Work

tudor is a web app for preparing for the Cambridge C1 Advanced (CAE) English exam. V1 covers two parts of it: Use of English, as objective drills, and Writing, where an essay comes back graded on the official four-criteria rubric. It’s multi-user and invite-only.

The name is the House of Tudor — 1485 to 1603, the stretch in which modern English was being forged. English heritage without the stuffiness.

The incumbents here are Cambridge’s own Write & Improve and Test & Train: authoritative, and dated. My bet is that a candidate really only wants one sentence answered at every moment — I always know where I stand and exactly what to fix — and that answering it well is mostly a design problem.

Status: In active development.

benejotad is this page right here. It’s a place I built for myself to have an space where I can write, showcase different projects and try new POCs and ideas I find cool (like the nownownow project).

It’s an exercise in friction-reduction turned on myself: instead of scattering across a portfolio, a blog, and a few dead profiles, there’s one voice and one place where they all interconnect. The build is deliberately spare — exposed grid, monospace, no accent color — so the work stays the loudest thing on the page.

Status: In active development — this site, evolving in public.

camusean is about reading literature in a language you’re still learning, without breaking the spell. The usual tools pull you out of the page: tap-to-translate hijacks your attention, parallel texts let you cheat without noticing, graded readers flatten the prose until it’s no longer the book.

camusean moves the lookup to your voice. You’re reading; you hit a word you don’t know; you say it aloud, and it hands back just enough — the meaning, maybe the root — without your eyes leaving the line. Voice keeps you in the text.

The whole bet is putting the friction in the right place: enough support to keep reading, not so much that you stop reading and start studying.

Status: In active development.

afiche answers a small, stubborn question: what’s playing in Buenos Aires cinemas right now, and which of it is worth the trip? The city’s listings live scattered across a dozen theatre sites, each with its own bad calendar — so the real friction isn’t choosing a film, it’s just finding out what’s on before you give up and stream something at home.

afiche pulls the screens of Buenos Aires into one place and treats them like a feed worth reading: what’s showing, where, and when. The aim is for it to feel closer to a friend with great taste telling you “there’s something worth seeing this week” than to a showtimes database.

Status: Live in production at afiche.ar — still evolving.