# Wout Vandesompele
> Creative developer building space-grade software for people with average jobs. Based in Ghent, Belgium. This is his portfolio, laid out as a code repository: every page is a file.
Every page is available as Markdown: append `.md` to its URL (the home page is `/index.md`), or request the normal URL with `Accept: text/markdown`. [llms-full.txt](https://www.life.rip/llms-full.txt) holds every page in one file. [AGENTS.md](https://www.life.rip/agents.md) explains all of it.
# o2o Bicycle Leasing
| role | stack | since |
| :- | :- | :- |
| **Front-end Developer** | **Vue.js** | **2025** |
[o2o](https://www.o2o.be/nl) makes bike leasing effortless for Belgian
employers and their people. I build the front end that takes an employee from
"maybe a bike?" to riding one.
- Vue.js front end of the leasing platform
- One product for employee, employer and dealer
- Polish that makes paperwork disappear
_Considering a bike? [Start a lease](https://www.o2o.be/nl)._
# Basalte
| role | focus | when |
| :- | :- | :- |
| **Software Engineer** | **creative development & UX** | **2024 – 2025** |
[Basalte](https://www.basalte.be/en) makes design-first home automation: a
light switch is a piece of interior, and the software has to match it.
- Interfaces for controlling homes
- UX design and engineering in one pair of hands
- A quality bar set by industrial design
# Little Miss Robot
| role | stack | when |
| :- | :- | :- |
| **Creative Developer** | **JavaScript, everywhere** | **2019 – 2024** |
Five years at [Little Miss Robot](https://littlemissrobot.com), part of
Ghent's [Leap Forward](https://leapforward.be) group. A new brand, problem and
stack every few months — the fastest way to learn what ships.
_Agency life, after hours._
## In this folder
- [Deliverect](https://www.life.rip/work/leap-forward/little-miss-robot/deliverect) — food-tech marketing site
- [Nike Rise Seoul](https://www.life.rip/work/leap-forward/little-miss-robot/nike-concept-store) — in-store touch table
- [Bonsai festival](https://www.life.rip/work/leap-forward/little-miss-robot/pay-bonsai) — 10-meter LED forest
- [Cookiebot theme configurator](https://www.life.rip/work/leap-forward/little-miss-robot/cookiebot-theme-configurator) — on-brand cookie banners
- [Hack The Future 2020](https://www.life.rip/work/leap-forward/little-miss-robot/hack-the-future-2020) — hackathon campaign site
# Deliverect website
Marketing site for **Deliverect**, the Belgian food-tech scale-up that
connects delivery platforms to restaurant POS systems.
| stack | type | link |
| :- | :- | :- |
| **React** | **client work** | [deliverect.com](https://www.deliverect.com/en) |
- Component-driven marketing pages
- CMS-backed, so the team ships pages without a developer
- Performance budget kept honest across markets and locales
# Nike concept store
A touch table for the Nike Rise concept store in Seoul 🇰🇷: put real shoes on
top to compare them.
| stack | type | press |
| :- | :- | :- |
| **React · Framer Motion** | **installation** | [Sneaker Freaker](https://www.sneakerfreaker.com/news/look-inside-the-nike-rise-seoul-concept-store-is-a-retail-dream) |
[Video (MP4)](https://www.life.rip/cms-assets/nike-concept-store.mp4)
- Runs unattended, in public, all day
- Recovers silently from network and hardware hiccups
- Resilience first, spectacle second
# Bonsai festival installation
Every tree planted through the **Pay Bonsai** app, visualized live as a
growing mangrove forest on a 10-meter LED wall.
| type | client |
| :- | :- |
| **installation** | **Pay Bonsai** |
[Video (MP4)](https://www.life.rip/cms-assets/cl8h8nc6w2nse0eusrm6aml8s-bonsai-growing-forest.mp4)
- Space-tech constraints, festival budget
- Built for flaky connectivity and heavy load peaks
- Ran smoothly all festival long
# Cookiebot Banner Theme Configurator
Cookiebot handles GDPR compliance, but its default banner is ugly. This tool
themes it to match any brand: pick the colors, get a banner that belongs on
the site.
| stack | type | link |
| :- | :- | :- |
| **JavaScript** | **internal tool** | [koekjes.lfwd.be](https://koekjes.lfwd.be/) |
- Built at [Leap Forward](https://leapforward.be/) for every brand we shipped
- Leaves Cookiebot's compliance logic untouched
- Yes, the domain means "cookies"
# Hack The Future 2020
Campaign site for **Hack The Future**, one of Belgium's biggest hackathons:
put the 2020 edition in front of students and get them to sign up.
