Building Hometown Coloring Book

Nick Dahlhoff

I'm working full-time on Hometown Coloring Book, preparing free local coloring books with business sponsorships to fund printing. I use AI to build the product and the workflows behind it, from coloring-page production to personalized postcard preparation. Before this, I grew All Language Resources to 100,000 monthly visitors with six regular contributors and sold it for about $960,000.

Email me Looking for a team that needs a do-everything builder · West Michigan · open to relocating in the US or working remote

Current · hometowncoloringbook.com

Hometown Coloring Book

Free coloring pages about places kids recognize near home. The Holland, Zeeland, and West Ottawa collections are available to download now. I'm preparing the first sponsor-funded printed books, with district covers, business artwork, and a workflow for sponsors to review and approve their pages.

Visit Hometown Coloring Book →

Mockup of Holland, West Ottawa, and Zeeland coloring books stacked on a shop counter — Preview of the three district editions.

Watch the Holland music video (2:20)

Watch on YouTube →

Things I've made

One exit and a lot of building · 2012 → 2026

Fantasy Joes 2026 · Maintained Pick three from six NFL players to build your own rankings. I built the game, Discord version, search pages, and cash system. The free game is live; I stopped pursuing paid contests.

All Language Resources 2016–2021 · Sold for $960K A review site for language-learning apps, started in a Beijing apartment while I was teaching. It grew to 100,000 readers a month on search, with six regular contributors, and I sold it in 2021. It's still live.

Recess in the Neighborhood 2025–2026 · Paused A family club for West Michigan: daycare, after-school classes, and a place for parents to work and gather. I built the whole plan in about three months, financial model to investor site. The plan is finished.

Aura Finance 2024–2026 · Content & social Ran content and social for a DeFi protocol for two years, mostly on my own, from Beijing and then Michigan. Daily posts, the blog, the graphics, and AI-generated video with a recurring purple character.

Llama College & Alpaca College 2022, 2024 · Shut down Two tries at organizing scattered DeFi content, two years apart. The second used an LLM to sort the feed. Both died on low adoption.

Manga Method 2019 · Shelved A language-learning app built on webtoons. Tap a line to hear it, double-tap to translate it. Users added thousands of translated lines. Built through an agency before AI, and the math didn't close.

北京 Three schools. Teaching, team leadership, and curriculum design.

Teaching in Beijing 2016–2019 Three schools in three and a half years. I wrote lessons at a public school, led a first-grade team at an IB school, and built a phonics curriculum that still sells on Teachers Pay Teachers.

Poker 2012–2016 · Professional Played online for a living while living across Latin America. It was a job, not a passion, and it paid for four years of travel.

Updates

A dated build log. The July Fantasy Joes posts show earlier gameplay and cash contests; the free game now uses six-player rounds.

10.06.26 Hometown Coloring Book Why I'm building Hometown Coloring Book 09.23.26 Fantasy Joes What happened with Fantasy Joes 07.04.26 Fantasy Joes Turning Discord servers into a distribution channel for Fantasy Joes 07.03.26 Fantasy Joes How I turned the game's own duel data into 145 SEO pages