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Projects

20 projects — 11 hackathon entries, plus products, client work and experiments. Team credits on every hackathon; results only when they’re verified.

Results

  • Hackathon · AI · 2026

    LockSmith

    A deploy gate for PostgreSQL migrations: it flags lock-taking statements, proves the locks in embedded Postgres, estimates blocking time, and has IBM Bob rewrite them for zero downtime.

    • Next.js
    • React
    • TypeScript
    • Tailwind CSS
    • +3
  • Hackathon · AI · 2026

    ThesisCircuit

    Paper-only options research agents: three strategies compete, a critic objects, and a fail-closed risk governor has the final say. NO TRADE is a first-class, audited result.

    • Python
    • FastAPI
    • alpaca-py
    • Next.js
    • +3
  • Hackathon · No-code · 2026

    LaunchMap AI

    A launch-readiness workspace that turns an incomplete client brief into a readiness score, gaps, a risk register, follow-up questions and an editable launch checklist a person approves.

    • native.builder
    • React
    • Vite
    • Tailwind CSS
  • Hackathon · AI · 2026

    CaptionForge AI

    Turns a short video clip into four caption styles by sampling frames in the browser and calling Fireworks models, with honest fallbacks and human review before anything is posted.

    • Next.js
    • TypeScript
    • Fireworks AI
    • Docker