Friday Night Lights
Friday Night Lights sends you a gentle, perfectly-timed reminder before candle lighting every Friday — calculated precisely for your location. Never miss candle lighting again.
Jonathan Goldner
Product leader who came up through the newsroom, now building the platforms that power consumer media, with & without AI.
Career Highlights
Numbers that mattered
200+consumer properties owned
90%reduction in sprint rollover
300%increase in daily page views (MTV News relaunch)
~3MURLs migrated with SEO preserved
7professional certifications
0data privacy regulatory penalties or inquiries
Sites & Apps
Things I've built
GasMath
The true cheapest fill-up for your car right now — live prices, real driving distance, your vehicle's MPG. One verdict, no account.
Is The Light Gold?
Find exact golden hour and twilight times for any location. Perfect for photographers, filmmakers, and videographers.
Is The Pool Cool?
Enter your location and find out if your local outdoor pool is actually worth jumping into. A weather-based pool temperature estimator built for the one question everyone has in July but nobody answers well.
SmoreForm
A zero-data-retention health form tool built for summer camp season. Generates required forms as a client-side PDF — nothing is stored, nothing is transmitted — designed specifically to avoid HIPAA exposure.
Browser Extensions
Shipped to the Chrome & Firefox stores
AppliCat
Job searching is already hard enough. AppliCat takes the most tedious part — filling in the same name, email, phone number, work authorization status, and self-identification fields on every single application — and handles it for you.
Disable Google AI Overview
Removes the AI Overview box from Google search results so you get straight to the links. Simple, fast, no configuration needed.
Get To The Point — Email Assist
Helps you write shorter, cleaner emails. An AI assist that respects your voice instead of replacing it.
Did You Mean? — Personal Typo Catcher
Your own private autocorrect dictionary. Catches your personal recurring typos without overriding everything else.
About
Background
I've spent 15+ years at the intersection of product, platform, and media — most recently at Paramount Global, where I owned strategy and delivery across 200+ consumer-facing properties spanning MTV, Comedy Central, Nickelodeon, and South Park. Before that, a decade in digital news taught me how editorial teams actually work, what breaks under pressure, and how technology either helps or gets in the way. I build with AI hands-on and ship real products, because understanding how things get made makes me a sharper partner to the engineers who build at scale.