New York City, by way of Georgia
Adam Jacob Johnson builds small, useful things.
A free party planner. A record and a website for my brother's band. A music scholarship in his name. Most of it started as a problem someone I love actually had.
About
I'm Adam. I like building the thing instead of talking about it, and I've found the best problems are the ones sitting right in front of me: my mom trying to work out how much ham feeds twenty-eight, a family potluck that lives entirely in a group chat, a band's story that deserved a better home than an old Facebook page.
I'm not a professional developer. I learned what I needed to make each of these, with a lot of help from patient tools and more patient people. If something here is useful to you, that's the whole point.
Things I've built
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Free party planner
Dinner Caddy
Tell it the occasion and the headcount and it builds the menu, the shopping list in store quantities, and a prep schedule. There's a potluck signup board where guests claim a dish from one shared link, with no app and no account. It exists because the women in my family had been doing this math by hand for years.
dinnercaddy.com → -
The music and the memory
The Dirty Souls
My brother Matt was the lead singer of an Atlanta rock band. Ten years after we lost him, we released the seven songs he never got to, Hold On Tight, and built the band a real home: the music, the story, the photographs. Every dollar it earns goes to the scholarship below.
thedirtysouls.com → -
Nonprofit
Matt Johnson Music Foundation
A 501(c)(3) run by Matt's family, friends, and former bandmates. It funds the Matt Johnson Music Scholarship for Harris County High School students in Hamilton, Georgia, who are pursuing music. Donations are tax-deductible.
mattjohnsonmusicfoundation.org →