u/BionicBelladonna
r/MadeMeSmile r/houseplants r/SideProject r/Anthropic r/sanfrancisco r/aww r/goldenretrievers r/sanfrancirclejerk r/creepy r/bayarea
Everything the light touches… is his domain
u/BionicBelladonna — 2 days ago
▲ 2 r/Anthropic
Welcome to Safeguardageddon...
Just a basic review of my dashboard project. Zero idea what flagged it.
u/BionicBelladonna — 2 months ago
▲ 183 r/MadeMeSmile
Lost home and plants to a fire, 9 month update… signs of life :)
Lost my home to a fire last year, all my plants burned. I wasn't allowed access to the home for 3 months, when I returned there was a little bud that had started to peak. I decided to place them all in a popup greenhouse in my backyard and... just left them again for about 6 months. The house had no water due to said fire so I couldn't water them, moved Airbnbs 14 times so couldn't take them with me. I had a lot of other things to worry about and instead of agonize about it, I decided to leave it to nature. Some of the plants died from the shock (and lack of water lets be honest).
Well nature is prevailing (kind of, only 1/3rd of them so far)
All 3 natal mahogany trees show signs of life, though one is on it's last breath. Didn't think my fire resistant forest trees would come in handy.
u/BionicBelladonna — 2 months ago
My burnt plants, 9 month update… Life uh...
I’ve posted about my burnt house and plants in the past and since my last post, I placed them all in a popup greenhouse in my backyard and... just left them again for about 6 months. The house had no water due to said fire so I couldn't water them, moved Airbnbs 14 times so couldn't take them with me. I had a lot of other things to worry about and instead of agonize about it, I decided to leave it to nature. Some of the plants died from the shock (and lack of water lets be honest)
Well nature is prevailing (kind of, only 1/3rd of them so far)
All 3 natal mahogany trees show signs of life, though one is on it's last breath. Will share more now that I have water and can visit them :) (house is still 12 months + out to be rebuilt)
u/BionicBelladonna — 2 months ago
▲ 3 r/SideProject
Turned my personal dashboard into an open-source local self-growing wiki tool. Runs on a local LLM and uses flourishing research to turn your data into action
While building another app (Valoquent), I grew a project wiki, and noticed it was quietly catching all my personal notes and half-formed ideas too. Instead of letting them scroll off into chat history, I leaned in and turned my personal dashboard into something anyone can run to elevate and learn from yourself.
It's called Tapestry. Short version:
Sits on top of your own folders (Notion exports, Obsidian, markdown, PDFs, audio, YouTube links) and grows them into a wiki that links itself together. The idea is to capture all the decisions, questions, ideas that come out via your chats, and elevate them for your future use.
The vault, the file-server, and all the auto-classifying run local. Python file-server, local LLM via Ollama for the sorting and chat side. The Project area chat can optionally call out to Claude (or other models) if you turn that on, off by default, and your data classification never leaves the machine.
Encrypted vault for the private stuff (PBKDF2 + AES).
You can talk to it through the built-in local model. To your past notes, to ideas you parked months ago.
It's built to be vibe-coded by you. It walks you through setting up a local model for your machine, and through reshaping the dashboard yourself so it becomes your tool, not mine. Open source code you can read and fork.
Packaging it for GitHub soon. If anyone wants to kick the tires before it's public, I've got a couple of slots where I'll hop on and help you get it running. Otherwise happy to answer anything about the stack.
u/BionicBelladonna — 2 months ago
▲ 3 r/SideProject
Just shipped V2.0 or my real-time video conversation app with figures from history. 6 months solo: vibe-coded MVP, custom calibration harness, awarded ElevenLabs Grant & SIGGRAPH Appy Hour selection. Stack included.
Hey r/SideProject, I'm a solo builder. Last year I had to take a week off work after my house burned down, and I came back to a layoff. While rebuilding and job searching, I founded a company solo and built Valoquent, an idea that has been rolling around in my head and the tech just got good enough to get there.
It puts you in real-time video chats with figures from history, in a format where you learn about their life and ideas while learning the craft of quality conversation at the same time. Research shows face-to-face conversation is one of the best ways to learn and retain information, and the product is built around giving you that on demand with figures who can actually hold their end of it.
Here is the build tax below:
V1 was vibe-coded in Replit. Working prototype on the App Store in about two months. That got me a tech demo that ran, but wasn't going to scale.
The next three months were where it actually became a product. I built a custom calibration harness, a 22-signal conversation scoring engine in pure Python (heuristic and keyword detection, sub-millisecond per turn, built on Ghazarian et al. AAAI 2020 with 0.85 correlation to human judgment), a per-character keyword catalog with six clusters per character at four disclosure tiers each, and a long-term memory architecture grounded in self-disclosure research (Aron 1997, Altman and Taylor 1973). The scoring and adaptive response system ran through hundreds of calibration iterations from 50% pass rate to 98%, with simulations on two RTX 5080 laptops, which is my (and my partner's) mobile gaming setup since we lost our desktops in the fire.
Mid-calibration activity I applied for and was awarded an ElevenLabs Grant (33M credits), which let me move beyond local Ollama and run calibration on the actual production pipeline.
SIGGRAPH 2026 selected Valoquent for their Appy Hour showcase, and will published my technical abstract in the ACM Digital Library.
V2.0 is free on the App Store, Android coming in the next week or so.
Stack:
- ElevenLabs: real-time voice, knowledge base RAG
- LemonSlice: real-time zero shot animation for static painting
- LiveKit: real-time orchestration
- Replit: app host, auth, deployment
- Neon: production postgres
- Voyage AI: semantic embeddings for memory
- Github: policy repo, change management, audit trail
- Claude Cowork & Code: daily build, project knowledge base, research, creative, code review
- Gemini: research, creative
- Perplexity Computer: research
- Foxit: PDF learning report
You can see more about how it works @ valoquent.com
This is my first full solo build and I'd love a gut check on the idea, the execution, and the build decisions etc. if you are inclined. Happy to answer any questions about it!
u/BionicBelladonna — 3 months ago