Nina J Lu

I've always been fascinated by dreams! While Twitter is what people are willing to post publicly during their waking hours, dreams represent what you are thinking about subconsciously! Despite this fascination, I sucked at keeping up with a dream journal! I was really excited about using AI to reduce the friction of keeping a dream journal. With Astroplane, you can just wake up bleary eyed and...

I tried to build Zora 8 years ago when my little sister Sophie was in middle school. Like most middle schoolers, she hated reading. I wanted to build her a platform that showed her that reading could be fun by involving her in the storytelling and giving her the freedom to have the story be about whatever she was interest in, whether that was Minecraft or a zombie hunter named Sophie! 8 years...

Brendan's Inspiration: When Wordle made its big debut in late 2021, my partner and I used it as a way to bond. Almost every day at the strike of midnight, we would be battling words and competing for the win. I would always start OPIUM for the vowel power, and her word of choice was always AVERT. But nowadays, the drive to pursue strong professional careers has driven us 10 hours of timezone...

Here's a notion for how to create a new persona! https://www.notion.so/Creating-a-Persona-for-Polyglot-AI-47919eb5a3824848bf2576d676236358

I studied Spanish in high school but quickly saw my language skills deteriorate as I've gotten older. I built this app to help people maintain a language they already know but don't get the chance to use in their daily life. Open-world chatbots weren't possible until GPT3. There are still some snafus with foreign language responses but we've come a huge way over the last couple years. I hope...