currently: cluj-napoca

hey, i'm octavian

i'm 23, based in cluj-napoca, studying computer science at babeș-bolyai. i build ai products, ship a lot.

since then i've:

won 1st at elevenhacks #6 (elevenlabs + zed) — built road to sf, a game pulled from real sf news where ai rewrites the whole story every play
finished 2nd in paradigm's prediction market challenge — $41.09 vs the winner's $42.32, 80 lines of python against their 900
built cluj4me with prof. virgiliu țârău — an interactive city guide for cluj-napoca
built the ui and data-extraction pipelines for an ai web crawler at osapiens (mannheim, 4-person team) — maps worldwide company data against the german supply chain due diligence law
sold an ai audio→task api to cyberspace technologies — multilingual speech-to-text + openai function calling, flask backend with 3 hot-swappable stt providers
launched zyncron.com — real-time shopify repricing for sneaker resellers
launched llms.city — turns citizen photo reports into a digital twin of the city via graph ingestion + ai vision. best thesis award (mhp, porsche) · demo
built mesh — a decentralized team chat on the nostr protocol, with a nip-29 compliant rust relay

things i shipped:

ugc discovery — b2b distribution isn't where my strength lives; stopped solo-selling it
wingman — ai meeting teammate with voice commands
clio — ai city narrator