berel.me
A portfolio of small, single-purpose Chabad web utilities, mostly vibe-coded, with no logins and no stored data.
On this page
berel.me is a portfolio of community micro-tools, most of them built with Claude Opus 4.5. Each tool solves one small, Chabad-specific problem.
What it is
berel.me/... is a kebab-of-utilities URL pattern. The builder ships small, focused tools rapidly, posts them to the community, and iterates from feedback. The unifying philosophy: do one thing, no logins, no persistent user data, no payment processing.
The catalog (as of 2026-05)
| Path | What it does |
|---|---|
berel.me/dreidel | Dreidel-based raffle for menorah lighting; collects entrant info |
berel.me/raffle | Generic raffle tool for classes |
berel.me/splitmyclass | Class-splitting tool |
berel.me/lo | Google logout shortcut |
berel.me/מעיין | Learning tool (Hebrew name) |
berel.me/findasicha | Find Chabad sichos and teachings |
berel.me/donatext | Quick donation link and payment-method snippets |
berel.me/jemsubtitles | Video subtitle generation, "perfect for shluchim." Bookmarklet at berel.me/jemsubtitles/bookmarklet.php |
berel.me/ashreinutimes | Ashreinu times tool |
berel.me/taste | Weekly luach viewer; grays out inapplicable dates, with manually chosen Torah portions |
berel.me/taste/autoprint | Auto-print extension (e.g. Mishkan Tanya) |
berel.me/grogger | Phone-shake-triggered grogger for Megillah |
berel.me/pdflabel | PDF label printing |
berel.me/crop | Image cropping tool |
berel.me/12pesukim/ | 12 Pesukim tool (Shnas HaChinuch) |
berel.me/sichastitch/ | Sicha-stitching tool |
berel.me/kiddushhachodesh | Rambam Kiddush HaChodesh proof-of-concept |
berel.me/pushkapp/gemini3 | 3D digital pushka tracker (test) |
berel.me/proclamations | Birth and simcha proclamation generator |
berel.me/passover | Passover concept site |
happybirthday.berel.me/gift | Birthday gift link that safely simulates a $1M charge |
berel.me/do-my-shlichus-for-me | Joke link |
Why this matters
This portfolio is the community's proof of what shluchim can ship with AI: small, in-browser, no-login utilities that solve one concrete need at a time. It is the antithesis of the "AI builds my whole CRM" fantasy, and it works.
See Vibe Coding for why this kind of tool stays safe: no databases, no user accounts, no payments. As one member put it, these are "things that won't fail catastrophically if the code gets stale."
The build process
Mostly Claude Opus 4.5 in Claude Code. Many tools start from a single prompt and iterate from community feedback within hours.
Design critique
The builder doubles as the community's resident UX critic. On the early Megillah app, the suggestion was that the grogger should be a shake-triggered button rather than a Haman-name highlighter. Most such suggestions land in shipped products.
Related
- Megillah App, a parallel project that learned from the same UX style.
- Vibe Coding
- Claude
- Toolbox