A space for exploration and learning
Building things I
care about
Board games. Software. Coffee. Community.
About this place
I'm a product owner and have managed a coffee shop, dabbled in video production and ran a carousel for a summer. I'm exploring where my passions intersect. I love board games — not just playing them, but what they create: moments of genuine connection, conversation, and community.
Lilley Labs is where I experiment with ideas. Some might become tools. Some might just be fun to build. The goal is to create things that matter to me and hopefully to others who share these interests.
Eventually, I'd like to build a career around this — something that blends what I love building with why I love building it. For now, I'm exploring.
Projects
PlayVault
A personal tool for board game tracking. I built PlayVault to track my growing board game collection and plays — what I own, who I've played with, and how often I return to favorites. It started as a way to scratch an itch, but it's grown into something that maps onto how I actually think about my games.
playvault.lilleylabs.com →Workout Tracker
A lightweight workout logging app that syncs sets, reps, and weight straight to a Google Sheet. Log workouts for multiple people, track progress over time, save personal records, and reuse templates for recurring routines.
workout.lilleylabs.com →Exploring next
Always thinking about what's next. Board game adjacent tools. Video experiments. Whatever catches my interest and feels worth building. This is an evolving space — come back to see what's being explored.
Ideas in progress
Thoughts
Why board games?
They're one of the few spaces left where people sit together without their phones, have conversations, and just... connect. That's rare. That matters.
Tools for communities
The best tools don't sell you something — they help you do what you already love better. I'm interested in building things that serve existing communities rather than trying to build communities around products.
Slow building
Not everything needs to be a startup. Some things are just worth making because they're interesting, or fun, or because they solve a problem you actually have.