Software that holds up when the timing, the data, or the hardware doesn't cooperate.

Churches preach hours of teaching every month, and most of it is gone by the next Sunday. Beyond the Message turns each sermon into a searchable archive entry with an AI-written study guide: the big idea, key points, scripture with cross-references, reflection questions members can answer privately, and an Ask tab that answers questions from the sermon itself.

It started as an archive for one church. I rebuilt it as a multi-tenant platform so any church can sign up, with real authentication, per-church signup codes, Stripe subscriptions, and an Expo mobile app kept in step with the web version. It’s now live in production with its first paying church.

In Bible quizzing, the first competitor to buzz answers the question, and close calls come down to a few milliseconds. Letting competitors buzz from their own phones removes the hardware but adds a network: a press can spend tens of milliseconds in transit, and no two phones take the same route. Rank presses by when they arrive and you reward the faster connection, not the faster hand.

So each phone stamps its own press. Competitors join from a browser page with nothing to install, and every phone keeps its clock in step with the host. When a press comes in, the ASP.NET Core and SignalR backend places its timestamp on the shared clock and holds the ruling open for a 30 ms settling window, long enough for a slightly earlier press still in flight to land. Then it ranks by when each button actually went down.