Mike Whelan

I built GetPDF because most PDF apps I used were slow, bloated, or required uploading documents for tasks that should work locally. I wanted an app that was fast, private, and reliable on mobile. GetPDF started as a simple viewer, and as I used it I kept adding the features I felt were missing: scanning, file conversion, annotation, OCR, and offline tools. Throughout the process, the goal was...

Relaunching after some big updates. Since finding myself out of work for the first time in a very long time, I really wanted to find a project to work on. I decided after writing my millionth cover letter that I wanted to create something that would make it easier to do. And this TailoredCV.app was born. I spent the past week designing and redesigning everything so that it would be as user...

I recently found myself out of work after four years as a Software Engineer. During that time my passion for building things faded. After long days at a screen, the last thing I wanted to do was spend evenings coding. With some free time now, I’ve rediscovered that spark for creating useful web apps. One problem I kept running into was job applications. Every role wanted a perfectly tailored...

Hi folks, I’m Mike, I put Quickburn together after using a few of these tools in work and finding them slow with lots of ads and not very clear about what was happening with the data. I like building small things like this as a way to learn something new and hopefully make something useful at the same time. Quickburn is quick, simple and straight up. You make a one time link, send it on, and...