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2025: the exploration year

Before Slapp there was a year of trying things. Vestra's GitHub organisation holds 58 repositories from 2025. Paired into frontends, backends, widgets and templates, they come to 28 distinct ideas. Two more lived on a personal account. All 30 are listed here in the order they were started. Most were killed. Two fed directly into Slapp, two are paused, and one became a delivered client project.

30 entries, 25 killed, 2 merged into Slapp, 2 paused, 1 delivered to a client.

  1. 1Vestra PortalJanuary to MarchAI search for any website: crawl the pages, embed them, answer questions in Icelandic with links. Sold as a script tag with monthly plans. Two builds, the first on vestra.is.Killed
  2. 2ReglugerðaleitFebruarySearch Reykjavík's regulations from the Government Gazette in plain Icelandic: the rules on waste, soil and building lots.Killed
  3. 3Hagstofa searchMarch to AprilAsk Statistics Iceland a question. Every statistical table became a callable function, so the model picks the tables, fetches the numbers and draws the chart.Killed
  4. 4StigMayRate and review websites on support, accessibility, design, content and speed, with owner verification and a trending list.Killed
  5. 5Tik StockMay to JuneA vertical swipe feed of stocks with live prices, a watchlist and following. The first mobile app in the company.Killed
  6. 6WagrJune, touched SeptemberWagers between friends, with a named third party who confirms the winner, paid for with virtual credits. Payments first through Polar, then Coinbase Commerce.Killed
  7. 7Iceland Activities ChatJuneA chat that finds tours, restaurants and services in Iceland by searching a business directory with tool calls.Killed
  8. 8Guidance.isJuneA map of Iceland with community stories, folklore and local tips in Icelandic and English, reviews of places, and room for businesses to advertise.Killed
  9. 9SplittaJune, redesigned March 2026Split a restaurant bill: photograph the receipt, a vision model reads the items, everyone claims theirs, and totals convert between currencies.Paused
  10. 10UppscriptJune to JulyPaste a recipe URL and an AI extracts the ingredients, steps and photos into a personal cookbook. Paid with credits.Killed
  11. 11DulvitJulyAn AI workspace for teams: notes, files, meetings, tasks and an assistant over all of it. A side branch added the first Kenni electronic ID sign-in.Merged into Slapp
  12. 12GoalGroupsJulySet measurable goals, break them into tasks and track them in groups, with likes, comments, streaks and achievements.Killed
  13. 13LinguLiftJuly to AugustPractise a language by chatting with an AI tutor that corrects you as you go, with riddles, XP and streaks. Eight languages and a waitlist page.Killed
  14. 14SportaconSeptember to OctoberA sports network where football players build profiles and scouts post roles, with messaging, applications and a paid tier. Web and native app, seven weeks, both founders.Merged into Slapp
  15. 15Virtual try-onSeptemberUpload four photos of yourself and one of a garment, and an image model dresses you in it. Built on fal.ai image editing.Killed
  16. 16VESOctoberA styling language that compiles to CSS, designed for LLMs to write: semantic tokens, spacing and contrast constraints, and a VS Code extension.Killed
  17. 17BlogParrotOctoberMulti-tenant blog hosting where an AI writes the posts on credits, with subdomains, custom domains, themes and analytics.Killed
  18. 18EventLookerOctoberDescribe an event and find it, as a ChatGPT app and a website, with tickets and QR codes. Its code became the base of the Tixly work.Killed
  19. 19WeatherRankOctoberRate today's weather in your city from 0 to 10 and see live rankings of cities on a heatmap.Killed
  20. 20TermifiedOctoberOne script tag that embeds a company's terms and privacy policy and records signed, auditable consent from each user.Killed
  21. 21MelvenNovemberOne script tag that adds AI to any website: hover summaries, inline insights and a sidebar chat with the page as context.Killed
  22. 22MathemyNovember to DecemberAn online graphing calculator with an AI assistant that plots, differentiates, integrates and solves. Later packaged as a ChatGPT app.Killed
  23. 23JoblierNovemberUpload a CV, an AI parses it and matches it to jobs by embeddings, with a separate employer dashboard. Seeded with Icelandic jobs.Killed
  24. 24Tixly chatNovemberA ChatGPT app over Tixly's ticketing feed: search events by budget, category or venue and see a calendar. Grew into MCP servers and a chat widget delivered to Tixly in March 2026.Delivered to a client
  25. 25ProblemityNovemberTeachers generate assignments and exams by subject, grade and learning objective, with worked solutions, diagrams and a PDF.Killed
  26. 26Design TunerNovemberDesign systems by gradient descent against a trained discriminator: fix the colours you want and let the model tune the rest.Killed
  27. 27Krónan in ChatGPTNovemberSearch Krónan's products and recipes, with nutrition information, from inside ChatGPT. Built in a day.Killed
  28. 28AI Vision AssistantDecemberPoint the camera at a problem, ask a question, and watch the model reason step by step to a boxed answer.Killed
  29. 29fot.isDecember, re-scoped July 2026A marketplace for new and used clothes with seller profiles, ratings and gated contact details. Re-scoped as an AI stylist over shops that ship to Iceland.Paused
  30. 30Melven directoryDecemberA directory where developers list their MCP servers with a discovery file and get a page for AI agents to find.Killed

What the year taught

Most of these were built by one of us in a few days, deployed, and left. The two that got weeks rather than days, Vestra Portal and Sportacon, were the ones we built together. Sportacon gave Slapp its shape: the same monorepo layout and Convex backend, profiles, messaging and a paid tier. Slapp's first commit came three weeks after Sportacon's last one.

The electronic ID sign-in that Slapp is built on was first wired up in July, as a side branch of Dulvit that never merged. The tooling survived too. The Next.js, Expo and Convex templates from that summer are still what new projects start from.