Patrick Turner
I build small, careful apps for card nights, TV nights and game nights.
Scoring Spades
The scorepad for Spades. Enter each team’s bid and tricks, and it does the math: nil, blind nil, bags and the 100-point bag penalty. The table can argue about strategy instead of arithmetic.
- Set your own house rules for nil values, target score and partner bids
- Close the tab mid-game and pick up right where you left off
- Runs in any phone browser, with no download and no account
Free on the web.
Show Picker Club
Keep track of what you’re watching, and what the people you watch with are watching. Everyone keeps four lists: Watching, Awaiting, Loved and Next Up. Add a title and the artwork, cast, rating and next-season date fill themselves in.
- Private groups show you what your family and friends have on
- Premiere and finale dates land in your calendar
- See which streaming subscriptions you pay for but don’t use
Free on iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV and Apple Watch, or in your browser.
Parjamie
The classic race-home board game for two, rebuilt as a welding shop. The pawns wear welding helmets, the track is diamond-plate steel, and sending someone back to start throws sparks.
- Pass one iPhone back and forth, with two colors each
- Turn hints and a built-in guide for first-time players
- House rules, including shuffled safe squares
For iPhone. Now in beta and headed to the App Store.
About me
I started out writing Visual Basic, back when software still came in a box. From there I became a database architect on Microsoft SQL Server, designing the part of a system everything else leans on, then moved to the LAMP stack just as PHP on Linux servers was taking over the web. That was 15 years in corporate America, followed by 10 years owning a custom software development shop. All along the way, I consulted with SaaS companies, helping them turn ideas into software products people paid for.
I’m retired now, so I get to build exactly what I want. Usually that’s a small app that fixes a small annoyance: a scorepad so nobody fights over bags, a shared list so nobody asks “what should we watch?” for the third time, or a board game for someone who spends their days behind a welding helmet.
They’re free and simple, and each one gets the same care I gave paying clients.
- Background
- 15 years in corporate America, then 10 years running my own custom software shop
- Worked in
- Visual Basic, Microsoft SQL Server, then the LAMP stack
- Say hello
- patrick@patrickturner.net
- Code
- github.com/turnepf