Rive Foundry
My workshop in Geneva, where I build my products. This website is its home.
Rive is the district in the centre of Geneva, by the lake. A foundry is a factory, the place where things get made. Everything on this site was made here.
What gets made here
Home stack
Cameras and photos
- Lightbox
AI photo sorting for a self-hosted library, with keep scores and duplicate stacks.
- Lodestar
An iPhone and iPad app that sets up a Sony camera from one sentence and takes the shot.
- Retouch Studio
Bulk AI photo retouching for a whole shoot, with presets and a zip download.
Ideas in the works
For the family
- Babytalk
An iOS app that tells stories and sings songs to young children in a parent's voice.
- Birth announcement site
A bilingual family website built in a week to announce a birth and gather the replies.
- Family recipe website
An interactive family recipe website with search, cooking checklists and scaling.
Tech people
- Romandy CTO
The bilingual platform behind a peer network of senior tech leaders in Romandy.
- Haystack
A Swiss-led tech recruitment agency that finds the right engineer or tech leader.
- Emineon
A consulting and talent company with an English and French site and a daily blog.
- Emineon OS
An AI-native ATS and CRM for recruiters, with CV parsing, matching and a copilot.
How I work
It starts with my own problem
Neonduck runs my errands, Dbrain remembers things for me and Lightbox sorts my photos. I use them every day, and when one works really well, I turn it into a product.
Ask before acting
For actions like sending, paying, deleting or taking a photo, my apps wait for a tap from the user. When the AI changes something, you see the change and the reason for it, and where I can, there's an Undo button.
My data stays at home
Personal data stays on hardware its owner controls. For me that's a NAS behind a tunnel. Each Neonduck customer gets their own isolated server, and if they delete the account, the server is deleted too.
This website
The website is a project of its own. A particle field turns into my portrait, an astronaut, a globe, the lake and a star map as you scroll. One file of facts feeds every page and the structured data, and the site has a sitemap, llms.txt and IndexNow submissions so search engines and AI tools can read it too.
- A particle field that changes shape as you scroll
- One file of facts used by the pages and the JSON-LD
- llms.txt, a sitemap and IndexNow for search engines and AI tools
Looking to hire?
Rive Foundry is where I build things. If you are hiring tech people or looking for your next role, that is Haystack.
Say hello.
A few lines are enough.