Building Products

non-exhaustive lists of products/projects/stuff I built over the years

see also my 100+ repos on github

programmable trains

• one-line: minecraft/factorio/dwarf fortress but everything is programmable
• status: live, WIP
• url: teaser video

theselfdrivingboat.com

• one-line: solar panels in the oceans on self driving boats
• status: live, paused
• url: https://www.hodlintheocean.com/, lots of videos on youtube, lots of code on github

geohot/tinygrad

• one-line: contributed to george hotz repo and got 200k views on YouTube
• url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjAH_CJsfjs

milkshake.gg

• one-liner: website for people to sell their live coding classes
• status: live, un-mantained
• users: ~100
• url: 1 minute demo video, milkshake.gg
• when: 2020, 23 ys old, London

habiter

• one-liner: website to help online learners find a study partner
• status: live, un-mantained
• users: ~1000
• url: 1 minute demo video, habiter.app
• when: 2019, 23 ys old, London

miaTV

• one-liner: automatically generating YouTube videos from spanish wikipedia for ads profit
• status: live, un-mantained
• users: ~1500 viewers
• url: YouTube channel, github.com/SolbiatiAlessandro/MIAproject
• when: 2019, 22 ys old, Romania

relna

• one-liner: reinforcement learning arena, Kaggle for reinforcement learning
• url: github.com/SolbiatiAlessandro/relna
• when: 2019, 22 ys old, USA

TODAG

• one-liner: productivity cli with tasks organised as a Directed Acyclic Graph
• status: used for 3+ years
• url: private repo after accidentally leaked NDA stuff on github :(
• when: 2018, 21 ys old, Shanghai

anyhelper.net

• one-liner: job-hunting for foreigners in China who don't speak mandarin
• status: I have been CTO for 2 years, company still running with seed funding
• users: ~10.000
• url: expensive marketing video featuring me with funny hat, product demo video, anyhelper.net
• when: 2017, 20 ys old, Shanghai

humanio.xyz

• one-liner: collect AI training data from low-pay Chinese workers
• status: co-founded with https://twitter.com/0xferruccio/
• url: github.com/SolbiatiAlessandro/human-IO
• when: 2017, 20 ys old, Shanghai

RNN-stocks-prediction

• one-liner: algorithmic trading system that uses neural networks on equities and forex
• status: operated for 6 month with 20~30 percent margins, will never know if it was only luck
• url: trading results, blog post
• when: 2016, 19 ys old, Shanghai

ForeignBridge

• one-liner: jobs marketplace for exchange students in China
• status: solo-founder, bootstrapped, profitable
• users: ~1000
• url: demo video with app and customers reviews
• when: 2016, 19 ys old, Shanghai

HERMes algorithmic trading

• one-liner: website to get trading signals for equities based on a famous J.P.Morgan paper
• status: operated for 1 year as CTO for Investment Club Milano
• url: demo video on YouKu, implementation of the paper in R, solbiatialessandro.github.io/HERMes
• when: 2015, 18 ys old, Milano

Knock Lock Box

• one-liner: hardware device to lock items using sound pattern instead of passwords
• status: crowfunding campaign partially funded
• url: indiegogo crowdfunding campaign, marketing video featuring me with funny glasses
• when: 2014, 17 ys old, Milano