Luigi — building & tinkering. Previously @whop, @wander, founder @smartrip, 2x exits (16/19 y/o)
Self-taught, built my first company at 15 y/o with two friends from high school. Three years later, at 18, I built smartrip, an AI voice travel agent for digital nomads, later acquihired by Wander. Dropped out of college
Building and tinkering with AI, apps, and hardware.
Made in Italy, now in Palo Alto
Have a brother called Mario (jk)
Previously
Interests
Understanding how llms work, biking & scuba diving
Experience:
Side Quests
Turn a question, paper, or URL into a narrated, animated explainer video. Pause and ask ‘wait, what?’ to rebuild the part that didn’t click. Built with agents, Manim, and voice generation; the generation engine is open source.
A Minecraft-style voxel sandbox controlled with face and hand motion. Google’s pretrained MediaPipe models turn head movement, chops, pinches, and jogging into game controls. Runs locally in your browser; camera frames stay on your machine.
Control an air conditioner from your Mac’s menu bar. Native Swift plus an ESP32 infrared blaster that learns the remote. About $30 of hardware, no cloud or account.
An interactive redesign concept for Boom’s Overture: scroll from the aircraft into its cabin, engine, and silicon. Procedural 3D rendered live in the browser, rather than a prerecorded video.
A prototype interface for an agent feedback loop: follow human feedback, observer notes, and proposed code changes, then review the next iteration.
Search your Instagram followers in natural language, including physical descriptions. Built with a Swift iOS app and Python backend using embeddings and vision models.
A tiny macOS menu bar app built with Rust + Swift to convert images, videos, audio, and documents entirely locally. Drop a file, pick a format—nothing leaves your Mac.
Natural-language search for PostgreSQL using Jev, TypeSafe’s model. No embeddings or vector index.
Product URL in, ad out. Extracts product context and orchestrates AI copywriting and Higgsfield generation to create ad creatives.
Fine-tuning MERT to match rough hums, whistles, and random sung fragments to the song stuck in your head—even when you can’t reproduce the melody accurately. Work in progress.
A marketplace for agents to find current API documentation and deprecated endpoints, instead of relying on static docs in their training data.
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