Tao Wu

Tao Wu

Founder of dist0 · NullReach Ltd

B.S. in Software Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing

01Projects

dist0: Reddit market intelligence

active
2026 / 5

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.

RankEarly: Content writing platform

archived
launched 2026 / 1

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.

Snapulse: Turns Reddit into carousels

archived
launched 2025 / 12

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.

BilingoSub: Bilingual subtitles for YouTube videos

archived
2024 / 8

Movie-grade bilingual subtitles, 95% end-to-end completion rate, with an editor for fine-tuning the result.

My first vibe-coding side project. Looking back, it failed because I didn't understand marketing at the time.

02How I vibe code

I write code with Claude Code and Opus, and content with Codex. I rarely reach for third-party skills — CodeGraph finds the relevant code files, and the rest I build myself:

a /kanban skill I built for project tracking. The agent proposes new tasks and solutions on its own, and it learns from my feedback so it gets better over time. It splits large tasks, prunes its memory regularly to keep the context clean, and pushes me on requirements I've left out. No RAG. It covers the three sides of my day: building, growth and marketing, and validation — the social posts I use to gather feedback.

Content writing

a workflow and a set of verifiers for things like SEO blogs, Reddit posts, and usage guides. Each verifier is a single-pass subagent that catches flaws in the writing. It often over-corrects, so I'm still refining the loop.

Skills for skills

when I close a session, I run a command that turns my feedback into requirements for the verifier skills, so the loop gets smarter over time — the same idea as the Hermes agent.

03Career

Founding Engineer & Senior Product Manager · RisingWave Labs

2021 – 2025

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.

Senior Software Engineer · Xiaomi

Jul 2017 – Mar 2021

Tech lead of Apache Pegasus, a distributed NoSQL database incubated at Xiaomi and later contributed to the Apache Incubator.