Critbooth & Educare65

I vibeCoded two mini apps this week, and on paper they have nothing to do with each other.

One critiques your floor plan or interior/room designs. The other helps you make sense of Medicare.

Stay with me, because there's a single idea underneath both.

Lately I keep watching hours of really good videos — designers, architects, Medicare educators — and coming away thinking the same thing.

All this expertise is out there. It's just buried in a hundred videos, and I need to watch too much to answer my specific questions.

So I built two tools that do exactly that. They take what the experts already teach and turn it into a calm, private answer for your situation. Both are free. Neither one stores your data on a server. And both tell you plainly when it's time to go talk to a real professional.

Here they are.

critbooth.sebastianantony.com

is a design-critique tool. You upload a floor plan, a room photo, or even a page torn out of a magazine, and it gives you architect-grade feedback in seconds.

It doesn't just say "nice couch." It tells you what's working, what isn't, and two ways to fix each thing.

The feedback is grounded in the teachings of two designers, Daniel Titchener and BaiXu. If you read the July 21st 2026 newsletter, Bai Xu is the same designer behind the living-room-mistakes video I linked. This app basically grew out of that rabbit hole.

It's built for people like me. You're furnishing a room, you're not going to hire an interior designer for it, but you'd still love an expert eye before you commit to the sofa placement.

To use it, you just step into the booth. It asks you a couple of clarifying questions, then hands back a structured crit. No account, no upload of your data to some server.

One honest caveat, straight from the app: it's a design-reflection tool, not professional advice. Anything structural, electrical, or plumbing still needs a qualified pro.

educare65.sebastianantony.com

is an independent Medicare decision tool. It walks you through a calm, unhurried interview to help you figure out which coverage options actually fit your situation.

Here's what makes it different. It doesn't sell insurance. It doesn't recommend a plan or a carrier. It has no dog in the fight.

Instead, it's built on the education itself — 340 videos from trusted Medicare educators, distilled into a conversation you can have at your own pace.

Turning 65 and sorting out Medicare is one of those moments designed to overwhelm you. The options change every year, and half the people explaining them are trying to sell you something.

This is the version without the sales pressure. It's free, there's no sign-up, and if you want, it only stores anything on your own device, never a server.

And it's careful about its limits. It points you to Medicare.gov to verify everything, and it tells you to talk to a licensed agent or your state's free SHIP counselor for the actual decisions. It's here to help you understand your options, not to make the call for you.

Why both, why now?

I didn't set out to build a design app and a Medicare app in the same week. It just happened that both problems were sitting in front of me.

But once they existed side by side, the pattern was obvious.

Both take something an expert already knows, and give it back to you as a straight answer to your own question. Privately. For free.

That's the kind of tool I actually want to use. So those are the kind I'm going to keep building.

If you've got a room that isn't quite working, step into CritBooth and see what it says.

If you or someone you love is staring down the Medicare deadline, let EDUcare 65 walk you through it.

Both are live right now. Try them, then hit reply and tell me what worked and what broke.

I built these to be useful, and the fastest way to make them better is to hear where they fall short.