Giovanni Orlando

Independent developer building practical software products.

I design and build full-stack products end to end — multi-channel ecommerce, cloud printing, product-catalog APIs, and consumer apps. Mostly Elixir/Phoenix on the backend, native iOS where it counts, and a self-hosted platform (Flicker) that runs it all.

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Projects

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  Enventory

  A full multi-channel ecommerce and inventory platform. Enventory tracks stock, orders, and fulfillment in real time and publishes to channels like eBay and Shopify — scan to add, print labels, and run every location from one place. A trading-card-focused iOS companion pairs with it, and the whole system draws on SkuSync for catalog data and live pricing and GoPrint for cloud label printing.

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  SkuSync

  A product-catalog API that aggregates metadata and real-time pricing for trading cards and video games. SkuSync normalizes data from across the market — variants, historical trends, and current prices — into one clean schema, so apps like Enventory and its card companion can look up any collectible through a single API. 100K+ products, tracked in real time.

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  Orlando

  GoPrint

  An API that enables cloud printing. GoPrint routes print jobs from your web app to a lightweight edge agent running beside the printer — send labels, receipts, PDFs, and raw printer data with one secure API call, on macOS, Windows, Linux, or a Raspberry Pi. No drivers, no VPN, no print server to babysit.

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  FoodFeed

  A photo-first meal log. Snap a photo and FoodFeed uses AI to estimate the calories and nutrition — no forms, no manual logging. Keep a private diary of what you actually eat, follow friends in a social feed, and track your recipes over time. A Phoenix backend with a native SwiftUI iOS app.

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  Flicker

  The self-hosted hosting platform and control plane that every other project here runs on. Flicker deploys apps together with branchable Postgres, forks a full environment for every pull request, and handles secrets, transactional mail, deploys, and an AI-native ticket system. (You're looking at it — this showcase runs on Flicker.)

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  Lantern

  An open-source toolkit for Phoenix LiveView apps, extracted from real products and shipped as reusable Elixir packages. Lantern UI brings native SVG charts and data-table components; Lantern DB drops an embeddable Postgres table viewer and SQL workspace into any LiveView; and Lantern S3 adds a storage-agnostic uploader and bucket explorer.

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  Subsidybench

  A crowdsourced benchmark for AI coding subscriptions. Subsidybench measures how much real, test-verified work each plan and model delivers before it hits its rate limit, then prices that work in the dollars of a baseline plan you choose, so you can see which subscription actually buys the most work per dollar. Not intelligence scores, not API list prices: what the money really gets you.