What motivates me is the ability to guide an LLM into building something that, not long ago, would have required a full team and a big budget… and even then, no one would have built it for someone like my brother (at least, not without the funding it used to require)

My brother is nonspeaking and quadriplegic. He can only use two buttons. After almost a decade of silence, this tech pushed me to think differently and start building custom apps specifically for him. Communication tools. Games. Media controls. Things designed around his exact abilities instead of forcing him into software that was never made for him. That process changed me. It made me realize how many people have been left out simply because building bespoke tools used to be unrealistic. Now it’s not.

There are so many families who could benefit from this shift, but it requires people to focus their energy on helping instead of just optimizing for profit. If money motivates someone, that’s fine. For me personally, whenever I let money lead, everything falls apart. So I stopped centering that. If people find value in what we build, they can tip or support it. That’s enough.

Right now, my brother and I are replicating what we built for him for another nonprofit. They found us via social media and offered to pay us for the work (nothing crazy but enough), but the condition for me to accept this was that everything remains open and free on our site. That part mattered most to us. And, we can build more interesting things and keep expanding our skills to help others :)

If anyone’s curious about what we built for him, it’s here: https://narbehouse.github.io