This is where I put the things I build. Side projects, small tools, and the odd idea that grew bigger than planned.
Turns a tablet you already own into your family’s shared screen on the wall, with the calendar, dinners, shopping list and school timetable in view for everyone. Children tick off quests, earn XP and level up, on the wall or on their own phone.
Personal project · Built with AI · Live
Visit hverdagshelter.no
A self-hosted family-tree app that keeps the family history in one place, on our own server.
Personal project · Built with AI · Live
A free wizard that checks whether you can still complain about a faulty product and writes the letter for you, under Norwegian consumer law. No login, no tracking.
Personal project · Built with AI · Live
Visit klage.baj.no
Send a greeting written on a potato. Yes, really.
Personal project · Built with AI · Live
Visit sendenpotet.noI started building websites in 1996. The biggest undertaking since then was Facilis, where I spent 17 years building and maintaining a complete subscription platform for magazines, from storefront and payments to invoicing, integrations and everything in between. Nearly all of it written by hand.
Web store, subscriptions, recurring billing, Vipps, Stripe, e-invoicing, SMS, single sign-on and our own APIs, all working as one system for magazine publishers.
2005–2022 · Day job · Built from scratch
The hobby that never stops. A PlayStation community with a game database from PS3 to PS5, news, reviews, trailers, screenshot galleries, full trophy lists and a feed of members’ latest platinums. WordPress handles articles and logins; nearly everything else is my own code, lately with a little AI help.
Personal project · Ongoing · Custom code on WordPress
Visit psmania.netAn online community that ran for 20 years and gathered over 4,000 members. Forums, rich profiles, member publishing, an online diary before blogs, meetups across Norway, IRC, a shop and much more.
1998–2018 · Personal project · Built from scratch
A site the local pet shop could update themselves, with news, products and offers.
c. 2016 · Client project
A web shop with card payments.
Client project
A multilingual business site, including right-to-left languages.
Client project
I once volunteered with lions in Zimbabwe and got to walk alongside them. Not many people get to do that, and it has stayed with me ever since.
The Johnsen Labs logo is drawn from one of my own photos from that trip: two of the lions, lying low in the long grass.
These days I'm a dad living in Bærum, just outside Oslo, working as a senior solution manager in AI automation for the insurance industry.
Bård A. Johnsen
A website, a small tool, or something that just needs figuring out. Send me an email and tell me about it.
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