I make free apps. No ads, no trackers, no business model. Just because I love it.

The Brussels transit network as a data sculpture: thousands of coloured dots drawing the city on a black background
Live data art · STIB

Brussels breathes.

Every dot is a tram, a bus or a metro, at its real position, refreshed every ten seconds.

Full screen

21 visualisations · a cron every 10 s · about 8,640 API calls a day · Three.js

5
apps on the stores
5
sites given away
0
data collected

Latest project shipped

September 2026 · App Store

Parlotte

A speaking-time counter for meetings. It measures who speaks, never what is said.

Released
17 September 2026
Version
1.0
iOS
17 and up
Data
Stays on the device, nothing leaves
Price
Free, no in-app purchase

01 / Workshop rules

4 rules, no exception
§ 1

Free.

No app costs anything. No in-app purchase, no pro version, no subscription.

§ 2

No ads.

No banner, no advertising SDK, no "partners". The screen is yours.

§ 3

No data.

Trajeo records your rides on your phone, nothing leaves the device. No account whenever we can do without one.

§ 4

Made in Brussels.

Designed, coded and shipped from Brussels, by one person. The terraces in Sunny Terraces are a ten minute ride away.

02 / On the stores iOS

6 apps. 5 out, 1 on its way.

Parlotte

A speaking-time counter for meetings. It measures who speaks, never what is said.

PlateWave

Courteous messaging between drivers, via the number plate.

MyRugby

Your rugby club's live score. The coach types, the parents follow. Multi-club, web and iPhone, FR/NL/EN.

UCC United Combat Connections

Social network for MMA, BJJ, boxing and Muay Thai fighters.

03 / Sites given away

When a project speaks to me, I build the site. For free.

Front Anti-ExpulsionsVolunteer campaign website against evictions in Brussels.stopexpulsions.be
Mentor-EscaleA charity supporting unaccompanied foreign minors. Volunteer redesign in progress.mentorescale.be
Cartographie Sans PapiersInteractive map of places occupied by undocumented people.cartesanspapiers.be
Un enfant, un arbreChildren learn reforestation, in the ground and in a nursery, starting from school.1enfant1arbre.org
Aline FarèsWebsite of the author of Chroniques d'une ex-banquière.alinefares.net
The Lab

110 projects since 2023, everything I build, including the failures. lab.thisishumanmade.com

05 / Who
Emmanuel Lemal

My name is Emmanuel Lemal. Thirty years of code, a good part of it teaching front-end at bachelor level in Brussels. I steer AI to move faster, without handing it the wheel. The rest of the time I build apps because I enjoy it.

06 / Contact
man@elastik.eu

Like a bot, but human