Ship the product
Data model, client, serverless backend, payments, and the emails a product sends when nobody is watching.
Founder / Engineer / Singapore
Anthony
Mauclair
01 Thesis
I take an idea from a blank folder to a product people pay for: the code, the servers, the pricing, and the people around it.
I have been building since I was twelve. I run a competitive Minecraft network I wrote in Java and host myself, I am Director of Technology at a nonprofit teaching financial literacy to rural women in India and the Philippines, and I built and priced GrillTask, a subscription app that runs in nine languages and bills real customers through Stripe.
Away from the keyboard I produce music, edit video, and run live sound. I want to start companies for a living, and I have been practising since before I could drive.
02 Now
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2026–
GrillTask Founder & CEO
Running a subscription app I built solo: product, code, pricing, billing, and support.
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2025–
ARISE Director of Technology
Owning the technology for a nonprofit teaching financial literacy to rural women.
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2022–
StrikeMC Founder
Operating the competitive Minecraft network I wrote, host, and monetize myself.
03 Selected work
GrillTask
Live Product & businessA task-and-rewards app where photo proof unlocks points. Three subscription tiers billed through Stripe, nine languages, and a serverless backend I run alone.
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- Tiers
- 3
- Languages
- 9
- On the team
- 1
StrikeMC
Running Systems & operationsA competitive PvP network built alone at thirteen: 10,000+ lines of custom Java on Linux hardware I administer, funded by its own store.
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- Lines of Java
- 10,000+
- Staff led
- 30
- Age at launch
- 13
ARISE
Active Nonprofit technologyThe website, volunteer pipeline, and impact tracking behind a nonprofit that started with 13 women in rural Maharashtra and now runs workshops in the Philippines.
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- First cohort
- 13
- Grant won
- $2,500
- Applicants beaten
- 1,100+
04 What I actually do
Run the metal
Linux boxes I administer myself: deployment, DDoS mitigation, uptime, and the apology when it goes down anyway.
Price and sell it
Every project I have run was a small business before it was a codebase. Someone sets the price and watches the costs.
Make the media
Six years editing video professionally, music production, live sound, and the lighting and video for a TEDx event.
Smaller things: a Roblox game about marine pollution built with a friend, six years of freelance video editing for creators past 100k subscribers, and the lighting, sound, and video for a TEDx event.
05 Log
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Rebuilt this site again, lighter. No canvas, no framework, no build step.
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GrillTask feature-complete and heading to the App Store.
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Finished Anthropic’s Claude Code 101; their API course is next.
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ARISE won a $2,500 grant from the IB Global Youth Action Fund, picked from 1,100+ applicants across 40+ countries.
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Joined ARISE to run technology and digital infrastructure.
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Founded StrikeMC, age thirteen.
06 About
Most of what I know comes from running real things: servers with players on them, an app with paying subscribers, teams with actual people in them. StrikeMC taught me Java, Linux, DDoS mitigation, and how to lead a staff of thirty while I was still in school. GrillTask taught me to ship a full product alone, from the data model to the Stripe webhook. ARISE is teaching me what technology looks like when the users are volunteers and the bottom line is measured in people reached.
I do not think of myself as only an engineer. Every project I have run was a small business before it was a codebase: someone has to set the price, watch the costs, find the users, and decide what is actually worth building next. On GrillTask that meant choosing three tiers and defending what belongs in each one. On StrikeMC it meant a store that paid for the hardware. I like that work as much as the code, which is why I want to start companies rather than only work at them.
The most useful thing I learned at thirteen was not Java. It was that when the servers go down, the apology and the rebuild are both your job.
Day to day I work in Java and the React Native, Firebase, and Stripe stack, on Linux boxes I manage myself. I build with AI-assisted workflows, mostly Claude Code, which lets a solo founder move like a small team without lowering the bar for what ships. I care a lot about the unglamorous parts: security rules, timezone handling, cache busting, and the emails a product sends when nobody is watching.
The other half of my time is creative. I produce future bounce in FL Studio, play piano by ear, DJ school events on Rekordbox, and spent six years editing video professionally, first in Premiere and After Effects, now in DaVinci Resolve. I speak English and French natively and I am learning Spanish.
I am an IB Diploma student in Singapore, Class of 2027, studying computer science and business. The long-term goal is simple: build AI-native companies that solve unglamorous, real problems, and run them well.