Product Engineering · 2022-2025
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Founder-built AI social platform: 60+ pages in React/TypeScript with a YOLOv8 vision pipeline and Claude RAG recommendations.
- Role
- Founder
- Timeline
- 2022 to 2025
- Team
- Solo, built with Codex
- Year
- 2022-2025
Overview
An AI-enhanced social platform I designed and shipped solo: 60+ pages and 50+ components in React and TypeScript on Node.js and PostgreSQL, iterated from a Flutter prototype to React for production.
Challenge
Building a complete social product alone means owning design, engineering, AI, and infrastructure with no team to absorb the surface area.
Solution
Built a YOLOv8 computer-vision pipeline for image processing and RNNoise audio noise suppression, shipped Claude-powered RAG recommendations on a Supabase vector DB, and ran user research, usability studies, and A/B testing to set unified UX standards. CI/CD via Vercel.
Impact
- 60+ pages and 50+ components, shipped solo
- YOLOv8 vision and RNNoise audio AI features
- Claude RAG recommendations on a Supabase vector DB
- 2.5+ years of iteration