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    Projects / outside the day job

    Other things we've built.

    None of these are Amazon work and none of them are for sale. They're the projects that got built anyway — an events radar, two testing publications, and one personal site that keeps getting postponed.

    Disclosure
    All four sites are owned or co-owned by the SYNQ team. TickWise and NoBites Abroad are reader-supported and carry affiliate links; SYNQ earns nothing from them.
    01 / Event intelligencemallorca-business.com ↗

    Every business event on the island, on one radar.

    Conferences, networking evenings, trade fairs and the invite-only rooms — curated across Mallorca and sorted by calendar week, town and category. Built for the people actually doing business on the island rather than for tourists. German-language.

    Mallorca BusinessPalma, MallorcaCurated weeklyDeutsch
    02 / Independent testingtick-wise.com ↗

    Tick repellents, field-tested in Lyme country.

    Every spring the year's repellents go into the woods of Connecticut and get worn through tall grass and leaf litter. Twenty-four products scored on one published rubric, plus a protection-duration calculator, a state-by-state risk index and a removal guide.

    TickWise24 products scoredSince 2022Reader-supported
    03 / Travel healthno-bites.com ↗

    The bug briefing for wherever you're flying.

    TickWise's travel edition. Destination-by-destination briefings on what's actually a mosquito-borne risk and exactly what to pack for it — dengue seasons, malaria zones, the taverna-hour rule — alongside repellent picks and the TSA rules for carrying them.

    NoBites Abroad13 destinationsCDC / WHO sourcedSister site to TickWise
    04 / Personal sitealexanderswade.com ↗

    A career timeline, last touched a while ago.

    Alex's personal site: the route from market research call centre to marketplace performance marketing, laid out year by year. Honestly overdue an update, but it's still the most complete version of the backstory that's written down anywhere.

    Alexander SwadePersonalDeutschOverdue a refresh

    The paid work lives elsewhere.

    If you came here from one of those sites and you sell on a marketplace, the case studies are the more useful page.