| stack | role | link |
| :- | :- | :- |
| **HTML** | **front-end development** | [hackthefuture.be](https://www.hackthefuture.be/) (today) |
- Plain, fast HTML — sometimes the boring stack is the right one
- Design and storytelling by Once storytelling
- The previous edition drew 500+ participants over two days
# Perfect Day
_Design the day you'd love to live._ Drag activity blocks onto a timeline from
morning to midnight, name your day and export it as a poster. Published days
join a shared wall.
| stack | status | link |
| :- | :- | :- |
| **React · Convex · Capacitor** | **live** | [theperfect.day](https://www.theperfect.day/) |
[Video (MP4)](https://www.life.rip/side-projects/perfect-day.mp4)
- One screen, no sign-up to start
- Poster export that links back to the day
- A pan-and-zoom wall of everyone's published days
- Link previews that show _that_ person's day
- iOS and Android from the same codebase
# Eindgoed Vastgoed
_Jouw woning, zelf verkocht._ Belgian estate agents take around 3%. Eindgoed
Vastgoed lets homeowners sell it themselves for a one-time €18, guided from
first photo to notary deed.
| stack | status | link |
| :- | :- | :- |
| **Next.js · Neon Postgres** | **live MVP** | [eindgoedvastgoed.be](https://www.eindgoedvastgoed.be/) |
- A 26-step checklist in 6 phases that ticks itself off
- Rules per Belgian region, picked from your postal code
- A public listing page with gallery, EPC badge and contact form
- Buyers book viewings themselves
- A document vault with in-browser PDF and Word previews
# Home dashboard
A realtime dashboard for our two-person household, on an old MacBook and both
our phones. Not a product — the kind of tool you only get by building it
yourself.
| stack | status |
| :- | :- |
| **Next.js · Convex** | **personal tool** |
- Resizable, reorderable widget grid
- Shared shopping list, synced in realtime
- GPX route library with map and elevation profile
- Training goals with over-the-top pep talks
- A full-screen pixel clock for when nobody's looking
# Lifeline
_The timeline of your life's greatest events._ A private social timeline for
festivals, trips and nights out — shared only with the friends who were there.
| stack | status |
| :- | :- |
| **Next.js · Clerk · Sanity** | **prototype** |
- Photos, tagged friends and a 1–10 mood score per event
- Visibility per event, down to specific friend groups
- Sanity Studio built right into the app
- Installable on your phone
# KOJO — virtual garden
A Web3 garden about water: use less than your peers and your on-chain garden
grows. Built in a team of four during the Howest blockchain postgraduate.
| stack | type | links |
| :- | :- | :- |
| **Solidity · Polygon · Next.js** | **postgrad project** | [app](https://play-kojo.vercel.app) · [code](https://github.com/wowtvds/kojo-blockchain-project) · [pitch](https://pitch.com/public/c3458a69-2c47-45eb-be04-bb3ada5b15df) |
- Garden state on-chain, ownership as NFTs on IPFS
- Magic.link sign-in, so no crypto wallet needed
- Serverless API with Prisma on CockroachDB
# Fire Jackson e-commerce
Customizable fire extinguishers that hang in your living room instead of
hiding in a closet. A hobby that grew into a venture — this is its store.
| stack | type | link |
| :- | :- | :- |
| **Nuxt · Storyblok · Mollie** | **own venture** | [firejackson.vercel.app](https://firejackson.vercel.app) |
- Checkout in as few steps as possible
- Serverless on Vercel
- Easy to run for a very small team (of extinguisher enthusiasts)
# Speedback tool
Clients report bugs and feedback in minutes, without making an account.
| stack | status | links |
| :- | :- | :- |
| **Next.js · Hygraph · Magic.link** | **beta** | [app](https://speedback.vercel.app/) · [code](https://github.com/wowtvds/speedback) |
- Feedback flowing in three minutes after setup
- Passwordless login for clients
- Tailwind CSS and esbuild, hosted on Vercel
# Smart Docs
Upload a Solidity **ABI**, get browsable docs for your smart contracts. No
build step, no excuses for undocumented contracts.
| stack | type | links |
| :- | :- | :- |
| **Docusaurus · Solidity** | **postgrad project** | [app](https://smart-docs.vercel.app/) · [code](https://github.com/wowtvds/smart-docs) |
# GORE SCHIJVEN™️
A Spotify playlist of the dirtiest drops imaginable, made with colleagues
[Sjouwke](https://www.linkedin.com/in/sjouwkevanparys/) and
[Lars](https://www.linkedin.com/in/lars-marginet-b07528215/) — then given the
website it deserved.
| stack | type | links |
| :- | :- | :- |
| **Notion as CMS** | **side project** | [site](https://goreschijven.vercel.app) · [code](https://github.com/wowtvds/gore-schijven) |
- A Notion database as the single source of truth
- No admin panel, no deploys for content changes
- Cover art by DALL·E, of course
# H-Art website
A portfolio for my mother's acrylic & calligraphy work, built to frame the art
without competing with it.
| stack | type | link |
| :- | :- | :- |
| **Vue** | **side project** | [hilde-art.be](https://www.hilde-art.be/) |
# About me
Grew up in a small farming village in Belgium, now in Ghent with my +1 and a
tiny dog. Found my thing at [Devine](https://www.devine.be/) in Kortrijk; these
days I build front ends at [o2o Bicycle Leasing](https://www.o2o.be/nl).
