Independent software · Audio engineering
Implementations Lead at Slice · Maker of Meringo Labs
Every other player asked me to trust it.
I wanted one that could prove it.
═════════════════════════ MERINGO · BIT-PERFECT 1.28.5 · Qudelix 5K · 24/96 ═════════════════════════ [Capture] iso pipe → DAC endpoint cb459147…295adf [Source decode] same file, re-decoded cb459147…295adf BIT-IDENTICAL ✓
Anyone can claim their software works. Meringo captures its own audio output on-device and hands you a SHA-256 receipt proving the bits reached your DAC untouched. Same idea runs through everything I ship: don't ask to be trusted — hand over something checkable.
See a real receipt — verify it yourself →I don't hand-write the code anymore — I direct AI to build it, and I own every decision that matters: the lane the product wins, the honesty bar it holds, what it deliberately refuses to do, and whether it actually works on the device in my hand. AI is the instrument. The receipt is the accountability.
Why it matters: "built with AI" is table stakes now — everyone has the tools. The difference is whether the output survives scrutiny. I hold AI-directed work to a bar it can't fake: a paid product, shipped and running, that proves its own claims. That's the whole discipline.
Learned the lesson everything since has been built on: technology only counts when the person in front of you actually gets it. The product is the moment it makes sense to a human.
Built the programs companies use to get whole teams up to speed on complicated systems — turning dense, intimidating software into something people can operate with confidence.
Ran full Square→Toast point-of-sale migrations end to end — hardware, configuration, owner and staff training — and managed external vendors and MSPs to strict SLAs.
Deploying restaurant software into the field — ~27 shops live — where "it works on my machine" means nothing and "it works in a busy kitchen on a Friday night" is the only bar that counts.
Solo-built and shipped two paid Android apps — an audiophile music player and an audiobook player — the part I do entirely on my own, directing AI and holding the output to a receipts standard.
A bit-perfect music player for Android DAPs and audiophile phones. Plays your local files and your Jellyfin or Subsonic library, has a real parametric EQ workbench with measured headphone corrections by oratory1990 (via OPRA), and shows you exactly what happens to your audio on the way to your DAC — then lets you prove it. 7-day free trial, then $9.99 once. No subscription, no ads.
A premium Android audiobook player for people who own their books. First-class Audiobookshelf support alongside local M4B, MP3 and FLAC, a real 10-band voice EQ, pitch-corrected speed up to 3×, and per-narrator EQ memory. $14.99 once — no subscription, no ads, no tracking.
I'm an AI-native product builder and operator — two decades getting complex technology to make sense to the people using it, and a shipped, paid product that proves its own claims. If you're building something where shipping fast and being provably right both matter, I'd like to hear about it.
War stories from building Meringo — the bugs, the fixes, and the proof each one actually worked.
First entries soonMeringo is built by one person.
No investors, no ads, no data selling, no subscription. Just a one-time price and a lot of late nights. If the app earned a spot on your DAP and you feel like buying me a coffee toward the next feature, it helps more than you'd think. No pressure, ever.
— Adam
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