Jaron HeardLet’s talk ↗︎

Questions, made into projects.

A few projects, and the questions behind them.

2024 · Founder / Design / Build

Soonlist

How can we get out to IRL events more and scroll less?

A community-supported app that turns event screenshots into plans to share.

10,000+ events saved

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2025 · Design / Build

EZ Pilot Apps

What if pilots could spend less time applying and more time flying?

A pilot profile and browser extension for airline applications, made with airline captain and Ready 4 Pushback host Nik Fialka.

250+ fields per airline application, filled once

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2026 · Dream / Design / Build

Protocontent

What if the things we made with AI could leave the chat?

A tool that turned agent-made prototypes, plans, and other files into live pages you could open and share.

Live, shareable pages for AI-made work, before most AI tools had them.

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2023–2026 · Dream / Host / Organize / Build

School of Art and Time

What if we made a little more room for each other?

Helped turn my loft into a community space for dinners, workshops, and creative collaboration.

~150 Tuesday dinners over three years, with hundreds of guests

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2023 · Design / Build / Lead

air.health

What if we could see the air around us?

Led the design and build of Aclima’s public platform for block-by-block air quality data.

Featured in The Washington Post ↗︎

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2022 · Dream / Design / Build

PostPostcard

What if a moment together came back in the mail?

A tool for sending 6 × 9-inch photo postcards as easily as an email.

Hundreds of postcards sent.

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2020 · Design / Build

Cellular Chorus

What if a room full of phones became a chorus?

A website that turns participants’ phones into a shared instrument, with sounds and colors by Patricia Wolf.

Played at organized events and impromptu gatherings across at least four countries.

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2019 · Design / Build / Lead

Small Donor Elections Portland

What if a city’s politics belonged to more of its people?

An open-source donation-management app and public dashboard for Portland’s small-donor matching program.

Launched in six months. Supporting Portland’s small-donor elections since 2020.

Open Elections Portland ↗︎

2019 · Design / Build / Lead

CIVIC Platform

What if building public technology were a public effort?

Led design and data visualization across five project teams and was the shared platform’s top code contributor.

1,000+ Hack Oregon contributors building shared public-data tools

2016 · Dream / Build

Original skateboard emoji proposal

What if skateboarding wasn’t left out?

Researched and submitted the proposal that became the skateboard emoji.

1B+ phones have had it since 2018