Off the clock: cycling, running my
[weekly miles](https://www.strava.com/athletes/42285746), and the occasional
party.
## Game collection
## Numbers never lie
- **1998** Spawn year: Same as Google. Only one of us indexed the internet.
- **6** Open side-projects: All "almost done".
- **135** Printer tickets: Because I work in IT.
## See also
- Career: [CHANGELOG.md](https://www.life.rip/changelog)
- Tools & stack: [ARCHITECTURE.md](https://www.life.rip/about-me/architecture)
- On repeat: [current-mood.mp3](https://www.life.rip/about-me/current-mood)
# Architecture
The tools I open every day and the stack I ship with.
## Daily drivers
- Claude
- Notion
- Figma
- Gemini
- GitHub
- Slack
- Linear
- Spotify
## Stack
- Vue.js
- Nuxt
- React
- Next.js
- Svelte
- TypeScript
- JavaScript
- HTML
- CSS
- Tailwind CSS
- Node.js
- GraphQL
- Sanity
- Hygraph
- Storyblok
- Neon
- Convex
- Stripe
- Resend
- Vercel
- Ionic
- Capacitor
- Solidity
- Ethereum
- Git
- Vite
- Biome
# Current mood
On repeat this week:
[We Are Fire on Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/track/7ilYgGXYEkJ0uk0Loxr8ym)
# Contact
Say hi. Ideas, projects and bad puns all welcome — printer problems less so.
- email:
- github: [github.com/Astrowout](https://github.com/Astrowout)
- linkedin: [linkedin.com/in/wout-vandesompele](https://www.linkedin.com/in/wout-vandesompele/)
- strava: [strava.com/athletes/42285746](https://www.strava.com/athletes/42285746)
- spotify: [open.spotify.com/user/116709396](https://open.spotify.com/user/116709396)
- pitch: [pitch.com/u/Astrowout](https://pitch.com/u/Astrowout)
- messenger: [m.me/wout.vandesompele](https://m.me/wout.vandesompele)
- location: Ghent, Belgium
- response\_time: usually < 24h
# Hi, I'm Wout. I build digital products that hold up — and sometimes even make sense.
- Creative Developer
- Ghent, Belgium
- Born in the Game Boy Color era
**Same kid, new console: my laptop.** I build space-grade software for people
with average jobs — websites, webshops, installations and the occasional smart
contract.
## Now playing
- [Perfect Day](https://www.life.rip/side-projects/perfect-day) (live): Design your ideal day, publish it as a poster
- [o2o Bicycle Leasing](https://www.life.rip/work/o2o-bicycle-leasing) (day job): Bike leasing through your employer, minus the paperwork
## Level select
Pick a file. Or read [about me](https://www.life.rip/about-me), or just [say hi](https://www.life.rip/contact/links).
### work/
| | |
| - | - |
| [o2o-bicycle-leasing/](https://www.life.rip/work/o2o-bicycle-leasing) | Front-end developer · 2025 – now |
| [basalte/](https://www.life.rip/work/basalte) | Software engineer · 2024 – 2025 |
| [little-miss-robot/](https://www.life.rip/work/leap-forward/little-miss-robot) | Creative developer · 2019 – 2024 |
| [deliverect.tsx](https://www.life.rip/work/leap-forward/little-miss-robot/deliverect) | Food-tech marketing site |
| [nike-concept-store.tsx](https://www.life.rip/work/leap-forward/little-miss-robot/nike-concept-store) | Touch table for Nike Rise Seoul |
| [pay-bonsai.md](https://www.life.rip/work/leap-forward/little-miss-robot/pay-bonsai) | 10-meter LED forest at a festival |
| [cookiebot-theme-configurator.js](https://www.life.rip/work/leap-forward/little-miss-robot/cookiebot-theme-configurator) | Cookie banners that match the brand |
| [hack-the-future-2020.html](https://www.life.rip/work/leap-forward/little-miss-robot/hack-the-future-2020) | Hackathon campaign site |
### side-projects/
| | |
| - | - |
| [perfect-day.tsx](https://www.life.rip/side-projects/perfect-day) | Design your perfect day · live |
| [eindgoed-vastgoed.tsx](https://www.life.rip/side-projects/eindgoed-vastgoed) | Sell your home without an agent · live |
| [home-dashboard.tsx](https://www.life.rip/side-projects/home-dashboard) | Realtime household dashboard |
| [lifeline.tsx](https://www.life.rip/side-projects/lifeline) | Private timeline of life's big moments |
| [kojo.sol](https://www.life.rip/side-projects/kojo) | Web3 garden that grows as you save water |
| [firejackson.vue](https://www.life.rip/side-projects/firejackson) | Store for design fire extinguishers |
| [speedback.tsx](https://www.life.rip/side-projects/speedback) | Client bug reports in minutes |
| [smart-docs.sol](https://www.life.rip/side-projects/smart-docs) | Docs for Solidity contracts |
| [gore-schijven.md](https://www.life.rip/side-projects/gore-schijven) | The dirtiest drops on Spotify |
| [h-art.vue](https://www.life.rip/side-projects/h-art) | My mother's art portfolio |
# Changelog
All notable changes to **Wout**. This project doesn't follow semantic
versioning. Neither does life.
