Canberk

Been building ActorRise for a couple months now and the hardest part isn't the code.

I'm an actor who taught myself to code. Built an AI monologue search because I was sick of wasting hours reading plays just to find one decent audition piece.

Started scraping and cleaning monologue data, and turns out I accidentally built the world's largest searchable monologue database : 8,600+ pieces. Backstage has like 1,100. Other platforms max out at 800. I have 4-8x more than anyone else.

The tech works great - pgvector, semantic search, all that. I use it constantly for my own auditions.