Folkert de Wind · Winsum, Groningen
I’m Folkert de Wind. I work as a Business Development Manager in intralogistics and build tools for sales and engineering. I also make websites and software of my own. Increasingly, that work brings together data, commercial experience and graphic design.
I build websites and software, drawing on my background in business development, intralogistics and graphic design.
I have more ideas than I can work on. AI lets me build more of them myself: from a booking platform for family to an app that puts my verification codes on my Mac. This is where I share what I make, why I started and what I learn along the way.
For my next step, I’m interested in work driven by data, design and commercial insight. My CV covers my career and examples.
What I’m working on
In daily use · in development
An illustrative renovation example shows the relationships I want to follow.
I could often remember discussing something, but not where I had saved it. Was it in an email, a note or a recording? That is where my Second Brain started.
I use the search layer daily to bring together information from my files, notes and conversations. When it returns an answer, I want to be able to find the original passage. I also use that route back to my own documents when working on this website’s copy.
In daily use, and still being developed. The article covers the technical setup and dated examples.
The question determines which search routes are needed. Results are then assessed together.
Projects
A typing trainer, a booking website and a new proposal layout. Each project explains what I designed or built.
For my brother and sister-in-law’s guest house, I built the visual identity, website and booking platform. They use it daily; I maintain the back end. Five direct bookings had come in through the website by 18 October 2026.
Website and booking platform
Ritme started with a conversation about how typing speed affects work. We wanted to test it and found TypeSpeedTest. For our use, I wanted Dutch, more control over capitals, a typing trainer and more detailed results. I did not have the source code: I used the visible website as a starting point, built my own version and developed it further.
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AI in my work
I use AI to prepare for conversations, develop proposals and organise notes. These are three applications from my work.
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Articles
About my Second Brain, PLAUD, typing and my own authenticator for the Mac. I describe my own use, the implementation and what remains unfinished.
I bought a recorder to make capturing conversations easy. I am building what comes afterwards, through to a note I want to read again.
Why I am building Ritme: a calm browser trainer for accuracy, deliberate practice and meaningfully comparable progress.
My everyday Mac app for verification codes, with menu bar search, backups of my own and a working Codex connection.
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Behind the projects
Learning on the job extends beyond my work. I took on most of the renovation of a listed house from 1770 myself, from drawings and permits to plastering and electrics. I have also practised natural bodybuilding for more than ten years. Researching, trying things and continuing from there is how I prefer to learn.
Contact
Looking for someone who combines commercial experience with data and design? Or building something you would like to discuss? Send me a message.
I’m happy to talk about a next role, a specific project or an idea you are working on.
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