https://andy-thinks.com/projects/Recent content in Projects on Andy LeeHugoen-ushttps://andy-thinks.com/projects/kin/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://andy-thinks.com/projects/kin/Kin is the project described in the August 24, 2026 essay. The idea is to help family members get paid, through Medicare, for care-coordination work they already do for aging parents. The essay says Andy is looking for a small group of founding doctors in California so the project can be set up, and names cofounder Kev. The essay traces the idea to Andy’s dad’s open-heart surgery in 2023, and to conversations with friends and family who had cared for their own parents.https://andy-thinks.com/projects/downtobid/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://andy-thinks.com/projects/downtobid/Downtobid builds AI tools for construction preconstruction. The product essay describes an AI reader for construction plans: identify scopes of work, match a subcontractor list, generate a plan room and invitations to bid, and put that into a construction spreadsheet. Work on that reader started in October 2023. The essay says the team posted progress to Reddit’s estimator community while the citations UI went through several versions. Downtobid went through Y Combinator (S19).https://andy-thinks.com/projects/basisboard/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://andy-thinks.com/projects/basisboard/BasisBoard is the bid-management product in the fundraising essay: a platform for subcontractors. The seed round was $3.4m in 2021, about two years after the company started, raised with an email blurb and a long memo. The decks and the memo are in the fundraising essay . The old On a Whim homepage described the company as “basis”, a CRM for construction trade contractors, cofounded while Andy was at Uber ATG.https://andy-thinks.com/projects/uber-atg/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://andy-thinks.com/projects/uber-atg/From 2016 to 2019 Andy was a machine learning engineer at Uber ATG, Uber’s self-driving research group. The 2020 essay says the work was on two teams: Motion planning, including iLQR trajectory optimization. The old about page also lists C++, trajectory optimization, and inverse reinforcement learning. Deep learning, including simulation used to check end-to-end driving models. The old about page lists Python and simulation for deep learning. The essay describes applying in the summer of 2016 by pitching a one-year internship that was not an official opening, to the head of ML, instead of a full-time job.https://andy-thinks.com/projects/ikigai/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://andy-thinks.com/projects/ikigai/Ikigai was a company Andy started in 2017, while working at Uber, to sequence a person’s DNA and RNA and match them to an Alzheimer’s clinical trial, with a further hope of developing a drug. The October 21, 2020 essay says the company failed after about two years. That essay says: Andy joined Andreas Pfenning’s neurogenomics lab at Carnegie Mellon as a part-time researcher, after asking professors in person if he could work for free.