Tim Potter

001 — Hello

Designer, thinker & habitual tinkerer

I co-run Little Thunder, designing products, interfaces and websites. This is where I keep side projects, experiments and notes that don't fit neatly anywhere else.

Selected Projects · 002

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MegaWord

MegaWord is a Sega Mega Drive homebrew Wordle demake built with SGDK, custom pixel art workflows, AI tooling and real 16-bit hardware constraints.

  • Game design
  • Mega Drive
  • SGDK
  • Pixel art
  • Homebrew
  • Codex
  • ChatGPT

Year

2026

Status

In progress

MegaWord running on a CRT — the word SLICK guessed correctly in green tiles, against a tropical pixel-art beach background with palm trees and a starry sky.
02

Band Mate

Band Mate is a Logic Pro MIDI plugin for generating metalcore drum arrangements using band profiles, song sections and musician-focused workflow design.

  • Audio Unit
  • Logic Pro
  • MIDI
  • Metalcore
  • Codex

Year

2026

Status

In progress

Band Mate plugin running inside Logic Pro. The Arrange view showing a 78-bar Polaris-inspired song structure with Intro, Verse, Chorus, Blast and Breakdown sections.
03

Ceefax

Rebuilding a broadcast-era interface for the modern web. Live football data wrapped in block colours, Mode 7 typography and just enough CRT glow to feel familiar again.

  • Teletext
  • Retro UI
  • Football
  • Netlify
  • Vanilla JS
  • API

Year

2026

Status

Launched

Ceefax football section — Premier League standings page in classic teletext block colours and Mode 7 typography.

Recent Writing · 003

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Life Beyond the Feed

On personal websites, owning your own corner of the internet, and why authenticity is becoming more valuable than reach.

MVP to Meaningful

AI has made it easier than ever to ship an MVP. But MVPs are not the finished article. They're proofs of possibility. The real climb begins when you try to make something meaningful that people actually want to use.

Claude Design, Google Stitch and why design is most certainly "not cooked"

The launch of Claude for Design and Google Stitch sparked another wave of "design is cooked" takes. I think the opposite is true. AI is raising the baseline, but it's also making taste, judgement and original thinking more valuable than ever.

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