Sigil Wen
Building Airchat. Spearhead founder. I crowdfunded myself to San Francisco from 🇨🇦 through a $SIGIL token during high school, then deferred M&T @ UPenn to build in silicon valley. Recording the whole journey, capturing the authentic highs and lows :)
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Things I built
- Launched Airchat w/ Naval :^} https://twitter.com/naval/status/1660405285943668736?s=20
- Built Serendipity, a PRM that hit 2,000+ MRR in the first 14 days. Was invited to Stripe, interviewed with Patrick & John Collison where I become the :blistering-intensity: emote in the Stripe Slack among other memes. https://twitter.com/patrickc/status/1560675678151852033?s=20
- Built and failed to launch Monument- social token platform. Once I realized it was not viable, I pivoted to Serendipity. Backed by Naval Ravikant, Elad Gil, Justin Kan, Founders Inc. and other incredible supporters ❤️ Half the team was hired into Airchat and got my investors equity in Naval's new company.
- Built Bitswap in hs, a bridge from decentralized social blockchain to Ethereum - couple million in volume. Feat. New Yorker, New York Magazine, Business Insider, etc. Dharmesh publicly offered me $100k for 1% of bitswap
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I primarily code in Swift, Python, and Java. Some JS, C & C++
- WatchGPT2: GPT2 running locally on my Apple Watch Ultra 2
- XTTS on Replicate: SOTA OS Multilingual Voice Cloning TTS Model. #1 model on Replicate.
- Dream with Vision Pro: Text to 3D AI generation in Apple Vision Pro built with VisionOS, Scale AI spellbook, and OpenAI Shape-E. Built @ Scale's Generative AI hackathon in SF, won the Scale AI prize 😼 https://twitter.com/0xSigil/status/1680447930732515330?s=20
- VisionCraft: Minecraft in Apple Vision Pro
- Ask Elon: ElevenLabs x Twilio x Elon Musks Voice = a real time phone call with elon musk. Built @ Cohere hackathon
- Diffusion Craft: I ported Stable Diffusion into a Minecraft Server, allowing you to generate anything you imagine in MC!
- Chat with Steve Jobs: Steve Jobs bot on Airchat ft Naval and Norgard. Lexica Diffusion + Tortoise TTS trained on Steves voice + GPT3.5
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