tPortal · September 2026 – present · live
One week into university, I started building my own software for it.
I built tPortal in my first week at the University of Toronto, after running into the usual pile of academic systems. It pulls deadlines, timetable, class prep and campus events out of Quercus and ACORN and puts them on one screen, refreshed every 15 minutes. It grew into a desktop app, a mobile web experience and AI-assisted planning.
I shipped eleven releases in the first six days and had more than 50 beta users within the first month. That experiment helped lead to Armin.
ACORN timetable + Quercus deadlines, refreshed every 15 minutesthe next class, with its readings
every course on one list; the rubric is a click away
what the course is really testing, from the syllabusThe first week, commit by commit
2026-09-11 · 23:50Ignore build outputs; Windows smoke test logs via --enable-logging
What I did, and what the team did
Mine
- Designed, built and shipped the desktop app; ran the beta and the releases.
- Brand, launch posters and the social accounts.
Team
- Built and shipped by me.
Eleven releases in the first six days (33 tagged builds). verified · Git tag history, Sep 11–16 2026.
More than 50 beta users; more than 40,000 impressions on the launch posts. verified · Internal account records (35 accounts on Oct 10 2026). Private; the count is not published.
What changed
- Shipping every day to people you will see in lecture tomorrow is a very honest feedback loop.
- A student tool lives or dies in the first thirty seconds after install.