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Every market problem has a virtual solution.
The hard part is no longer whether a thing can be built. It's whether someone will.
Finding good problems, building good solutions.
Portland, OR // CS @ PSU // she/her
Every market problem has a virtual solution.
The hard part is no longer whether a thing can be built. It's whether someone will.
Finding good problems, building good solutions.
Portland, OR // CS @ PSU // she/her
Signout is a set of tools for medical residents. I was given a defunct startup to revitalize, and I chose to keep it completely free. The existing services in this space were disorganized, overpriced, and predatory, and instead of using AI to build another vibe-coded startup, I realized I had the power to build and run the entire platform for the cost of a couple cups of coffee a year. There was absolutely no reason for me not to.
Signout offers free screening for international applicants to help them save hundreds in application fees, by showing them which programs self-report automatically rejecting them based on visa status, year of graduation, and so on. It also aggregates vetted free resources for every step of the residency process, and sources rare open positions to give current residents more horizontal mobility.
We currently have ~2,700 active users, and I'm constantly working to improve distribution and accessibility and to build new tools, so that nobody has to spend any more money than they absolutely have to.
My longest-running project, and the one that changed how I think about AI most. A check-in system on Claude Code: every morning I set intentions and plan the day, every evening I review what I actually did. I've run it daily for four months.
An experiment in feeding months of my journals, conversations, and therapy sessions into Claude Code, until it could surface the patterns I'd felt but never been able to name. Open source, and more art project than product.
A fog-of-war urban exploration app for iOS. Walk around your city and reveal the map as you go. Totally free, no account, no tracking. I noticed nothing like it existed so I built it.
Hypnotic spiral generator. Parametric curves, exportable SVGs, infinite rabbit hole energy. Named after the Junji Ito manga because obviously. Great for hypnotizing my roommates.
An algorithmic experimental music generator. Inspired by Aphex Twin and Boards of Canada, named after the greatest musician I know.
I wanted to learn mouth trumpet so I built a pitch detector that combines everything I liked from existing ones under one free roof. Works great as a PWA.
I started a computer science degree in 2023, right as AI began rewriting every assumption I had about my future. For a while that scared me. But the only way out is through, so I decided to meet AI with curiosity about what it could do for me instead of dread about what it might take. That choice is the reason I do what I do now.
College let me wander a lot of disciplines, from biomimetic robotics in PSU's Agile and Adaptive Robotics Lab to imaging systems that analyze gelatin microparticles. Today my focus is narrow and deliberate: getting AI and fast, cheap software into the hands of people who'll use it for good. Right now that means free resources for medical residents (if I can build it for free, they should have it for free) and working with Farallon Strategies, an environmental consulting firm, to build tools that help California local governments plan for climate adaptation.
Not everyone benefits from AI equally. I want to help close that gap, and put this kind of productive power where it's needed most.
When I'm not building things, I'm tending my 72 houseplants, reading philosophy, or playing guitar and harmonica.
Want to talk? [email protected]