As the second day of the unemploy life, I am starting to explore some ideas with the help of Claude code. As a backend engineer in the last 9 years, I have not got much clue on how to write frontend code. Thank to Claude code and lovable, they excuse me from my embarassment on writing the UI compononents and I can just focus on the backend logic.
One of the ideas that came to me was about leveraging Zero Knowledge Proof to carry out account verification/ authentication check. Basically every user (or Prover) that needs to show their account has certain balance or certain numbers of transaction; they can simply download a verifier schema from the entity (Verifier). They install a special chrome extension and upload their schema; then login to their website and we would be able to calculate the witness (signature) from the request response and create a proof. They just need to send back to proof to the entity (Verifier) and the entity would be able to match that against their internal verifier key to prove the user (Prover) has certain amount in their account. Sounds complicated and it is indeed complicated. But if we simplify the logic and cut some corners, there is still a nice MVP that can be built in a week to prove this work. I spent some time to learn and try to come up with the extension that works in this way (while I am learning js/ ts and writing chrome extension). Interesting idea and definitely see the business use in there (in combine with decentralised blockchain for the record).
Another work that I already working on is to help a very early startup on consulting their technical architecture. Two founders (Ni and Ow) founded a business basically acquire a profitable, positive cashflow IT solution company with pre-AI era technology. Trying to implement AI solution and increase the profit margin and lower the customer acquisition cost (CAC) if possible while trying to upsell more AI solution to the clients too. Both of them are business people and they looking for a strong cofounder as CTO; as they are in the hunt of one and unfortunately I am not 100% interested in the mission yet, I promised to try out working on a project with them and hope to help them unblock some initial difficulties. Nice people and definitely very smart too.
Lastly, I was cleaning up the work I had for my previous job (P.AI) and I foresee there are still some more work in the upcoming days too before I can leave that behind me (sigh) but for some quick $$.
Looking forward to this weekend so I can finally move out from my parents house and have my own space. Hope that would help in getting more self-time and focus on my work. Exciting!
Journal:
- Finished more work for P.AI
- Chat with Ow on the project
- Started building first version of ZKverifier extension and learnt about ZKP
- Watched some TV with my wife
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