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CheapNud — full-stack .NET developer, Belgium. C# end-to-end, Blazor by conviction.
Builder of the CheapBranding ecosystem — a family of open-source tools with one rule: cheap by name, not by craft. Desktop frameworks, media tooling, voice assistants, and whatever else scratches the itch.
flagship
CheapAvaloniaBlazor FLAGSHIPC# Cross-platform desktop framework marrying Avalonia, Blazor and Photino — write MudBlazor UI, ship native desktop apps. CheapCOVAS MOST ACTIVEIN THE LABC# Voice AI ship assistant for Elite Dangerous — COVAS-style speech in, telemetry-aware answers out. CheapHelpers IN THE LABC# The shared toolbox: EF repositories, Blazor components, caching, mailing — the glue under every other Cheap* project.
apps & tools
CheapNights IN THE LABBlazor Co-op game-night planner — franchise roadmaps, session calendar, Plex SSO for the friend group. CheapClerk IN THE LABC# MCP overlay for Paperless-ngx — lets AI assistants file, search and fetch your documents properly. CheapTasks IN THE LABBlazor A todo app that stays a todo app. Simple on purpose. CheapFleet IN THE LABRust Remote network management via Raspberry/Orange Pi gateways — OpenWrt, Pi-hole, and a lean Rust agent. CheapWrapped IN THE LABBlazor Your year in Plex, wrapped — badges, archetypes and witty stats, zero runtime AI. CheapSerial IN THE LABC# Serial-port communication utilities that don't fight you.
media corner
CheapPlexSanitizer IN THE LABC# Plex library sanitization — naming, structure and metadata hygiene at scale. CheapShotcutRandomizer IN THE LABC# Randomizer for the Shotcut video editor — automated cut variety for repetitive edits. CheapGlyphForge IN THE LABC# Glyph and GlyphMatrix processing for custom display hardware. CheapBarcodes IN THE LABC# Barcode generation without the enterprise licensing theater.
stack
C# / .NET Blazor Server ASP.NET Core MudBlazor EF Core Avalonia Azure Docker Proxmox & ZFS Rust (learning)