Products built with strategy. Shipped with AI.
I'm Mariel Breuer, a product manager who doesn't just vibe-code — I define problems, write specs, build phased roadmaps, and then build fast. Every product here started with a brief, a user, and a reason.
How I work
Every product here started with a brief, not a blank file. The AI is the accelerant — the thinking is still PM work.
Who is the user? What's the core job to be done? What makes this worth building? No code until this is solid.
Feature lists, user flows, and a written product brief. Decisions are made before development begins, not during.
Prioritized phases with dependencies and milestones. Nothing sits in a vague "someday" pile — it has a place in the plan.
With strategy locked, AI handles the execution velocity. Prototype → iterate → ship, without a team of five.
The portfolio
"Tax clarity for German freelancers — no Steuerberater required for the basics."
A browser-based tax calculator built specifically for German freelancers. Track monthly income and expenses, estimate Einkommensteuer and TK health insurance, monitor quarterly VAT deadlines — all in one file, with no data ever leaving your device.
"The calendar app built for how a freelance PM actually works."
A full-featured productivity app combining calendar, tasks, kanban, smart scheduling, and multi-user auth — built from scratch in Next.js with PostgreSQL. Built because no existing tool had exactly what a freelance PM needs.
"Named after a woman who started over. Built for women who are starting forward."
EIA is named after the founder's grandmother — a woman who fled WWII and rebuilt her career in her 40s as a sociologist. The app helps women in tech facing compounded barriers (displacement, career gaps, restrictive environments) break into the international remote market. Safely.
"Feed your friends. From Berlin to Warsaw, one pixel at a time."
A retro pixel-art platformer starring Loca, a black cat on a mission. She travels 800km from Berlin to Warsaw across 13 chapters and 4 seasons — collecting food, feeding shelter friends, facing enemies, and finding allies along the way.
AI lets me build products that would have taken a team of five. But the thinking that makes them worth building — that's the same work it's always been.
Good products start with honest problem definitions, real tradeoffs, and a clear answer to "why does this matter?"
That's what you'll find in everything built here.