Kristi Edleson

I'm an operator and builder who likes getting dropped into unfamiliar problems and figuring out what needs to happen next. Lately, I've been teaching myself to build and ship software.

New York → Paris → San Francisco

01 — What I've built

Personal site · work in progress

This very page

A work in progress — me pushing the limits of what I can make by pairing my own design sense with prompting coding agents.

Web app · real backend + DB

30 Plants

Helps you eat 30 different plant foods a week. Sparked by a gut-microbiome documentary — and wanting to ship a real backend + database.

veggie.sh →

Pet project · GitHub data

Top Weekend Coders

A pet project ranking SF devs by how hard they cooked on weekend GitHub commits. The dataset's still growing as I widen the scrape and sharpen the accuracy.

top-chefs-of-sf →

02 — Blog

Jul 2026 · First post

How I learned to stop worrying about what I didn't know and love the terminal

Less than a year ago I was afraid of the terminal. Now I'm buying domains, shipping an app from scratch, and deploying it to production. Here's how I got over the hump.

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03 — Hobbies & Interests

NYT Crossword Puzzles
Metro Systems & City Planning
Movies & Film
Fitness
Fashion