Noel Turlington.

I'm Noel, and I enjoy falling down rabbit holes.

Most of them turn into apps. I'm a product manager in Brooklyn; I build small, fast web tools end to end, usually to fix something in my own life, then ship them. Most recently at Privy, acquired by Stripe in 2026.

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Selected work

Designed + built solo · 2024-26
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Topsail Traffic

Beat the bridge.

A live "when to leave" app for the Topsail Island swing bridge. Real-time traffic, NOAA tides, NCDOT incidents, two live cams, and a 7-day trip planner, so you never sit in the holiday backup again.

StackNext.js · Mapbox · live data
StatusPublic · real users · own domain
Topsail Traffic dashboard showing a 24-minute drive estimate, a route map, and a plan-a-trip view Fig. 01 · Live traffic dashboard
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Boundless

A training protocol, made an app.

The Boundless 7-day program turned into a guided trainer: drift-free interval timers, Oura recovery sync, AI health read-outs, and SMS workout logging. Thirty-plus releases of nights-and-weekends iteration.

StackNext.js · Clerk · Oura · Claude
StatusInvite-only build · public landing
Boundless landing page reading Train Smarter, Recover Better, with an interval timer product shot Fig. 02 · Landing + timer
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Kite PR

Wind, read at a glance.

A kiteboarding forecast dashboard for Puerto Rico. Multi-source wind across 20+ spots on one live map, an AI conditions read, history charts, marker clustering, and push alerts when it's finally on.

StackNext.js · Leaflet · forecast APIs
StatusPublic · PWA
Kite PR live wind map of Puerto Rico with per-spot wind readings and a spot list rail Fig. 03 · Live wind map
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Fuel

Log a meal by photo.

A lean-bulk meal and macro tracker. Snap a photo or just describe what you ate and a vision model logs the macros; a Smart-Brevity coach keeps the day's targets in view. Built as an installable PWA.

StackNext.js · vision AI · PWA
StatusPublic
Fuel macro tracker showing the day's calorie target and a list of logged meals with per-item macros Fig. 04 · Today's macros
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JobTracker

The job hunt, run like a pipeline.

My command center for the job search. A kanban pipeline, an inbox scanner that reads Gmail for status changes, SMS nudges on stale applications, and analytics on what's actually converting. The most full-stack of the five, with real accounts and a real backend.

StackNext.js · Clerk · Redis · Gmail API
StatusPublic · sign-in
JobTracker landing page showing a kanban pipeline of job applications across stages from Applied to Offer Fig. 05 · Application pipeline
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The Topsail Collection

19 small-business sites · NC coast

A set of small-business websites I designed and built around Topsail Island, North Carolina, from Topsail Beach down to Sneads Ferry. Nineteen so far, every one live and every one its own custom design. Tap a card to open the real site.

Restaurants8 sites
Oval & Ale Bold taproom board, pizza + craft beer Hampstead
City Café Seaside diner with a live open/closed sign Holly Ridge
Food & drink shops11 sites
Tiki Turtle's Candy-pop flavor wall + boba builder Surf City
'Em R Wings Dark sports-bar sauce wall Sneads Ferry
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About

Columbia · Sciences Po · ex-Privy
Portrait of Noel Turlington
Brooklyn, NY

I'm a product manager who builds to understand. The apps here started as tools I wanted for myself, then became things I ship, maintain, and use every day.

I studied Information Science at Columbia and Economics at Sciences Po, both class of 2023. Most recently I was at Privy, acquired by Stripe in 2026. I work the whole stack: research it, design it, build it, deploy it, then live with it long enough to know what's actually wrong.

A wind tracker so I'd know when to kite. A traffic app so I'd stop missing dinner to the bridge. The work below is that instinct, repeated.

EducationColumbia '23 (Information Science) · Sciences Po '23 (Economics)
RecentlyPrivy → Stripe (2026)
BasedBrooklyn, New York
StackNext.js · TypeScript · Tailwind · Vercel
Off-hoursKiteboarding · golf · reading
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AI setup sessions

Also available · 1:1

A standing offer: one hour, one-on-one, where I set up and tune the AI tools that actually change how you work. On your real workflow, on your machine, before the hour is up.

It started as something friends kept asking me to walk them through. In person in NYC, or screenshare anywhere.

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60-minute live sessionYour desk, your tools, your work. Not toy examples.
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3-4 tools installed and tunedChosen for your role, set up on your devices.
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A printed reference cardYour tools, who to follow, what's worth reading.
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Two weeks of follow-upQuestions, fixes, new tools as they ship.
ClaudeChatGPTWispr Flow GranolaDiaPerplexity
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Contact

Brooklyn, NY