Gaston Dana
Pushing Pixels
Rot or Trot: The Cyberpunk Developer Survival Engine 🚀
We’ve all got a graveyard of napkin sketches we never shipped. Rot or Trot is a high-stakes brutalist developer survival engine where raw product concepts face a strict community decay timer. Built for the Flowstep Challenge.
🔗 Official Project Links
Interactive Prototype (Flowstep): Open Multi-Screen Canvas (https://app.flowstep.ai/file?activeFileId=93eaa5e4-6bb8-46dc-8fc6-4642399f09d1)
Live Deployment: Explore Live Site (https://rot-or-trot-liart.vercel.app/)
Source Code Repository (GitHub): View GitHub Repo (https://github.com/gastondana627/rot-or-trot)
📺 Official Media & Walkthroughs
1. Prototype Launch & Announcement
X Announcement: View Post on X (https://x.com/Gaston_Pay_Up/status/2083311196489253066?s=20)
YouTube Launch Reel: Watch on YouTube (https://youtu.be/MXmbMHdpEDU)
LinkedIn Professional Feature: View on LinkedIn
(https://www.linkedin.com/posts/gaston-d-859653184_flowstepchallenge-designengineering-webdev-ugcPost-7489077612628246529-ws4A/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAACuFtgUBVdf9kFE9Wlxn2qi6FBP2M0VX6Ds)
2. Canvas & Flowstep Design Walkthrough
X Architecture Thread: View Thread on X (https://x.com/Gaston_Pay_Up/status/2083315561774170576?s=20)
YouTube Technical Breakdown: Watch Walkthrough (https://youtu.be/5KA8lpmXMW4)
LinkedIn System Breakdown: View on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/posts/gaston-d-859653184_120a22-a855f7-22c55e-ugcPost-7489082451579797504-hItx/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAACuFtgUBVdf9kFE9Wlxn2qi6FBP2M0VX6Ds)
Heres a project landing page of all of the links above and the project as a whole: https://rot-or-trot-q6re.arcada.app/
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⚡ 42 Seconds to Survive: 💀Rot or 🐎Trot Teaser Drop
Green means ship. Purple means graveyard. Your README has 42 seconds to survive. 💀🐎
Testing out my high-velocity AI decision engine for the Flowstep x Contra Challenge!
Check out the full teaser video drops on the following platforms. 🎥
x:
https://x.com/Gaston_Pay_Up/status/2082102706756255878?s=20
TT:
https://www.tiktok.com/@gaston_pay_up/video/7667579358495657246?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=7664268329116796447
Linkedin:
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/gaston-d-859653184_flowstepchallenge-ugcPost-7487869129601740800-xsMa/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAACuFtgUBVdf9kFE9Wlxn2qi6FBP2M0VX6Ds
Insta:
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DbVuqr3g2w8/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
YT Short:
https://youtube.com/shorts/IYmX_lvJ41M?feature=share
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This one hits close to home. 🛠️
For the Base44 #GiveItAGlow challenge, I wanted to give a massive upgrade to a family-owned business that means a lot to me: Champion Auto Glass, a local shop serving South Texas. Having worked there for a summer, I know exactly how hard the team works, and how much manual effort goes into managing operations.
The Before: Their online presence was a static, text-heavy page. Customers had to call or email manually, leaving the team stuck playing phone tag to coordinate vehicle details, glass types, and opening times.
The After: Built completely on Base44, I transformed it into a type-safe, sleek, multi-step web application. Customers can now select their exact service (Rock Chip vs. Windshield Replacement), input their vehicle make/model, and seamlessly book an available slot in seconds.
The Automation & AI Depth: Instead of just sending an email notification, this app wires directly into a custom internal management dashboard:
- Live Job Queue & Quote Manager: Instantly logs every submission into structured customer profiles.
- A custom tuned Champion AI Super Agent: An embedded operational assistant. The team can simply type, "List all the rock chip appointments scheduled for this morning," and the AI instantly queries the backend database to return a structured schedule.
Saving time, eliminating phone friction, and putting AI directly into the hands of a local small business.
Check out the transformation walkthrough below! 👇
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Hi everyone,
I made a benchmark, notebook, and dataset based on the Human Creative Benchmark from Contra Labs.
I utilize Kaggle for all of my R&D and I was happy to build this out. Tested over 30+ leading models to see how well they stack up to when to be technical and when to be creative. The full results are in the Benchmark, theres great data visualizations in my notebook, and you can utilize the dataset I made for it as well. Hope you give a chance to look into!
Benchmark: https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/gastondana/human-creativity-benchmarkhcb-community
Notebook: https://www.kaggle.com/code/gastondana/contra-labs-hcb-open-source-model-eval-4-2026
Dataset: https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/gastondana/human-creativity-benchmarkhcb-community
Social Post: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/gaston-d-859653184_why-efficiency-is-the-new-creative-standard-ugcPost-7455753189171298304-CwEn?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAACuFtgUBVdf9kFE9Wlxn2qi6FBP2M0VX6Ds
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