Russell Hoy

Building well designed interfaces to solve tricky problems.

Hello & Welcome

I'm Russell Hoy, a friendly human with a nerdy interest in software development, design, and using those for the public good. When I'm not thinking about all that stuff, I'm playing some guitar or enjoying some nature-based adventures.

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Projects

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Lesson Robot: an AI Assisted Lesson Planning product

Building a (barely) profitable education technology product in a couple weeks using ChatGPT
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Co-Up: Quadratic Voting in Home Ownership Associations

Designed and built an application to make the 'quadratic voting' attractive and intuitive for communities who want to improve their self-governance.
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My Storybook

I co-founded a startup for students and teachers to make and print their own storybooks. Now our community of authors have written over a million storybooks!
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Writing

Breaking Down the Rules for Better Government Technology

Why government technology initiatives require civil servants to have more discretion, not less.

Computers & Competence in Canadian Government

A work in progress exploration of how our government came to struggle with technology.
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