Hey

Thanks for checking me out. I'm Daniel Breedeveld. Born and raised Dutch🇳🇱, and moved over to Australia🇦🇺 in 2019 because I'm a good dad.

Mission

My mission is simple: Make local, on-device AI available to the masses. Any device, any platform. Privacy friendly, dev friendly, and without depending on internet connectivity. Along this journey, I demonstrate my work on platforms like YouTube.com/@BrutalCoding while I make more progress and work out my idea's into tangible products. It's working today, on any major platform including mobile and desktop.

Look, I love buildings out my ideas, even more so if I can open source this while making it sustainable.

There's a huge potential, at least in my view, to make this type of product accessible to the masses that have no clue about GitHub, command line, SDK's, bash/shell scripts and so forth.

Why Becoming a Sponsor

No, it's not about the sponsorship badge you get or other digital goodies. To bring it very simple: I rather make a living this way then work on proprietary software. Having sponsorships to support my work would encourage others like me to build products out in the open as well. It's a win-win for everyone.

Your sponsorship would help me convince myself, my family, my friends and especially my landlord that I'm not crazy for doing this.

Flutter & Dart

What is Flutter? The name of a cross-platform UI framework backed by Google. The actual programming language behind this is called Dart, also developed by Google. It's similar to C# and Java, but tailored towards Flutter which is a huge benefit.

Relocated from NL to AU

Days before the pandemic started, I flew from the Netherlands (home) to Australia for a 'holiday' with my son (baby at that time). Suddenly, Australia had one of the strictest lockdowns in the world. Flying back home was not an option. Being me, I adapted and aimed to get back to work by finding a new job there.

Passion for AI, Career in Flutter

Once I was settled in Australia, I applied for several AI related roles without success (ML Engineering / Data Engineering). Didn't even get to an interview. I blame my visa at the time. Thus, looking at the Aussie start-up scene, I figured out I could make a living by building apps in Flutter. Lucky me, I had been tinkering with Flutter since 2018 for fun which makes finding jobs easier.