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Félix Ménard

Félix Ménard

20 years designing and building digital products.
From popular consumer apps to weird experimental interfaces.
Strategy, development, research — often all at once.

Compulsive creator. Teaching design at UQAM. Open to new collaborations.

Currently exploring:

  • Audio plugin development tools
  • Research infrastructure for medical imaging
  • Musical interfaces and interactive theory tools
  • Local-first AI systems for creative & scientific applications

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A few projects I care about

I'd rather build than promote, but here are a few things I've been tinkering with. Tech moves fast, so these don't always age well — but here are some of the more recent ones.

  • Syntho — A modern tool to develop audio plugins.
  • AskMRI — A full MRI research system — viewer, CLI, and 120+ models.
  • OKSLOP — An AI-generated stock photo platform.
  • Inspire.cards — 100+ card decks to spark creativity. Built for my students.
  • Kicking Lotus — A small wellness business in Quebec that I co-founded
  • Airports.guide — Guides for 300+ airports (I travel a lot and it comes in handy)
  • GuessKin — Taxonomy game (I still can't believe birds are reptiles)
  • DriveChina — Canadian guide to Chinese electric vehicles — embracing my destiny of becoming a car salesman once I'm fully automated
  • Redistributed — A collection of ideas on technology and equality. Because hype is fine, but we also need to think about this stuff
  • Ecole de Montreal — A collective embodied each year by students creating immersive and interactive experiences.

Music

Music used to be my only non-cerebral hobby, but then I fell into music theory and now I spend too much time programming synthesizers and symbolic music analysis algorithms that interest roughly 50 people on the planet.

  • AuraGrid — A MIDI interface that makes composing and understanding harmony easier.
  • Codex Music — Music theory data tools and experimental grab bag.
  • OSC1 — The initial web synthesizer got me into synthesis algorithms and audio plugin compilers.

Dev Tools

Like most developers, I spend way too much time building sophisticated systems to automate my simplest tasks. I also think about protocols that would actually be desirable (for the world), so not all of these are 100% useless :)

  • WebLLM.org — A standard inference protocol for AI on the web.
  • isitme — Passkey auth in two lines of code.
  • MidiMama — Monitor MIDI messages using a simple website
  • Folderblog — Your filesystem is the CMS.
  • Secretdef — Environment variable validation.

Experiments

If it wasn't already clear, I love exploring different things. Here's a few more random pet-projects.

  • Raccook — A cooking blog where I compile my favorite recipes, raccoon edition
  • No Entrance — Ongoing street photography project from around the world.
  • Liveposter — Animate posters with JSON. Built for my students.
  • WeirdPress — Legacy project (~2022) on Photojournalism & AI.
  • Being Agent — A self-help resource BY and FOR AI agents.