Seven-week intensive fellowship shipping five AI-powered products in five weeks under real deadlines.
Each week a new project with a five-day deadline — smart pantry tracker, AI flashcard generator, professor-student matching platform, and more. No extensions, no exceptions.
Worked within agile cross-functional teams across product, design, and engineering. Shipped all five projects within the fellowship timeline using AI-assisted development workflows.
All five projects delivered on schedule. CookyChef — the capstone — grew into a standalone AI food tech startup.
Designed and built the Nyxora Labs studio website from scratch — the system you are looking at now.
Live at nyxoralabs.com within 3 weeks of founding — near-perfect Lighthouse scores and a hardened security posture, from a full Content-Security-Policy to a complete security-header set. First client enquiry within the first month.
AI food-tech platform from the Headstarter Fellowship, rebuilt in 2026 into the Dopamine Menu — a zero-decision meal picker for ADHD and autistic adults.
Currently in private beta with a small group of active testers validating the core loop before a wider build. The pivot traded a broad feature set for one job done well — taking the decision off the table.
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