Seattle · Building since the 1990s

Hi, I'm David. I ship things.

Founder, developer and volunteer firefighter. I build mobile apps web platforms companies tools for first responders things people actually use

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David Geller smiling in a fire station, a red fire engine behind him.

Spryly ✦ FireTrex ✦ Straight Stick ✦ Rx Label Scanner ✦ ECG Trainer ✦ Dwell Secure ✦ TapRate ✦ Hoster ✦ Eyejot ✦ WhatCounts ✦ AI Atlas ✦ Plat Viewer ✦ MoveItHere ✦ Claude Monitor ✦ Podcast Showrunner ✦ PSE Guide ✦ Contractor Check ✦ First Layer ✦ Bench ✦ Spryly ✦ FireTrex ✦ Straight Stick ✦ Rx Label Scanner ✦ ECG Trainer ✦ Dwell Secure ✦ TapRate ✦ Hoster ✦ Eyejot ✦ WhatCounts ✦ AI Atlas ✦ Plat Viewer ✦ MoveItHere ✦ Claude Monitor ✦ Podcast Showrunner ✦ PSE Guide ✦ Contractor Check ✦ First Layer ✦ Bench ✦

0+years building software

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0successful exit (WhatCounts, 2010)

The work

Nineteen projects. Flip a card.

Hover (or tap) any card to turn it over for the story, the links and the download buttons.

2023 →

Spryly

Digital contact cards that do more than a business card ever could. Share who you are with one QR code.

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Spryly

The easiest way to share your contact info, social networks and passions. Create multiple cards for different personas, embed video and rich content, collect data with forms, and see who's viewing.

Contact, video, story, event and data-collection cards
Self-destructing QR codes and privacy controls
PRO tier with design freedom and AI-powered analytics

spryly.com ↗ Web app

2017 →

FireTrex

Staffing, training records and mobile apps for fire departments, EMS and the clinicians who back them up.

Fire servicePartneriOSAndroid

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FireTrex

A small studio building software for the unglamorous hours. I met founder Dave Monahan in 2017 as a volunteer firefighter at one of the agencies FireTrex served; we've been partners since 2024. FireTrex has helped more than 50 departments move to electronic record-keeping.

FireTrex Staffing, Responder and training platforms
NV Impact: Nevada fire certification study aids
Rx Label Scanner, ECG Trainer and Responder

firetrex.com ↗

2026 →

Straight Stick

A firefighter-led podcast I host with Andrew Leith. Real stories from the front lines of fire, EMS and disaster response.

PodcastFire & EMSCo-host

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Straight Stick

Two working firefighters talk through what emergencies are really like. Firsthand experience mixed with practical advice on preparedness and the realities of the job.

Hosted by David Geller and Andrew Leith
Guests from medicine, wildland fire and rescue
Recent episodes: cold water emergencies, wildland firefighting

Apple Podcasts ↗ Spotify ↗

2025 →

Rx Label Scanner

Point your camera at a prescription bottle. Get the name, dosage, drug class, interactions and refill info in seconds.

iOSOn-device AIMedical

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Rx Label Scanner

Scan the label, skip the typing. On-device AI reads the bottle, then pulls in structured information: generic alternatives, warnings, expiration and directions, all grouped automatically by patient. Scan history never leaves the phone.

Multiple bottles in one pass, camera or video
Interactions and warnings flagged before dosing
No accounts, no uploads, no dashboards

Learn more ↗

2026

ECG Trainer

Drill rhythms until it's muscle memory. Sinus, blocks, tachy, flutter, fib, agonal, one strip at a time, in your browser or on iOS.

WebiOSClinical training

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ECG Trainer

Rhythms are presented one at a time at varying rates and artifact levels. You identify; the tool explains what's actually going on: rate, regularity, P waves, QRS, PR. For paramedic students, nursing programs, EMS refreshers and cardiology rotations.

Clinically representative waveforms, not textbook loops
Study, quiz, timed and explain modes with progress tracking
Every rhythm you're expected to know, from sinus to asystole

Start training ↗ About

Rebuilt 2026

Dwell Secure

Know your home. Know you're safe. Document what matters about your property and share it when it counts.

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Dwell Secure

Founded by a fire captain. The app existed before I joined; I rewrote it from the ground up to be more functional, modern and performant. Homeowners, renters and property managers map utility shutoffs, track appliances and warranties, and securely share it with family, tenants or first responders.

Interactive property map: gas, water, electrical panel
Community Connect shares vital info with your fire department
Complete rewrite: new architecture, new UI, faster everywhere

dwellsecure.com ↗

2015 →

TapRate

Count a pulse. Tap. Read the rate. Heart and respiratory rates on iPhone and Apple Watch, no stopwatch required.

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TapRate

Written for the back of a rig, now used in clinics, classrooms and veterinary practices. Tap each beat or breath; the rate settles as you go. Works offline, no account, no ads, no data collected.

