About me
I’m Gideon Appau. I design and build products, write about the journey, and care about craft. Chess helps me think. Music and poetry keep things human.
Product engineering Writing Design
Available for light collabs
Takoradi, Ghana
3+ yrs building 20+ projects Notes in progress
Now
- Shipping portfolio updates and writing more
- Building Larry SMS Hub and MarketMate
- Collecting messy ideas in public
A few things I like
TypeScript Astro Tailwind React Native Postgres MongoDB Figma
Hobbies
Music production Chess Poetry Playing instruments Mobile photography Videography
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Lost
Gideon Appau
“Build with care. Keep it simple. Make it useful.”
Highlights
- 2025 — Building Clink (digital ledger for Takoradi merchants), shaping MarketMate, and supporting Larry SMS Hub
- 2024 — Launched the messy ideas page and rebuilt this portfolio in Astro
- Earlier — Built small tools, wrote notes, and learned in public
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