Chris Pearson

Builder Personal hobby, professional edge

Snoaper.uk is my hands-on learning lab.

This is not positioned as a second career. It is a serious personal hobby: a way to build around needs I see in real life, learn SaaS, integration, automation and AI by doing, and bring sharper product thinking back into my professional work.

Built by Chris Pearson Snoaper

A launchpad for practical tools, live experiments, and sharper ways of working.

Production Planner Nesty PulseCheck Partner Sonpera DeckForge Snoaper ACC
Practical by design Built in public Focused on impact Always improving

Why It Matters

The hobby builds practical instincts that transfer directly into work.

Personal motivation

Snoaper.uk started as a way to keep learning by doing: building family tools, work-planning products and collaboration concepts from needs I can actually see and use. It keeps me close to the craft of turning unclear needs into practical tools.

Workflow sensing

I get better at noticing repeated friction, broken handovers and unclear ownership.

Product thinking

I practice moving from problem statement to interface, data model and adoption path.

Operator empathy

I build with real users in mind: family, colleagues, teams and the people who need the work to feel easier.

Snoaper.uk Portfolio

Small products, real operating lessons.

Turbine delivery planning with a learning curve.

Production Planner

Turbine delivery planning software for modelling learning curves, adaptable build styles, capacity and delivery timing.

Testing & dev Open website
Clear tablet rules. Less arguing.

Nesty

A family setup and device-control app for keeping child tablets simple, managed, and ready to use.

Live now Open website
Helping teams understand health through conversation.

PulseCheck Partner

AI interview-led engagement for understanding team, department, company and project health through conversation.

Coming later
Portfolio, resources, scrum delivery, budget and time management.

Sonpera

Portfolio resource and scrum delivery system linking agreements, planning, resources, active hours, actuals and analytics.

Live now Open website
Presentation-ready planning material.

DeckForge

PowerPoint planning software for presentation-ready Gantt charts, timelines, milestones, agendas and executive reporting.

Testing Open website
Annual operating rhythm, made visible.

Snoaper ACC

An interactive annual cadence wheel for planning meeting rhythms, date markers, monthly metadata and team alignment.

Testing Open website

What I am learning

  • SaaS thinking
  • Integration mindset
  • Automation habits
  • AI-assisted iteration
  • Product judgement
  • User adoption
  • Team collaboration
  • Real-life use cases

Transfer Back To Work

This is where the hobby becomes a professional advantage.

Better requirements

Building software forces sharper definition of users, workflows, data ownership and acceptance criteria. That improves how I frame industrial problems.

Faster prototypes

I can create quick visual proofs for planning, reporting and governance ideas before a team invests heavily in the wrong direction.

Stronger digital judgement

I understand enough of the build layer to have better conversations about feasibility, security, data, adoption and maintainability.