Ever since I was a kid, all I've wanted to do is make things and share them with other people. Below are some of the things I've made, and companies I've worked with. If you want to get in touch, send an email to paulstraw@paulstraw.com, or message me on Twitter @paulstraw. This website is statically generated with Nuxt, and hosted on Netlify. It's open sourced under the MIT license, and available on GitHub
Making tools to help local furniture boutiques develop and maintain a web presence. I do everything from product design, to frontend (Vue/Nuxt), to backend (Elixir), to writing and shooting marketing videos.
Click to learn more and buy on Steam! Build voxel worlds in virtual reality. Microcosm lets you place up to 512×256×516 (over 67 million) voxels however you'd like. Choose from solid, transparent, and light-emitting voxels to build the worlds you've always dreamed of.
Click to play now in your browser! Created in 48 hours for Ludum Dare 42. Can you get to the top of this crumbling world?
Click to play now in your browser! Created in 48 hours for Ludum Dare 38. Booster's Day Out is the first game I publicly released. It's a physics-based, action-y, puzzle-y spaceflight journey. It's also absurdly difficult, good luck!
A fun, impractical, blocky typeface. I made Nybble for use as a headline font in my own games and designs. It's a public domain release, click to learn more and download it.
Maintained client libraries for many different languages/frameworks, and built open-source tools to help developers work with images more effectively. Handled community management and engagement.
Software development podcast, co-hosted with Sean Washington for over two years and 130 episodes on the Spec podcast network.
Development team lead, client relationship and project management, web application architecture and development.
Placeholder image nouns (people, places, and things), powered by imgix and Unsplash.
Apartment and classifieds newsletter app with a New York City focus. Built and launched the product from end-to-end; design and development.
Mobile app user interaction prototype design and development.
Generate smart, responsive social network images that help your whole site look better in just a few clicks, powered by imgix.
Development support and integration with internal development teams for over three years.
Buildout of custom ecommerce and inventory management systems. Ongoing maintenance, features, and devops for a year after launch.
Homepage animation design and implementation.
Full site buildout including payment, reviewer/investor messaging, and JavaScript image redaction/annotation tool. Initial MVP developed and launched in four weeks.
Complete redesign implementation and upgrade to Rails 4. Refactoring and migration of existing production database schema.
Mobile app user interaction prototype design and development.
Easily add "zoom on hover" functionality to your site's images. Lightweight, no-dependency JavaScript.
A simple, lightweight, no-dependencies JavaScript lightbox.