Projects

pickaru showcase — “Swipe to pick a movie, show, dinner or board game — together”, with the app swiping movie cards on two phones

pickaru

A group-decision app for nights in and nights out. Deal a deck of movies, shows, cravings or board games, and the whole crew swipes their way to tonight's pick.

  • Next.js
  • Realtime parties
  • TMDB & BGG data
Visit pickaru.com →

Kinlight

A family archive, generations deep. Interactive 3D family trees from the historical record — the British royal line, the Roman and Byzantine emperors, the Habsburgs, the Greek gods — plus a private GEDCOM viewer for building your own.

  • 3D tree view
  • GEDCOM
  • Local-first
Visit kinlight.org →
Kinlight showcase — the 3D royal family tree, the library of dynasties and the build-your-own-tree panel, arranged over antique books
Little Songbook showcase — “Traditional songs, beautifully kept”: the home page, the Frère Jacques song page and the songbook browser amid botanical illustrations

Little Songbook

Traditional children's songs from around the world — lullabies, counting rhymes and dancing songs, with original lyrics, English translations and the sourced story behind each one. Published in eight languages.

  • Astro
  • 8 languages
  • Static & fast
Visit littlesongbook.com →

CupUnit

A cups-to-grams cooking converter that's honest about cup standard, ingredient density and rounding, with every figure sourced. In 24 European languages, and it works with JavaScript off.

  • Astro
  • 24 languages
  • Works without JS
Visit cupunit.com →
CupUnit showcase — “Cups to grams, without the guesswork”: the converter, its sourced density details and a whole-recipe conversion over baking ingredients
Yarn Diary showcase — “Your crochet, beautifully organized”: the Pink Robin project on laptop and tablet beside the finished amigurumi robin

Yarn Diary

An offline crochet project tracker. Scan a pattern with your phone camera, tick off rounds as you stitch, and keep photos of every part next to the instructions that made them. Everything stays on your device, with optional sync into your own Google Drive.

  • PWA
  • On-device OCR
  • Drive sync
Visit yarndiary.com →

Charted Voyages

An illustrated atlas of the great voyages — Magellan, Columbus, Marco Polo, Darwin, Odysseus — on an engraved interactive globe, with dated log entries, cited sources and route uncertainty kept visible.

  • WebGL globe
  • Zero dependencies
  • Sourced
Visit chartedvoyages.com →
Charted Voyages showcase — “History, mapped from the record”: the engraved globe, voyage ledgers and the Magellan chart on a dark map table
hushnap showcase — “Calmer nights. Softer sleep.”: the sound mixer with sleep timer on a phone, in a softly lit nursery scene

hushnap

A free white-noise and soothing-sound player for baby sleep, with fact-checked guides. Every sound is synthesised live in the browser with the Web Audio API — no audio files ship at all.

  • Next.js
  • Web Audio
  • 15 sounds
Visit hushnap.com →

StainSorted

A stain-removal decision engine: from stain and surface to a method where every step cites a real, recorded source. The build fails if anything is uncited, and where sources disagree it says so.

  • Eleventy
  • Every step cited
  • Shareable results
Visit stainsorted.com →
StainSorted showcase — “Sort it before the stain sets”: the home page, how-it-works steps and the sourced red-wine plan on wine-stained linen

Games

Stack Panic showcase — “One tap. One more block.”: a tower of pastel blocks stacked on a pedestal, one block mid-drop

Stack Panic

One tap, one more block. A pocket-sized reflex game — time each tap to stack the tower higher before it topples.

  • One-tap
  • Browser game
Play Stack Panic →

Work in progress

Things on the workbench — usable, but still taking shape.

Garden Planner

An evidence-aware companion-planting reference and bed planner. Every suggestion is source-linked and unknowns are shown as unknowns; the planting calendar and bed scoring are still growing.

Try the preview →

Freezer Planner

A food-storage reference where every duration is classified — safety guidance, best quality or your own plan — plus private in-browser tools for inventory, thawing and power outages. First version is up; more foods to come.

Try the preview →

About

I'm Maja Dobnik Kočevar, a software developer from Maribor, Slovenia. I like small, well-made things: apps that solve one problem properly, load fast, and respect the people using them. I design, build and run everything you see here myself.

Say hello

Questions, ideas, or just want to talk shop — my inbox is open.

dobnik.maja@gmail.com