NOW PLAYING POKERRANK COINS ---

OWEN TAYLOR

BUILDING THINGS (BADLY) SINCE 2025

Builder of things. Mostly badly, but improving.

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⚠ Under active construction Computer Science + Philosophy Currently not employable It's all PokerRank now Northeastern University, Class of 2029 (hopefully) Shipping code not packages now If you're reading this, I'm already improving
OWEN

I'm Owen, a Computer Science + Philosophy student at Northeastern. I taught myself to build things on the internet, badly at first. Now it's all one thing: PokerRank. Every version taught us something the last one didn't. That's the whole point.

STAGE 02 · PLAYER SELECT

THE QUICK VERSION.

P1

OWEN TAYLOR

CLASS
Computer Science + Philosophy
GUILD
Northeastern, Class of 2029 (hopefully)
ROLE
Co-founder, PokerRank
STATUS
Not employable

CURRENTLY PLAYING

(the only game now)

POKERRANK

CURRENTLY

Computer Science + Philosophy at Northeastern. Building PokerRank with Andrew and Aiden. Learning by doing it wrong first.

PREVIOUSLY

Business student. Worked in a warehouse. Moved boxes. Learned that I'd rather move pixels, even if I'm worse at it.

PHILOSOPHY (now also my major)

Ship it ugly. Learn in public. Cringe at it later. That's the loop. The loop is the skill.

STAGE 03 · NOW PLAYING

POKERRANK

It's all PokerRank now. Everything before it was practice.

PokerRank puzzles screen with puzzle Elo, accuracy, a daily puzzle, and preflop and postflop practice
A ranked heads-up hand on the PokerRank table
PokerRank hand review grading a decision against GTO strategy frequencies

CO-FOUNDER

The app for playing better poker.

Ranked hold'em against real players, practice on spots from our own solver, and a review of every decision you make. Built with Andrew and Aiden: three founders, one table.

4.7APP STORE
8K+PLAYERS
5RANKS
PLAY NOW App Store ↗

LEVEL 1 · PLAY

Ranked, live

Heads-up and 6-max against real players, with Elo matchmaking. Matches run 3, 10, or 30 minutes.

LEVEL 2 · TRAIN

GTO practice

Spots solved by our own solver, plus a daily puzzle. You find out right away what the strategy says.

LEVEL 3 · REVIEW

Every decision graded

After each hand, see the strategy behind every spot and how your choice stacks up.

LEVEL 4 · CLIMB

Fish to Solver

  • Fish
  • Grinder
  • Rounder
  • Shark
  • Solver

UNDER THE HOOD

  • One rules engine in TypeScript, shared by the web app, the iOS app, and the game servers on Cloudflare.
  • A GTO solver we run ourselves, plus a neural net trained on its output that grades every decision.
  • React, React Native, Supabase, Cloudflare Durable Objects.

STAGE 04 · ON AIR

NOW SHOWING

Getting deep into content creation. Results may vary.

SIDE QUEST

Making videos now.

I'm getting deep into content creation. Same rule as everything else: post it rough, get better in public.

A day in the life at Northeastern. My edit, posted by AINU (@ainortheastern). See it on Instagram ↗

Instagram ↗ TikTok ↗ YouTube ↗ Substack ↗

STAGE 05 · CHARACTER STATS

BRUTAL HONESTY

No point lying

THINGS I CAN'T DO (YET)

  • Write production-grade code on the first try
  • Design anything without second-guessing it 47 times
  • Explain what a Docker container is without Googling it
  • Pretend I have 5 years of experience

THINGS I CAN DO

  • Figure it out. Stubborn enough to keep going
  • Ship something ugly and iterate until it's less ugly
  • Learn faster than most because I'm not afraid to be bad
  • Move boxes really efficiently (warehouse perk)

STAGE 06 · INSERT COIN

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PEOPLE SUPPORTED THIS JOURNEY

One coin per player. Costs nothing. Means a lot.

CONTINUE?

Still here?
We should probably talk.

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