MeganWarren

Megan Warren ·
Designer & Builder

software you can just open.

25+ shipped this year.
Most live inside a classroom, a tutoring desk, or a fundraising office.
Six are open to the public, so open one right now and see for yourself.

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Probability & Matrices

Course textbook · 25 sections · grades 10 to 12 · one HTML file

Every choice in this book is backed by something, not a guess. Before writing a single section, I pulled research on what actually keeps teenagers engaged with material like this. I scraped it, synthesized it for the patterns that kept showing up, the dos and don'ts, and used those as guiding principles for how the book reads, not just what it teaches. When I do not know something for certain, I look it up. I would rather spend an hour confirming a fact than ship a guess.

The same engine behind this book, one source that forks into a student edition and a facilitator's answer-key edition, works just as well for a corporate onboarding guide or a certification study guide. That is a commission I take on just as readily as a classroom textbook.

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Grouper

Classroom tool · in daily use · one HTML file

Built to run 3 Minds, 1 Marker, the daily random-grouping routine from Building Thinking Classrooms. Save your classes and rosters once and they're just there every day, no re-typing a list. Every group gets real roles (Scribe, Speaker, Inquirer), a built-in timer keeps rounds moving, and a separate presentation screen shows the room a clean projected view instead of the teacher's own working screen. Groups are genuinely random, but never a repeat, and never leave one student alone: the tool would rather give you a group of three than strand a pair.

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Wildcard

Icebreaker · 190 questions · one HTML file

I built it to open class every so often. Real celebrity-interview questions land better with students than the usual icebreaker-deck fluff, so I scraped good ones from podcast transcripts, then rewrote the best so whoever spins can actually answer, not just the specific celebrity who was originally asked. Filter by podcast or by vibe, and pick more than one of each.

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Color Companion

Color matcher · full marker set · one HTML file

Built for myself first. I love coloring, but I used to stand in front of a wall of markers with a reference photo, guessing, then watching the finished piece come out wrong. So I swatched every marker I own and built a matcher instead. Point it at any color and it ranks the closest real markers in the set. No more guessing.

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Ask the Turtle

Marketing website + free client tools · for a Boston fundraising consultancy · one client

The live marketing website for a nonprofit-fundraising consultancy, built end to end. Navy is the anchor (used instead of black). Lime is the single accent, one pop per view. The listening rings, three concentric ripples in lime, sky, and teal, literalize the brand's promise to listen first. I designed the identity, then built the site that carries it.

My favorite page on the site was my idea, start to finish: a free Tools page with working fundraising calculators (a gift range chart, an ask-amount suggester, a retention and ROI tool) that visitors can use before ever hiring the firm. The kind of thing big firms keep behind a login, given away as the handshake.

Visit the site My favorite page: the Tools

Hello Paint

Brand system for an Etsy shop

A warm, hand-painted identity for an Etsy shop selling custom paint-by-number kits: a photo goes in, a paintable kit comes out. Raspberry carries the “hello,” plum ink stands in for black in the body copy, and the palette skips orange on purpose so it reads as human-made, never techy. I designed the whole system, mark, color, type, voice, and templates, then built it as a fully offline brand book.

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A few of the decisions nobody asks about.

Real details, from real, shipped tools

No wifi.
No login.
No install.
Why that's not a small thing
A tool that needs a connection breaks exactly when you need it most: mid-class, on a school network having a bad day, on a plane. Everything I build works the same whether you're at a desk or standing in front of thirty kids with the wifi down.
Built to survive the exact moment it needs to work.
GROUP 3 100% new
L Leila Scribe
G Grace Speaker
T Theo Inquirer
What “100% new” tracks
The tool remembers the last several rounds of groups, so a fresh trio is never a coincidence, it's the freshest match it could find.
Scribe writes, Speaker talks, Inquirer asks. One marker, three real jobs.
P(A|B) = P(A∩B)P(B)
The book's read-aloud says, word for word
“P of A given B equals the fraction P of A intersect B over P of B”
Every fraction stacks on screen, and the read-aloud speaks the same math, not around it.

Not everything I build can be public.

Selected private work

Prospect Waterfall

Nonprofit research tool · built for one client · not public

A waterfall-enrichment engine for nonprofit development work: give it an organization's name, and it pulls real IRS Form 990 financial data, computes an actual multi-year funding trend instead of a single snapshot, and finds and verifies real contacts there, each one checked by a real evaluator before it counts as a hit. Every provider it tries is logged, so nothing is a guess dressed up as a result. Built for a fundraising consultancy's internal use, and it stays that way, since the exact discovery logic is part of what makes it valuable to the people who paid for it.

Daily Lesson Kit

Teaching companion · Trig, Derivatives, Integrals · private, by request

The most ambitious thing I've built for my own classroom: a daily companion that runs the actual routines research says work, a silent-scribe warm-up, an honest check-in, Grouper built right in, pulling live lunch and advisory feed data so it's actually current, not a static template. Every research-grounded habit in my teaching lives in one place here. It stays private because it's tuned to my own courses and schedule, but a version built around your own daily routines is exactly the kind of thing I take on commission.

How I work

Offline first
Every tool here runs with zero network calls after it loads, by choice. Need something connected instead? That works too.
Fixed price
You know the number before I start. No surprise invoices.
One point of contact
You talk to the person who actually builds it, always.
Ships fast
Tools like the ones shown here ship in one to three weeks, start to finish.

Commissions, plainly

What I take on
Small, focused web tools (a Grouper, a Wildcard, a desk built around your work). Brand systems delivered as working offline documents. Print-ready textbooks, study guides, and training materials. Design audits.
What I don't
Enterprise software, hosted platforms with logins and databases, and open-ended "figure it out as we go" projects. If your project is that shape, I will say so fast and point you somewhere honest.
Timing
I take a small number of commissions at a time, and the school year starts again in September.
The first step
One email describing the thing you wish existed. You get an honest read on fit, then a real number and a real date before I start.
What it runs
Most commissions land between $1,500 and $10,000, priced by scope before I start, never by the hour. A focused single-purpose tool in the shape of Grouper or Wildcard usually runs $1,500 to $3,500. A brand system delivered as a working document, like Ask the Turtle's, runs $4,000 and up. Bigger or multi-piece projects get scoped individually, no ceiling either direction. Not ready for a full project? A half-day design sprint runs $600 to $1,000.

Megan Warren ·
Designer & Builder

Have something you wish already existed?

Tell me what it is. I will tell you honestly whether it is a good fit. If it is, you will get a real number and a real timeline before we start.

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