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:
- 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
more on x
hang out at:
- clujhouse — founder community
- founders hive — cluj hub for early-stage builders and founders
reach out if you think i can be helpful — octavian@cristeaz.comcopied
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