Data layer: extracts and groups pain points on Reddit, then pushes those signals downstream — Slack, email, webhook and API. An open foundation for market signals on Reddit, covering pains, self-promo, competitor mentions and more.
Marketing layer: content frameworks that turn signals into ready-to-publish marketing assets like pattern reports. It self-improves its quality guardrail as users give feedback.
Keyword research, topic clustering and content generation via skills.
Shut down after Google raised its content-quality bar, so AI-generated content no longer ranked. Generated roughly $1k in revenue before closing.
A carousel maker for Reddit — the general market was already crowded, so I niched down.
No ads, no marketing. 60 users from pure organic traffic.
My first vibe-coding side project. I had little idea how to do marketing, or how niche a product like this should be at the start.
At that point I knew how to work with a mid-size team, but hadn't yet learned to work with AI.
Founding engineer of the RisingWave kernel (open source). Main contributor to the initial versions of SQL processing. Started as PM for the kernel, then focused on RisingWave Cloud, the hosted service.
Tech lead of Apache Pegasus, a distributed NoSQL database incubated at Xiaomi and later contributed to the Apache Incubator.
