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Product Catalog Manager

The local tool that powers the products section you are browsing right now.

Building · Started April 2026 · Tool · Vibe-Coded

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I had more than forty projects scattered across folders, no single view, no way to decide what to publish. That bothered me.

I built this. The Product Catalog Manager scans every vibe-coding folder and other product sources, surfaces them in one visual interface, and lets me toggle what goes live on this site. Edits write back to the source files directly. It powers the products section you're browsing right now.

Every folder also gets a paired label: markdown for agents, HTML for humans. Both stay in sync.

I started in April twenty twenty-six, vibe-coded with AI, built in Node and Express. Still building. If you're curating your own footprint, I hope this gives you an idea of what's possible.

Narrated in my own cloned voice, generated with ElevenLabs v4.

Forty projects scattered across folders is not a catalog. It is a pile.

I had no single view of everything I had built, and no way to choose what to publish without hunting through directories. The products section you are reading right now needed its own infrastructure. I built it.

Product Catalog Manager scans every vibe-coding folder and other product sources, shows them in one visual interface, and lets me toggle which projects publish to the site. Every edit writes back to the source files.

Every folder carries paired labels: a markdown file for agents and an HTML file for humans. Markdown works for agents; HTML works for humans. One tool, both audiences.

It is also where the catalog reference field comes from, the thread that connects the catalog to itself.

Started April 2026. Vibe-coded with AI, in Node, Express and Tailwind. Status: Building. It runs locally; there is no public link. You are looking at what it publishes.

The making

  • Node.js
  • Express
  • HTML
  • Tailwind CSS