Alexander Ivkin

Building distributed rate limiting with Redis and Lua, and a backpressure-aware job dispatcher for AI agents

Selling Ace Trace: lessons from negotiating my first indie app acquisition

Building an AI fashion search engine in 8 hours with Next.js, GPT-4 Vision, and real-time product recommendations

Building an MCP server that generates memes from error messages for vibe debugging

Creating a 2-minute AI film at MIT AI Filmmaking Hackathon using OpenArt, Midjourney, and ElevenLabs

Co-founder search through YC matching platform and lessons from a startup partnership gone wrong

2022 recap: hiring ML engineers, YC Startup School learnings, and building a social feed for Ace Trace

Using Boost and Ceres Solver in iOS: building dynamic libraries for physics-based golf ball trajectory fitting

Finding product-market fit for Ace Trace: UX experiments, pricing strategies, and cofounder search

First time at a Silicon Valley startup conference: networking tips and the reality of founder events

Understanding matrix transformations for Visual SLAM and camera pose estimation in mobile AR apps

Lessons from MIT Reality Hack: joining teams, managing stress, and building a pitch training VR game

Preparing for MIT Reality Hack: exploring AR/VR development with Apple ARKit, Unity, and A-Frame

Quitting my job to build products: the beginning of my indie founder journey