Co-founder for openYak, doXmind
Every on-device model Ora uses — ASR and the translator LLM — is pulled from Hugging Face on first launch. The Swift-native HFHub downloader and swift-transformers library made it trivial to ship a weights-free binary that fetches what it needs at runtime, with tokenizer configs properly versioned alongside the weights. No competing registry matches that combination of coverage and Swift ergonomics.
Ora's macOS app, iOS companion, Python CLI, and even this launch kit were all built with Claude Code. Terminal-native and agent-first — it executes end-to-end tasks (refactoring, building, codesigning, notarizing, pushing releases) rather than just suggesting code in an editor. For a solo dev shipping a native app across three platforms in a few weeks, that autonomy was the difference between launching and not.
Notion's block-based editing and database model inspired how we designed doXmind's Database Blocks. We built on that foundation with native AI multi-agent support and interactive data visualizations.
