Design for fun, not just
for clients — and ship them.
Personal tools and creative work built outside of client engagements. Proof that I design because I genuinely can't stop — not just when someone's paying me to.
Side projects are where I take the risks I can't always take in client work — and where I stay sharp.
— Kamala Espig
Apps & Tools
Built to solve real problems
Personal tools I designed, built, and shipped — each one started as a genuine frustration.
Started as a one-night fix for a frustrating UX problem. Grew into a full community platform: 78 sprite variants, cloud saves, rarity leaderboard, loot map, and trade board.
A fashion and beauty guidance app that uses your birth chart placements to suggest what to wear. Not a horoscope — a personal style tool grounded in astrology.
A free map showing what's being built near places you care about — data centers, industrial facilities, power plants, air quality, wildfire smoke.
A standalone portfolio site built outside of WordPress — fast, hand-coded, and designed as a clean alternative front door to my work.