Building at the edge of possibility

Hello, I’m Alvin.
I turn ideas into
useful things.

I build focused products from ideas, personal needs, and everyday friction. This is where I share the things I have brought into the world—and what I am exploring next.

Portrait of Alvin Loh
Curious by default

01 / About

Ideas deserve the chance to become real.

I work across technology and independent product building, creating small tools that make something complicated feel calmer, clearer, or more useful.

Some projects begin with a frustration I have encountered myself. Others begin with curiosity and the feeling that a particular thing ought to exist. I try to give each idea its smallest honest form, release it, and learn from what happens next.

For me, usefulness can begin with one person. A project does not need to become a large business to justify being made—but once it is public, reality can help decide how it should continue.

02 / Selected work

Things I’ve built

Small, focused products that begin with an idea, a personal need, or a piece of everyday friction—and are built to make the web a little more useful.

Focus tool

One Thing at a Time

An ADHD-friendly task app that reduces overwhelm by keeping one thing in focus. Its AI-powered Salami Slicer turns a daunting task into small, concrete next steps, with a timer available when structure helps.

It was made to replace the pressure of a long to-do list with a calmer question: what is the one thing to do now?

  • One-task focus
  • Task breakdown
  • Focus timer
Visit One Thing at a Time
Privacy-first utility

Attendance Sheets

A private, browser-based tool that turns a spreadsheet roster into polished, multi-day attendance sheets. Customise sessions and layouts, preview every page, and export a print-ready PDF without an account or participant-data upload.

I built it after noticing how much repetitive formatting was required to turn participant lists into clean, usable forms. The work stays in the browser, where sensitive roster data belongs.

  • Local-first
  • PDF export
  • Print-ready
Visit Attendance Sheets

03 / In real time

What I’m
doing now.

A live window into what I’m building, learning, and thinking about. These notes are powered by GetWigee and published directly from Markdown.

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