i was in design school when facebook happened. i taught myself to code to build what i could only mock up. now i build the part nobody designs: the infrastructure ai needs to make sense of the mess.
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vode · 2026 · for myself
on-device dictation for mac. you speak, it types.
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Zzz · 2025 · co-founder
context-aware app for baby sleep. AI-first.
coming soongarbage in, garbage out.
most of the data we generate is chaos. recipes without structure, fitness logs in silos, apps that can't share a line of context. and when an ai tries to help? it hallucinates. i build the infrastructure layer, structured apis, unified schemas, data an ai actually understands. not just apps. the layer underneath.
the rabbit holes
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| May 2026no api, no intelligence the age of ai is an age of apis. an intelligence is only as smart as the data it can read, and dentistry runs on software from a time that never asked the question. | |
| Aug 2025cognitive retrieval systems exhausted parents don't need hallucinated advice at 3am. a retrieval system that knows when to answer, when to ask, and when to say "i don't know." | |
| Jul 2024athletic data protocol you save workouts from ten different creators. none of them talk to each other. a system that reads structure out of any workout video and makes it comparable and trackable. | |
| Dec 2023verifiable health intelligence personalized health recommendations. your data never leaves your device. not a privacy policy. math. | |
| Mar 2023meal metrics ai grandma's recipes don't come with nutrition labels. an api that structures any recipe and calculates macros. |