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Everything I've started.

12 projects, newest first. 3 won something. 7 ended or got scrapped, and each of those taught the next one something. Click any row for the details.

  • role
    Founder
    outcome
    Checks what agents actually do against what they were approved to do. Design-partner pilots open.
    tags
    startup
    link
    arlyn.ai
  • outcome
    Live in UW student housing.
    tags
    startup · product
  • role
    Co-founder
    outcome
    1st place at Calvanize (Berkeley Haas). Accepted to the StEP Incubator, F26.
    tags
    startup
  • outcome
    3rd place at the Buerk showcase.
    tags
    startup
  • outcome
    Scrapped after a month of market research.
    tags
    startup · experiment
  • outcome
    Won the Lavin startup competition, which led to the Lavin Entrepreneurship Program.
    tags
    product
  • role
    Co-founder
    outcome
    Raised $1.5k from angels. Processed $10k+ in sales. Every investor repaid plus 20%.
    tags
    startup · product
  • role
    Founder
    outcome
    Team of 15+. Raised $10k+ and gave most of it away. Reached 1,000+ students.
    tags
    nonprofit
  • role
    Club founder
    outcome
    $8k+ in sales. One student I mentored used the same tools to pass $50k in dropshipping.
    tags
    experiment
  • role
    Founder
    outcome
    Third-largest club on campus within a quarter. Lost money every week. Shut down within a semester.
    learned
    Free waffles bought attention, not a business. I spent that attention on my next club.
    tags
    experiment
  • role
    Solo developer
    outcome
    10,000+ lines of code. 1,000+ visits. $0.
    learned
    I learned more from it than from any class I was taking.
    tags
    product · experiment
  • role
    Everything
    outcome
    Inventory cost: zero. Sold out.
    tags
    experiment