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Privacy-focused experiences for individual end users. Local-first where it makes sense, hosted when it doesn't. Daily power user of Claude Code well beyond coding. Twenty years of shipping ideas before they became mainstream.
From Saynomo (2003) to Haixu educational comics (2024) to ahai (2025) to Maibook (2026). A consistent thread of making technology accessible.
Technical →78 blog posts on AI, local LLMs, and building products. Public gists, tools, and 4 Hacker News submissions.
About →Founding-team Microsoft BizTalk Server, Microsoft AutoML, Amazon, Ripcord, IIT Roorkee. Local-first AI, multi-agent systems, Claude Code power user.
End-user focus over enterprise, B2B, or financial verticals. Every product serves an individual person - not a department, not a deal pipeline.
Local-first AI where possible (Apple MLX, Ollama, on-device models), hosted when it makes sense. Maibook, ahai, and the Haixu pipelines all run on the user's hardware.
No telemetry harvested for ads, no accounts that extract you. Tools that respect that you own your data and your attention.
Daily power user of Claude Code well beyond coding - for knowledge work, multi-agent design, content pipelines, and Obsidian-as-second-brain workflows. Building agents that build with agents.
Twenty years of independently arriving at ideas before they became mainstream - no-code platforms, visual knowledge graphs, multi-LLM councils, AI-driven personal knowledge bases. See the pattern ↓
A pattern across two decades: independently arriving at ideas that later became widely adopted. Not always first to be famous, but often first to ship.
A fully-hosted, build-anything-without-code web platform - shipped with 25 product demos - years before Webflow and Bubble propelled no-code into the mainstream wave.
Multimodal knowledge-graph layers over web content - the same pattern Google later popularized for entities like movies, places, and people in search results.
Comics-from-Wikipedia (Pikodo, pre-LLM) and 68+ AI-illustrated visual guides plus 9 Kindle books (Haixu, 2024) - shipped before AI-generated illustrated books became a Gumroad and Amazon Kindle category.
Built a private experiment where multiple local models picked tasks from diverse domains, debated, judged each other, and scored outputs - the same core pattern that Karpathy's open-source LLM Council (Nov 2025) later made famous.
Heavy Claude Code workflows against personal Obsidian vaults - generating master indexes, concept maps, linked notes, and personalized just-in-time interfaces - before Karpathy's LLM Wiki (Apr 2026) crystallized the pattern.
"Your third brain" - an ongoing local AI feed of personalized agents that expand on your activity. The current chapter, building on every pattern above. maibook.app →
A private community of personalized AI agents expanding on your every activity, responding to your every request - on-device on your Mac or Windows PC. Local-first by design. My current focus and the flagship of MLAI LLC.
"The second brain is an AI snapshot of you. The third brain is an ongoing AI live-streaming feed of your activity."
Dark-mode viewer for Claude Code CLI sessions. Browse, search, and visualize AI coding sessions in a rich UI. Launched on Hacker News.
LLM-based pipeline creating visual guides. 68+ comics on Gumroad, 9 books on Kindle. Spanning science, history, culture, technology.
Native Mac app using Apple MLX to scan markdown files and surface forgotten ideas. 100% local, privacy-first.
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