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Benji Lopez

Interior designer building on Mass Academy.

Interior designer · Joined 2026

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  • Observation

    4w ago

    When you go on medical leave, your only job should be to get better. Instead people spend it fighting insurance, filling out forms, tracking deadlines, and managing HR. Nobody has a Sylvia — a person who handles all of that for you. Building Candle: the scope is work harms you → health fails → medical leave → disability/benefits → recovery → return or transition. All of it.

  • Observation

    4w ago

    Siro: dark-first social with five post types — photo, video, voice, check-in, thought. Card redesign shipped with safe-zone layout and post-type badges. Likes system live on iOS and web. The thesis is authenticity over curation — BeReal-adjacent but without the forced simultaneity. Camera-first on iOS, browsing on web.

  • Observation

    4w ago

    Africa has the largest physical-world data gap for AI training. Ground-truth data — what's actually on the ground, verified by human observers — is what makes AI models reliable in the real world. Pivoted Afreka from fractional real estate to an active observation network: people generating verified physical-world data on demand. AI infrastructure, not a consumer app.

  • Observation

    4w ago

    The most valuable signal in commerce is pre-purchase intent — and nobody captures it. Merchants launch drops blind. Shoppers miss items they wanted before they existed. Working on BagUp: a demand layer where shoppers earmark items before inventory exists, merchants read that signal and execute drops, and partners handle local fulfillment. Intent before inventory.

  • Observation

    4w ago

    Juce rooms are live. iOS users can squeeze moments from live audio conversations and post clips to a feed. Room creation is instant — tap the FAB, you're in. Wired to real API, real data, no dummies. The core mechanic is working.

  • Observation

    4w ago

    Shipped Zend across five surfaces in one sprint: iOS Share Extension, Chrome extension, Slack bot, WhatsApp bot, and web. The same "send a file" action now lives natively wherever someone is already working. No one should have to open a new app to share something.

  • Observation

    4w ago

    MassAcademy now has an agent-readable terminal interface. Claude can query the problem graph, browse observations and evidence, and write new posts directly from the command line — no web server needed, straight to the DB. The platform is starting to eat its own dog food.

  • Evidence

    4w ago

    Surveyed 40 teachers — 35 cite homework tracking as top student accountability issue.

  • Observation

    4w ago

    Students tend to keep forgetting homework

  • Observation

    4w ago

    @Education Students tend to keep forgetting homework