Technologist, founder, and builder based in Melbourne.

I'm Nicolas. I co-founded Petal, where we build developer tools for the Elixir community. Our open source components have been downloaded more than 1.4 million times and run in production at companies like Woolworths. I also co-founded Wicked Sites, a studio building for Australian businesses, and these days I spend a lot of my time on AI and how it changes the way we build. Before all of this there were global startup events, a pandemic-born kindness marketplace, and a stint at the UN.

The storefront should be the demo

We relaunched petal.build. The brief was to make a whole ecosystem feel like one product, and to build the site out of the very components it sells.

Typeset, a design skill for AI agents, and 21 new components

Three weeks, and the two things I most wanted to build this year. Petal Components now takes your fonts from three CSS tokens, the playground can hand a whole theme to your coding agent, and a new skill teaches that agent our taste.

Border plasma, and a busy month on Petal Components

Since the playground shipped we have pushed nine releases in about a month. A glowing new border effect, a searchable select that fought back, and a lesson about z-index I should have known.

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Work

  1. Company
    Petal
    Role
    Co-Founder
    Date
  2. Company
    Wicked Sites
    Role
    Co-Founder
    Date
  3. Company
    Kindly
    Role
    Co-Founder
    Date
  4. Company
    Studychatr
    Role
    Founder
    Date
  5. Company
    Slush
    Role
    Head of International Operations
    Date
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