I'm maintaining a very selective list of some of the things I've built. So I'm not including stuff like my embarrassing Club Penguin YouTube channel, the physics/sci-fi comic-strips I drew for my imaginary science magazine, random Discord bots or a simple no-code website-maker I made in 2013. Nah actually, I'm kinda proud of that last one - it was the first "software" I built and shipped.
Marketing tool for WhatsApp - easy bulk messaging, 'Share on WhatsApp' URLs, texting unsaved numbers etc.
Calculator and visualizer for how much time one could save in the new decade.
A practically infinite gallery of every image that can exist.
Objective: AI model that generates anime from manga. Not yet achieved.
A 3D visualization of English vocabulary; a visual thesaurus. Vectorized 30,000 common English words and used t-SNE to reduce them to 3-dimensional vectors.
Translation of physical modalities to textual and visual art.
(read as SummarEyes) Search inside a YouTube video. I'm currently rethinking form factor and UX for this utility for a different idea.
Low cost electronic circuit that automatically reduces headlight intensity in the presence of oncoming traffic to reduce glare and try decrease accidents due to the Troxler effect.
Using zero-knowledge proofs to do things with your internet history while respecting your privacy
A crypto wallet with social features like the ability to search for addresses or ENS and view their NFTs and other tokens.
Utility to get a webpage's preview and metadata. Features like a metadata previewer and a REST API endpoint.
Ephemeral group chat (aka a lightweight IRC) that looks exactly like WhatsApp (complete with dark & light themes) with some Discord inspiration. Features like rooms, online members list, welcome & goodbye messages etc. This was for a lab requirement in my DOS class where we had to make a simple client-server chat. Did that in 5 minutes of hacking and decided to keep adding stuff to see how ridiculously over-the-top I could make this with a few more hours.
A more capable question-answering system than ChatGPT (at least the ChatGPT of January 2023). The tool was able to autonomously do math and use recent news to answer questions - something ChatGPT couldn't do back then. ChadGPT was made redundant eventually when Bing Sydney and AutoGPT arrived on the scene.
Electronic device that aimed to eliminate waste power consumption by redundant lighting.
A breakdown I wrote in 2019 of a viral tweetstorm: Erik Torenberg on How To Be Successful
A how-to Buildspace asked me to write in 2022: Build a GPT-3 app to write really good DMs
I am very excited about where we're headed as a species with technology and feel a great sense of urgency to contribute to that in much more meaningful ways. This means that the projects I do naturally become higher commitment and longer term. I hope to see some of these projects taking the form of venture scale startups and contributions to scientific research. I don't know the specifics yet; all I can say is that the future looks very, very exciting!
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