Solopreneur

Dave Clayton • Peerlist

<h3>OctoLoops is an AI-powered command center designed to help small software products find their distribution game.</h3>It acts as an automated growth lead, taking your product's URL and mapping out the most effective distribution channels. OctoLoops' agents identify active leads and craft personalized outreach messages to help you win your first users.<ul><li>Automated Growth Loops: Give OctoLoops your app URL, and it will score the ten most promising distribution channels worth trying.</li><li>Find Live Threads: The tool identifies active threads on platforms like Reddit where users are discussing relevant topics, such as marketing help or where to post new apps.</li><li>Draft Personalized Comments: OctoLoops drafts comments for these threads, allowing you to engage directly with potential users. It provides direct links to these threads for easy access.</li><li>Focus on Actionable Steps: The output includes a clear plan with scores for each channel and the necessary assets to prepare. It highlights the next best move to take.</li><li>No Signup Required for Initial Plan: Get your free distribution plan without needing an account or providing a credit card.</li></ul>OctoLoops helps you navigate the complexities of product launch and distribution by providing data-driven insights and automated assistance, enabling you to focus on acquiring early users and driving sales.The platform has generated distribution plans for a variety of products, including developer learning tools, web research APIs, AI sales copilots, engineering design review tools, home maintenance apps, and expert marketplaces.Additionally, OctoLoops offers a free PDF field guide, "The 2026 App Distribution Playbook," which explores the integration of modern sales, social media, creator economy, search, and community strategies into a sustainable marketing loop.

OctoLoops

I run a site to help people find a new career in cleantech (the "green" technology sector) in the Netherlands. Initially started from a database of companies I built myself when searching for job opportunities.

Dutch Cleantech Jobs

Developed 2 websites including integration with corresponding Unity game apps. PHP / MySQL / REST. Implemented achievements, leaderboards and Facebook integration.

Unity game and website projects

Gameplay, network and multiplayer, A.I., scripting (virtual machine and compiler functionality) and animation programmer. Worked in a large AAA studio team in a diverse set of highly challenging and technical roles.

Haze

Solvers.io is a community of people who want to improve our world. We connect projects that tackle important problems with the people who have the skills to help.

Solvers.io

C# / ASP.NET / MSSQL developer for long term project to improve an internal web app for a privately held company. Added features such as QuickBooks time tracking integration (with QuickBooks API) and improving overall functionality.

GC Portal

Developed C++ features and improvements for Serif's web design software. Extended and improved Serif Web Resources, the web applications integrated with WebPlus and providing website creators with a powerful toolset for improving their UX.

WebPlus X2 & Serif Web Resources

Built a Mexican version of the popular user content sharing / voting site "9gag": custom file uploading; time decay voting system based on hybrid of Reddit / Hackernews; many integrations, including: Facebook (login, sharing), Twitter (sharing), Pinterest (sharing), Google+ (sharing), YouTube & Vimeo (video players). Technologies: PHP (Laravel) / MySQL / HTML5 / CSS / JavaScript (jQuery)

Ch1do - Mexican 9gag

The never released action adventure game that finished off Fuzzyeyes.

Edge of Twilight

Hotdogs Hotgals was fast food tycoon game developed for pc using Renderware.

Hotdogs Hotgals

Developed flash card app with several game modes for learning Dutch verbs. Java and Android SDK.

Learn Dutch Verbs

PHP / MySQL developer for new letting agent website. Implemented post code search and other features. Setup hosting on EC2.

Letting Agent Website

Built and launched small job board website for games industry freelancers, using Rails and Heroku.

Games Freelancers

Built Android app for radio station "user voice" show: radio streaming, user voting and poll creation, commenting, with live refreshing of data from web services and Facebook integration.

Stand.NL Radio/user polls Android app

Developed 3D role-playing game "Discretion" for Android in Java with the libgdx open source cross-platform game engine. Implemented game framework and all gameplay logic, and contributed animation extensions back to libgdx. Built level environments, scripting engine and wrote storylines.

Discretion

Built small GPS tracking prototype in Rails with Google Maps integration.

GPS Tracking Website

Worked on mobile A/B testing app for Silicon Valley startup. Using: Java, Android, AnguarJS.

Apptimize

Developed social scrapbooking site 'DaisyTrail', a social network where users of Serif's Digital Scrapbook Artist software could share their creations in a large and vibrant community. Built software stack and web framework (XSLT/PHP/MySQL/Memcache) on Amazon EC2.

DaisyTrail

Built localization web app facilitating the translation of game projects and production of JSON localization sheets for other client applications. Web app is cleanly separated into an API and a responsive front-end application. Using: PHP (Laravel), MySQL, HTML5, CSS3, jQuery, REST, JSON.

Game Localizer

Frontend development of various digital TV products for Liberty Global Automated testing: headless, desktop and set-top-boxes Code review & architecture