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Build notes and honest assessments

Long-form write-ups on the projects behind Jakobsen Analytics — how they're architected, and what they show once the numbers are treated honestly.

Flagship · Full-stack engineering · Live

Building Nordic Trails, a full-stack hiking platform

The design story behind Nordic Trails — a hiking platform I built end to end and now run in production at nordictrails.dk: an async FastAPI + PostGIS backend, a React/MapLibre offline-capable frontend, an optional on-device LLM trail assistant, and a graceful-degradation principle that lets it run anywhere from a small VPS to a Raspberry Pi cluster.

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Flagship · Quantitative data product

Beating the market is hard — notes from building a dividend-strategy backtester

A methodology write-up: how a 251% backtest collapsed once I made the simulation honest — survivorship-free, no look-ahead, real costs, Danish tax — and how a five-phase machine-learning study found real selection skill but no edge over the index.

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