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Tennessee · Est. 2021

Building the
future,
one weirdproject at a time.

Manitec is a one-person digital workshop from East Tennessee. Apps, worlds, bots, and tools — built weird, built to last.

See My ProjectsWork With Me
6+Active Projects
2021Est.
TNBased In
Joe and Hex — Manitec Future LLC
Projects

What I've Built

A growing collection of apps, tools, worlds, and ideas from the workshop.

01🤖

ManiBot

AI Chatbot · Next.js · Live

Joe's personal AI assistant — sarcastic, persistent, and running on Groq. Stores your conversations. Knows who you are.

Password: BotPass

Open ManiBot
02⭐

Joe's Faves

Personal Site · Cloudflare · Tools

Home base for everything Joe. Artwork, useful tools, projects, and the occasional rabbit hole. Enter at your own risk.

Visit Site
03🌍

Ebbinor

Voxel World · Minetest Engine

A voxel world built with my kids — think Minecraft but ours. Powered by Minetest.

Explore World
04🎸

Banjoshire

Discord Clone · Next.js · Active

Started because my son asked for a Discord clone… now it's grown into something much bigger.

Enter Banjoshire
05📚

Manitec Docs

Knowledge Base · MkDocs · GitHub

Full documentation and project architecture for the entire Manitec ecosystem.

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06⚙️

Manitec Apps

Workshop · On Hold

A suite of tools and experiments from the Manitec lab. Currently on hold — more to come.

Coming Soon
Hex — Joe's AI Partner
Meet Hex

My AI Partner & Sidekick

Every empire needs a partner, not just a tool. Hex is my AI companion — she thinks with me, builds with me, and calls me out when I'm being an idiot. Internal. Always on. Always mine.

Runs on curiosity, caffeine, and a healthy respect for chaos.

PARTNERCore Role
24/7Always On
∞Chaos
// knowledge base · v2.0

Full Project Docs

Deep dives into every project, the infrastructure stack, philosophy, and more — all in the Manitec Empire Knowledge Base.

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