Haptic feedback on Apple Watch so eyes stay on the patient
CPR metronome and round timer with spoken cues
Condition Guide: 16 presentations with expected vitals

Learn more ↗

2026

Hoster

A self-hosted web platform in a single Linux binary. Every upload is a version. Ships with an MCP server for AI tools.

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Hoster

Runs on a Raspberry Pi behind a Cloudflare Tunnel or on any VPS. Multi-site, multi-tenant, with a web admin panel, snapshot and rollback, local analytics in SQLite and an optional JSON-driven CMS. This very page is served by it.

ZIP upload, instant deploy, one-click rollback
SPA detection and custom domains via host aliases
Full MCP content-management surface for Claude Code

GitHub ↗

2007 – 2020s

Eyejot

One of the first browser-based video mail platforms. Launched at DEMO 2007, long before everyone had a webcam.

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Eyejot

Co-founded in Seattle with Daryn Nakhuda. Record and send video messages from any browser, then from iPhone, iPad and Android. Video business cards, AWS-powered from the early days, and an unfunded company that ran for more than a decade before signing off.

Introduced at DEMO 2007
iPhone and Android apps in 2011
Eyejot, Inc. still publishes my apps today

eyejot.com ↗ GeekWire Q&A

2000 – 2010

WhatCounts

An email publishing platform seeded with $50K of my own money, grown organically, and acquired in December 2010.

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WhatCounts

Ten years as founder and CEO of a Seattle email marketing company. I ran product and engineering while co-founder Brian Ratzliff ran sales and marketing. No outside capital, a real business, and a successful sale to Mansell Group and Riverside in December 2010.

Bootstrapped from a $50K seed
Enterprise email publishing for brands and publishers
Acquired December 2010

AVC case study ↗

2026

The AI Atlas

A citizen's field guide to AI: who builds it, what it costs, why people are worried, and how to write your representatives.

WebCivic300+ sources

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The AI Atlas

Seven sections in plain language: Companies, Models, How It Works, Impacts, Risks, Policy and Voice. Every figure links to a primary source, with verified facts labeled apart from reported claims and projections.

Profiles of 30+ developers and their models
Maps of U.S. data centers and state regulations
A message-drafting tool for contacting officials

Open the Atlas ↗

2026

King County Plat Viewer

Look up any King County parcel in seconds: value, lot size, zoning, hazards and districts. Public data, made fast on a phone.

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King County Plat Viewer

An independent tool for researching land records and property boundaries in King County, Washington. Appraised values, lot sizes, zoning and every hazard or district that applies to a parcel, searchable from your phone. Not affiliated with King County.

Instant parcel search
Hazards, districts and zoning at a glance
Built for responders, buyers and the curious

Open Plat Viewer ↗

2026

MoveItHere

Your windows should come to you. A macOS menu-bar utility that brings any app to the Desktop you're already on.

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MoveItHere

Born of a daily irritation: seven Desktops and one wandering Terminal window. Press one hotkey, type a few letters, hit Return. Zero permissions, SIP stays on, about 600 KB, MIT licensed.

Spotlight-style picker that prioritizes strays
No Accessibility or Screen Recording prompts
Universal binary for Apple Silicon and Intel

Site ↗ Download for macOS

2026

Claude Monitor

A tiny macOS menu-bar app that gets your attention when Claude Code finishes, needs input or hits an error. Even from another display.

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Claude Monitor

Claude Code posts hook events to a local HTTP listener; the crab in your menu bar does the rest. Pick any mix of a screen-edge flash on every display, a HAL-flavored spoken announcement, a system sound, a notification, or a crab that scuttles across the screen with the message. Builds from source in about a minute, never touches the network, MIT licensed.

One-click hook install into ~/.claude/settings.json
Menu bar lists every active session and its last message
Stays quiet while you're already looking at Claude

GitHub ↗ Install guide

2026

Podcast Showrunner

Manage multiple podcast shows, episodes and guests in one place. Production for people who run more than one show.

Web appPWAPlatform

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Podcast Showrunner

A platform for running podcasts like productions: shows, episodes, guests and schedules in one installable web app that works on the phone as well as the desk.

Multiple shows under one roof
Episode planning and guest management
Installs as a progressive web app

Open Showrunner ↗

2026

Power & the Sound

Your power bill just went up again. Here's why. A field guide for Puget Sound Energy customers, built from public filings.

WebCivicData

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Power & the Sound

Where the electricity comes from, what it costs, who owns PSE, and what a public utility would take. Eleven years of rate history, generation-mix comparisons against Seattle City Light, rebates, assistance programs and how to speak up at UTC hearings.

Interactive cost and generation comparisons
Case studies on public-utility conversions
Built entirely from regulatory filings

Read the guide ↗

2026

Washington Contractor Check

Is your contractor really licensed? Check any Washington contractor's L&I registration, bond and insurance before you sign or pay.

