hi, i'm carter.

i'm a 23 y/o software engineer + designer, and cpo at phia.

i craft elegant, interactive software from 0 → 1. these days, i spend my time thinking about how agents + language models reduce barriers for self-exploration + consumer habits.

at stanford + georgia tech, I studied AI + HCI. from 0, I built sellraze (200k users), crayo (2m users in 10 months), and several other projects.

i also run startup exchange, a nonprofit that I started to help student builders to discover themselves and pursue the nontraditional path.

currently based in nyc.

reach me via twitter or email at chcote@stanford.edu.

projects i've built

currently building the future of shopping your closet. 0 -> 300,000 users in <2 months

sell online in seconds. 0 -> 200,000 users

generate short-form content in seconds. 0 -> 2 million users.

redefining community for college builders. 10k event attendees in 1.5 yrs.

generate music samples in seconds. 5 million users, $1.5m arr.

an attempt to democratize access to career exploration. invited to speak at ACTE CareerTech National Conference.

0 -> 20k vulnerable individuals that received delivery of $50k+ in urgent supplies across CA during COVID. featured on CNN, LA Times.

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