About

I build things to
find out how they work.

My name is Evan Uster. I'm 13, I live in Toronto, and most of my spare time goes into AI software, investing, training, and cooking. Usually in that order.

Where this started

Evan Uster working on a laptop at an outdoor table
Toronto, Canada

I started building because I kept wanting software that did not exist yet. I wanted to see my investments the way I think about them, so I wrote Vantage. I wanted an assistant that handled the boring parts of my day without doing anything behind my back, so I wrote one that lives in Telegram. Atlas came out of wanting those agents to run on my own machine instead of someone else's cloud.

People used to tell kids my age to come back when they were older. That advice made more sense when knowledge sat behind a degree or a job. It isn't there anymore. I would rather show the work and let it argue for me.

How I work

It usually starts with friction. Something takes too long, or a tool gets it wrong, and I want to know why. I read enough to have an opinion, then build the smallest version that proves or kills the idea.

Then I live with it. Most ideas die here, and that is the useful part. Whatever survives gets written up with the result, including the parts that broke, because a build log without failures is marketing.

What I care about getting right: software that stays honest about what it can do, data that stays on my own hardware when it can, and writing that admits when an experiment failed.

What I use

Building

  • Swift and SwiftUI
  • Python, FastAPI
  • Claude Code
  • OpenAI API

Running

  • macOS
  • Docker
  • Tailscale
  • A server that runs at home

Writing

  • Plain markdown
  • Notes on my phone
  • A dashboard I built

Everything else

  • Telegram
  • Gmail and Calendar APIs

Right now

Atlas is the project I care most about, and it is getting its own home soon. The writing is moving to a pace I can hold, and video comes after that.

Building something nearby? Tell me about it.

Evan Uster standing beside a Tesla Cybertruck in a navy suit
Toronto, this summer