Hi, I'm
Dorien.
Hero Apps is my one-person studio. I build small AI tools for problems I see up close: newcomers who can't reach the plumber in Spanish, growing on X, turning a thread into a skill. Each one does a single job, right in your browser.
PoquitoTalk
Velocity Radar
SKILL.md name: claude-hooks when: "set up hooks" steps: - create .claude/hooks - add PreToolUse…
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No setup marathon. Open the app, do the thing, get back to building.
Turn X posts, threads and docs into clean, structured skills for your AI coding agent: Claude Code, Google Antigravity or Windsurf.
Your AI co-pilot for winning hackathons. It reads the rules so you don't miss a requirement, keeps your milestones on track and drafts your pitch.
Type in English, Dutch or whatever you speak. PoquitoTalk turns it into a natural Panamanian Spanish voice note and sends it on WhatsApp, so the plumber, landlord or mechanic actually understands you.
A weekly leaderboard of the fastest-growing X creators under 5,000 followers. See who is breaking out right now, study what they post, and track your own velocity with the free Chrome extension.
No bloated dashboards. Every Hero App solves one specific problem, so it's quick to learn and hard to outgrow.
Where AI is involved you can bring your own API key. You stay in control of your costs and what you share.
Everything runs in the browser. No installs, no onboarding call, no 14-step setup. Just the tool.
RankBeacon is our upcoming SEO & GEO suite: small tools that help you rank in search results and get cited by ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews. Pick the ones you want and we'll tell you the moment they launch.
I'm Dorien Van den Abbeele. With a Master's in Translation I founded VDA Translations and spent over a decade localizing software, fashion and tourism brands from English, Spanish and French into Dutch and Flemish. Translation teaches you one thing above all: the message only counts if the person on the other side actually gets it.
I moved to the Caribbean side of Panamá and, with my Panamanian partner, brought an abandoned cacao farm back to life. Sloths, fireflies, bioluminescence and tree-to-truffle chocolate became daily life. As the neighbour who speaks Spanish, I also became everyone's translator.
Localization pulled me into SEO, SEO pulled me into prompt engineering, and AI coding tools pulled me the rest of the way. I started building in public on X, entered hackathons and won four of them, most recently a prize at Shipaton. Every app I ship starts as a problem I had that week.
PoquitoTalk exists because I kept translating for newcomers in Bocas who could not reach their plumber. Velocity Radar exists because I wanted to learn from creators who grow faster than I do. Tweet2Skill and Hackathon Hero came out of my own workflow. If one of them saves you an hour, tell me. If it doesn't, I want to hear that even more.
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