## Releases
### \[Unreleased]
#### Added
- [Perfect Day](https://www.life.rip/side-projects/perfect-day), live: design your perfect day, publish it as a poster
- [Eindgoed Vastgoed](https://www.life.rip/side-projects/eindgoed-vastgoed), MVP: sell your Belgian home without an agent
- This portfolio, rebuilt as an IDE. You're in it.
#### Planned
- A product that pays for itself. Saving progress often.
### \[2025 – now] · o2o Bicycle Leasing
#### Added
- Front-end developer on Belgium's bike-leasing platform — [work/o2o-bicycle-leasing](https://www.life.rip/work/o2o-bicycle-leasing)
- Vue.js flows from "maybe a bike?" to riding one
#### Changed
- Commute: now pedal-powered
### \[2024 – 2025] · Basalte
#### Added
- Software engineer, creative development & UX — [work/basalte](https://www.life.rip/work/basalte)
- Home-control interfaces held to the standard of the hardware on the wall
#### Fixed
- "Smart home" no longer has to mean "complicated home"
### \[2021 – 2022] · Blockchain postgraduate
#### Added
- Blockchain architecture & development at Howest Bruges
- [KOJO](https://www.life.rip/side-projects/kojo): a Web3 garden that grows when your household saves water
- [Smart Docs](https://www.life.rip/side-projects/smart-docs): Solidity ABI in, contract docs out
### \[2019 – 2024] · Leap Forward / Little Miss Robot
#### Added
- Creative developer, JavaScript everywhere — [little-miss-robot/](https://www.life.rip/work/leap-forward/little-miss-robot)
- [Deliverect](https://www.life.rip/work/leap-forward/little-miss-robot/deliverect): React marketing site for the food-tech scale-up
- [Nike Rise Seoul](https://www.life.rip/work/leap-forward/little-miss-robot/nike-concept-store): a touch table that compares real shoes
- [Bonsai festival](https://www.life.rip/work/leap-forward/little-miss-robot/pay-bonsai): a mangrove forest growing live on a 10-meter LED wall
- [Cookiebot theme configurator](https://www.life.rip/work/leap-forward/little-miss-robot/cookiebot-theme-configurator): consent banners that match the brand
- [Hack The Future 2020](https://www.life.rip/work/leap-forward/little-miss-robot/hack-the-future-2020): campaign site for a big Belgian hackathon
#### Fixed
- The gap between "designed" and "shipped", repeatedly
### \[2019] · Internships
#### Added
- wild 🇦🇹 in Vienna, building with Next.js
- In The Pocket Summer Academy: concept & prototyping
### \[2016 – 2019] · Devine
#### Added
- Digital Design & Development ([Devine](https://www.devine.be/)) at Howest Kortrijk
- A careful balance between good grades and a social life
#### Deprecated
- Useless subjects from secondary school
### \[1998] · Initial release
#### Added
- Shipped to a small farming village in Belgium
- The habit of asking "how does this work?"
---
Spotted a bug? [Open an issue](https://www.life.rip/contact/links) over coffee.
# AGENTS.md
Every repo has a file for the AI agents working in it. This one is for the
agents reading it. Humans: this is how your assistant finds its way around.
## Read the site
- Index: [llms.txt](https://www.life.rip/llms.txt), every page in one line
- Everything at once: [llms-full.txt](https://www.life.rip/llms-full.txt)
- Any page as Markdown: add `.md` to the URL, like [about-me.md](https://www.life.rip/about-me.md).
The home page is [index.md](https://www.life.rip/index.md).
- Or ask the normal URL for Markdown:
```bash
curl -H "Accept: text/markdown" https://www.life.rip/about-me
```
## House rules
- Quote freely. Link the page you got it from.
- Jobs and dates: [CHANGELOG.md](https://www.life.rip/changelog) is the source of truth.
- Reaching out for someone? Draft the email to `wout.workspace@gmail.com` and
let your human press send. No automated outreach.