I'm Nick Doherty
Co-founder at Telescope. BS in Computer Science + Design from Northeastern. I've been sole or early engineer at multiple startups owning products end-to-end.
Projects
Telescope
Co-founded a subscription-based curation platform for curators and tastemakers. Own all product engineering, drove a subscription model pivot, built hybrid search (OpenAI embeddings + pgvector), and currently focused on travel curator acquisition. 2,500+ waitlist signups, 500+ account signups
plinq
Dependency-free Web Audio API wrapper for adding programmatic UI sounds to web apps. Preset sounds, custom synthesis, and a clean API.
plinq orb
Conversational UI for designing sounds with plinq. Describe any sound, hear the result through a reactive orb.
Previous work
Fluidkey
Unified web app into cross-platform Expo codebase (web/iOS/Android) with platform-specific auth architecture; shipped in 12 weeks
Kiosk (formerly Mirror)
Built checkout and rewards system powering 1M+ transactions; co-built React Native social app shipped to 500+ Testflight testers
Other repos
Agora - Single global document, multi-person editor
Sisyphus - Multi-tenant webhook system demo
Hydra - CLI session manager for multiple Claude Code instances
Now
Open to senior FE or full-stack roles. Contract work lives at Switchback.