Personal Projects
Side ventures built outside insurance and consulting — some because the gap was obvious, some because the problem was interesting enough to demand an answer.
WhiskyPolska.pl
Polish whisky prices are scattered across dozens of shops with no single place to compare them — so I built one. Ten scraper processes run daily against major Polish spirits retailers, landing results in a SQLite database (WAL mode): 3,200+ whiskies, deduplicated brand records, cask-type and peat tagging, Whiskybase community ratings integrated. A Node.js/Express frontend serves search, filters, and price history. Running on a shared Hetzner CX22 VPS.
Stack: Python 3 · Requests + BeautifulSoup · SQLite (WAL) · Node.js 24 / Express · EJS
Status: In development — VPS deployment and public launch planned H2 2026
MonikaGucwa.com
A therapist who needed a calm, professional home online and a simple path for bilingual clients to reach her. Bilingual (EN/PL), contact form via Netlify Forms, structured data for SEO, GA4 analytics. Brief to deployment in a single focused session.
Stack: Astro 6 · Tailwind CSS 4 · Netlify · Cormorant Garamond + Inter
Status: Live
EchoInsight.Me
An AI guidance platform — empathetic conversations in 16 languages, powered by Google Gemini, freemium model. Built under my company Jakub Kolada Solutions (Jakub.Solutions).
Stack: Next.js 15 · Python · Google Cloud Run · Firestore · Gemini 2.5 Flash
Status: In development — launch planned H2 2026
The Craft
A friendly, multilingual wrapper for The Craft — a set of principles for building applications with Claude. It turns the rulebook into plain language for business readers and beginners: a guided landing page, a chapter reader with table of contents and rewritten internal links, and a one-click download of the whole Codex to drop into your own project. Shares the jakub.solutions brand and palette, with view transitions and light/dark mode. Polish first, i18n-ready.
Stack: Astro 5 · no UI framework · hand-rolled brand CSS · adm-zip · Lucide
Status: In development — launching at thecraft.jakub.solutions