ones, and light/dark follows the sun, computed locally from sunrise/sunset so the theme never depends on a network call. Tapping the screensaver's hourly forecast strip opens a full-screen weather report - multi-day outlook, wind, UV, and air quality - sourced from Open-Meteo, which needs no API key at all.

SvelteKit
Raspberry Pi
Google Calendar
Todoist
Open-Meteo

GitHub ↗

Web Live · borna.hopto.org/football-data

Ask Football

A queryable football database you can ask questions of in plain English. Type something like “Mbappé goals at the 2022 World Cup” and an LLM translates it to SQL and runs it - covering the top 5 European leagues since 2010, every World Cup since 1930, and Euro, Copa América, and European club competitions.

What’s interesting Seven different open data sources, each with its own naming quirks, reconciled into one MySQL schema. Generated SQL is validated (single SELECT only, keyword denylist, forced read-only transaction) before it ever runs, and successful queries are cached so a repeat question never re-hits the LLM - a template-substitution layer even reuses a cached query for a new one that only swaps the team or season.

FastAPI
MySQL
Gemini
Python
GitHub Actions

Visit site ↗

Web Chrome

Job Tracker

A personal job-search cockpit: browse and edit interview Q&A answers, and track every application pulled from a Notion workspace, enriched with the matching Gmail threads (confirmations, rejections, interview invites). A companion Chrome extension shows the stage of any job posting you’re viewing as a colored dot on the toolbar.

What’s interesting Node/Express glued to two real integrations - the Notion API and the Gmail API. The extension writes new jobs straight into a structured Notion database, so saving a posting while browsing and reviewing it later are the same source of truth.

Node.js
Express
Notion API
Gmail API
Chrome Extension

GitHub ↗

Android On Google Play

Bahá’í Prayers

An Android app for exploring and reading prayers organized by category, each with author and word count, HTML-rendered text, and beautiful imagery. Users can even upload and crop their own images for any prayer.

What’s interesting Privacy-first by design - it uses the modern, permission-less Android Photo Picker, so it never asks for storage access. Built in Kotlin with a CI/CD pipeline on Jenkins and Bitrise, and published on Google Play.

Kotlin
Android
Jenkins
Bitrise

Visit site ↗

Event Tracker board showing a Movie Night event with fictional families

Web Local-first

Event Tracker

A local-only Kanban board for organizing family and community events - started as a movie night tracker, now generalized to any event type. Movie Night and Service Project ship built in, or define your own with custom fields. Drag each family’s card across six columns - To Invite through Attended - and archive the whole event to History with one click, ready for the next one.

What’s interesting Zero npm dependencies, running on Node 22’s built-in node:sqlite and global fetch. Event types are pluggable - each just declares its own extra fields and whether it gets a TMDB-backed Watchlist (Movie Night) or a plain Ideas list (everything else) - while the board, History, and Families tab work identically underneath regardless of type.

Node 22
node:sqlite
TMDB API
Vanilla JS

GitHub ↗

macOS Open source

Now Playing

A macOS menu bar app that shows whatever track is currently playing - Music, Spotify, Podcasts, a browser tab, anything - right in the menu bar, with playback controls (play/pause, previous, next) one click away.

What’s interesting No Xcode project needed - it’s built and bundled entirely from the command line via Swift Package Manager. A background process streams live updates from the media-control CLI (a wrapper around macOS’s private MediaRemote framework) and parses them incrementally as JSON arrives, with artwork cached separately so it doesn’t flicker on the brief gap between tracks.

Swift
Combine
AppKit
Swift Package Manager

GitHub ↗

Web Live · activitymapper.hopto.org

Activity Mapper

A geocoding tool for visualizing community activity locations on a map. Import a CSV or XLSX of addresses and activities, and it plots color-coded pins by category, with a neighborhood filter and built-in checks for activities missing a facilitator or an unmatched address.

What’s interesting Runs with no backend of its own - geocoding requests go straight from the browser to Mapbox, and nothing is persisted anywhere. That also means the screenshot above is sample data I generated myself, not anything imported by a real user.

React
Google Maps API
Mapbox
XLSX/CSV parsing

Visit site ↗

Chrome Open source

Football Match Tracker

A Chrome extension inspired by the FotMob mobile widget: upcoming fixtures for your favorite clubs and national teams, grouped by date, with crests, kick-off times, live scores, and a toolbar badge counting today’s matches. Configurable kickoff notifications keep you posted in the background.

What’s interesting It stitches two data sources - football-data.org for fixtures and FotMob for live scores - and caches results for an hour to stay within free-tier rate limits. Match filtering and date logic are covered by a Jest test suite.

JavaScript
Chrome Extension
REST APIs
Jest

GitHub ↗

Web Live · bahaiprograms.hopto.org

Holy Day & Feast Program Generator

Generates randomized devotional reading programs for Bahá’í Holy Days and Nineteen Day Feasts. Pick an event, set the number of readings and a maximum length, and it assembles a print-ready program - readings distributed round-robin across authors, with reading-time estimates and a full admin CMS behind it.

What’s interesting PHP 8.5 + MySQL on vanilla PDO, with a real deployment pipeline: merging to main runs the PHPUnit suite and, only if it passes, auto-deploys to a DigitalOcean LAMP droplet via GitHub Actions. No manual steps.

PHP 8.5
MySQL
GitHub Actions
DigitalOcean

Visit site ↗

Web Live · theaqdas.org

Kitáb-i-Aqdas Study Companion

A cross-referenced study website for the Kitáb-i-Aqdas that links the Synopsis & Codification to the underlying verses, questions-and-answers, and explanatory notes - turning a dense text into something you can actually navigate.

What’s interesting A hand-built concordance connecting hundreds of passages, written in vanilla PHP with no framework - and still held to a professional bar with PHPStan static analysis and a PHPUnit test suite. It’s been quietly serving readers at theaqdas.org for years.

PHP
PHPStan
PHPUnit
Vanilla JS

Visit site ↗

Android On Google Play

Ruhi Quote Memorizer

An Android app for memorizing sacred writings from the Ruhi books. Drill down from books to quotes into a distraction-free memorization viewer, with search and full light/dark support.

What’s interesting Kotlin/Android held to a strict engineering workflow: every change goes through a branch and pull request, and merges are gated on both unit and instrumented tests passing in CI. Shipped on Google Play.

Kotlin
Android
CI Tests

Visit site ↗

Things I build for myself.
And others.

Personal projects