Maddox Schmidlkofer
Computer Science student at Purdue University, passionate about building meaningful software and personal projects.
My Story
I've been coding for about 5 years now and it has always enticed me. I want to work on something that will benefit me outside of work. That's why I'm pursuing computer science at Purdue - while working you can learn things to go back and make personal projects.
I've always found it fun working on personal projects, like my first project, making a rust script that combatted recoil. It was so fun seeing my script work, and seeing my friends use it made it even better.
I don't want to work for someone else on something I don't care about. I want to do something great.
What I've Built
DuckMath — an unblocked games site I started at 16 as a junior at Brebeuf Jesuit. It grew to 150,000 daily users and roughly $150k a year in ad revenue before I sold it to FreezeNova for $120,000 in November 2025. The full story.
MaddoxCloud — a cloud gaming platform that streamed Android games into a browser. Around 50,000 users, sold for $15k. How it worked.
QuackPrep — free past exams and study material, filtered by college. Built because I wanted it myself. Read more.
Tallow— what I'm working on now: a barcode scanner and restaurant map for people avoiding seed oils and other additives. Read more.
Everything else is on the projects page, and I write about how it actually went on the blog.
About This Site
This website is my portfolio and blog. Here you'll find my projects, thoughts on software development, and a glimpse into my life outside of coding. I built it from scratch to showcase my work and share my journey as a developer.
The design is neo-brutalist — bold typography, high-contrast colors, hard drop shadows and interactive bits. It runs on Next.js deployed to Cloudflare Workers, and every page is prerendered at build time. Every piece of it was hand-coded by me.
Interests
Beyond coding, I'm passionate about the outdoors and staying active. You'll often find me mountain biking on trails, hiking with my girlfriend, playing soccer, or at the shooting range. I believe balancing screen time with outdoor activities makes me a better developer and a happier person.