Thomas McCarthy

Thomas McCarthy

MusicLibMusicLib
Founder of MusicLib Sheet Music Library
MusicLib
Stripe powers all of MusicLib's subscription billing — individual plans, institutional capacity packs, and webhook-driven lifecycle management. The documentation is best-in-class and the customer portal saved me from building an entire billing management UI from scratch.

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MusicLib
MusicLib's native iPad app is powered by Capacitor from the Ionic team. It let me take a React web app and ship it as a real native iOS app with native HTTP, keychain storage, and File Provider integration — without rewriting anything in Swift.

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MusicLib
Resend handles all of MusicLib's transactional emails — verification, password resets, reservation confirmations. Clean API, great deliverability, took about 15 minutes to integrate.

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MusicLib
Built with serious help from Claude Code by Anthropic. Having an AI coding partner that understands your entire codebase made it possible to ship a full-stack app with a native iPad build as a solo developer.

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