Founder & builder · Singapore
Alongside my corporate and academic work, I found and build independent digital ventures. Six of them sit under Nightingaley and share one quiet problem: people drifting apart before anyone notices.
Purpose
These ventures grew out of Nightingaley Pte. Ltd., which I founded to prevent social isolation by spotting relationship decline early — before loneliness sets in. Each product tackles a different moment where people quietly drift: a friend who goes silent, a regular customer who stops coming, an evening lost to a phone.
Others keep what matters from slipping away in a different way: a way to keep voice notes in two languages, and a music project that turns real memories into songs.
All are built and run by me, with AI tools as part of the craft.
Nightingaley and the FiveClose family of apps — early signals instead of late regrets.
Founder · Nightingaley Pte. Ltd.
Prevents social isolation by spotting relationship decline before loneliness sets in.
Visit nightingaley.com →Founder · A Nightingaley app
A private circle of up to five people — with no feed, followers or likes.
Visit fiveclose.com →Founder · Regulars by FiveClose
Helps cafés, kopitiams, salons, gyms and tuition centres know their regulars by name. Customers scan a table QR card and tap “I’m here” — no app or account.
Visit Regulars →Founder · FiveClose Focus
Phones face-down, together: focus sessions with friends or on your own, using the same FiveClose sign-in.
Visit FiveClose Focus →Tools for keeping thoughts and memories — in words and in song.
Creator · silent · 陈默
Nightingaley’s music project: Chinese-language lyrics drawn from real memories, composed into music and music videos with AI tools.
Visit music.nightingaley.com →Founder · A Nightingaley web app
Hold a button and speak in English, Mandarin or a mix. The note is transcribed, translated to English and added, dated, to the top of one OneNote page.
Visit VoiceNotes →Outside Nightingaley — from a career in technology: years selling software, AI in my research and teaching, and now data centres.
Nightingaley makes fading relationships visible before it is too late. Global DC Wiki brings the same instinct to the field I have worked in all my career: it makes the world’s data-centre build-out visible — what is live, what is being built and what is only planned — so people can see where AI’s capacity is really going.
Founder & creator · Independent of Nightingaley
A searchable register and map of 8,000+ data centres worldwide, tracking live, under-construction and planned capacity in MW by market, operator and stage.
Visit globaldcwiki.com →Interested in any of these ventures, a collaboration, or a conversation about technology and human connection? Reach me on LinkedIn.