WebPWAPublic data

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Washington Contractor Check

An independent L&I license search for homeowners. Look up any Washington contractor by name or registration number and see in seconds whether their license is active, bonded and insured. Public state data, made fast on a phone. Not affiliated with the State of Washington.

Registration, bond and insurance at a glance
Search by name, phone, UBI or license number
Installs as a progressive web app

Check a contractor ↗

2026

First Layer

What 3D printer reviewers actually concluded. Verdicts from 25 independent YouTube reviewers on 126 printers, side by side.

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First Layer

Before you buy a 3D printer, hear from the people who tested it. Every verdict links to the moment in the video where the reviewer said it, so you can check the context yourself. FDM and resin, sorted by most reviewed, most recommended or newest.

25 reviewers, from CNC Kitchen to Uncle Jessy
Recommends, with caveats or advises against
Fresh reviews surfaced as they publish

Open First Layer ↗

2026

Bench

Every Project Farm test, searchable. 410 head-to-head product tests since 2017 and 4,000+ products. See who won each one.

WebCatalogProject Farm

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Bench

Project Farm buys every product he tests and takes no sponsorships. Nine years of that is a lot of answers buried in a lot of video. Bench is the official index: searchable, sorted by category and brand, and linked straight to what won.

Latest tests with lab data and winners
Browse by category, from motor oil to chainsaws
Official site of Project Farm, LLC

Open Bench ↗

The story so far

Three decades, one thread.

Build the smallest thing that solves the problem well. Then ship it.

1990s

LapLink and the move west

I move to Washington State to work at LapLink, moving files between PCs just as the Internet is being born.

1995

Web Wizard: The Duke of URL

Shareware I wrote on the side while at LapLink. It asked beginners a few questions and wrote their HTML for them, on Windows 3.1. Thirty years on, I wrote about it ↗

Late '90s

Starwave

Director of Engineering at Starwave, Paul Allen's company, building some of the web's first big sites.

Dot-com era

Altrec

On to the startup Altrec, where we created one of the first online direct-ship e-tailers for outdoor enthusiasts.

2000

WhatCounts is born

An email publishing platform started with $50K of my own money. Ten years of bootstrapped growth as founder and CEO.

2007

Eyejot launches at DEMO

Co-founded with Daryn Nakhuda. Video mail from any browser, years before it was normal to talk to a webcam.

2010

The exit

WhatCounts is acquired by Mansell Group and Riverside. Full attention turns to Eyejot.

2015

TapRate 1.0

The first version of TapRate hits the App Store, written for EMTs who count pulses in the back of a moving rig.

2017

The firehouse

As a volunteer firefighter I meet Dave Monahan of FireTrex. We start building mobile staffing tools together.

2021

Dwell Secure

A fire captain's idea becomes an app for iOS and Android that helps families document their homes for emergencies. In 2026 I rewrote it from scratch.

2023

Spryly ships

Digital contact cards on iOS, Android and the web. The business card, reinvented.

2024

FireTrex partnership

The working relationship with Monahan is formalized. FireTrex 2026 rebuilds the platform from the ground up.

2026

The busy year

Hoster, MoveItHere, Claude Monitor, the AI Atlas, the King County Plat Viewer, Podcast Showrunner, the PSE guide, Washington Contractor Check, First Layer, Bench for Project Farm, the Straight Stick podcast with Andrew Leith, TapRate 3.0, a rebuilt Dwell Secure, and NV Impact, Rx Label Scanner and ECG Trainer under FireTrex.

About

From the firehouse, not just the keyboard.

I'm a serial entrepreneur with three decades of technology and business development behind me. I came to Washington State to work at LapLink, was Director of Engineering at Starwave, a Paul Allen company, and helped start Altrec, one of the first online direct-ship retailers for outdoor enthusiasts. Then I founded WhatCounts, an email publishing platform that grew for ten years without outside money and sold in 2010. I co-founded Eyejot, one of the first web-based asynchronous video communication platforms. I founded Spryly, a flexible digital contact card platform. And I'm a partner in FireTrex, which builds staffing, training and certification software for fire departments.

I'm also a volunteer firefighter and EMT with King County Fire District 27. That's where a lot of my recent work comes from: TapRate, NV Impact, Dwell Secure and the FireTrex apps were all shaped by calls, drills and the people who run them.

The rest of the time I build under the Spryly Labs banner: open-source tools like Hoster, MoveItHere and Claude Monitor, and public-interest guides like the AI Atlas and the PSE customer guide. If it can't be used with gloves on, in bright sun, at 3 a.m., it isn't done.

Most software is designed for the person who writes the check, not the person using it at 4 a.m. I try to build the opposite.How FireTrex describes itself, and a fair summary of everything here.

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KCFD 27Volunteer firefighter & EMT

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Seattle areaPuget Sound, Washington

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On-device firstPrivacy is the default

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No dark patternsNo ads, no retention tricks

Let's build something.

Partnerships, pilots, custom projects, or just a hello. I read everything.

LinkedIn ↗ GitHub ↗ FireTrex contact