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You got past every bug, error and failed print on the way here. So pitch me something: an idea, a tool that should exist, a problem worth solving. If it is good, I will write back and we build it together.
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Mattia Metiu
Independent developer · Applied Sciences student · Italy
I build open-source things. Some are AI, some are not, most started as an idea that would not leave me alone. Writing software since I was twelve, and I film part of the mess on YouTube.
Background
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Age 12
Parlot
My first real project: a voice agent for the PC. It listened, understood a spoken command and acted on the machine. Written in Python, entirely by hand — back then there was no model to write it for me. There is a video of it running.
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Age 14
PiramidKid
My first published video game, an adventure released on Google Play. Designed, built and shipped on my own — the first thing I made that anyone could download.
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2025
YouTube channel
Started @metiu-tek, where I show what I am building and how it actually works.
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2026
Local-first AI tools
Vortelio, a local AI platform in one binary. TubeAssistant, a YouTube channel that runs itself. vedit, a video editor an AI can drive. All open source, all running on your own machine. Alongside that, my first collaborations on YouTube and my first work on real projects with other people.
What I do
- Development
- Go, Python, C# and the web stack — HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Desktop tools, web apps, agents, MCP servers and command-line software, built end to end.
- 3D modelling
- Parametric modelling in FreeCAD, from a measurement to a part ready for the printer.
- 3D printing
- Not just the model: calibration, materials, and fixing the prints that come out wrong.
- Blender
- VFX and 3D animation: scenes, motion, compositing and rendering.
- Video editing
- Cutting, sound, colour and the finishing that turns raw footage into a piece worth watching.
- Graphics
- Thumbnails, covers and the small pieces of visual design a project needs to be seen.
- Electronics
- Arduino and microcontrollers — the side where software has to meet a physical circuit.
- Machine learning
- Building neural networks from scratch — classifiers, linear and non-linear regression — adapting existing ones through distillation, fine-tuning and LoRA, and running them locally with llama.cpp, diffusers and Whisper.
Projects
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ShowUp building now The one I am on right now. Post a project and find the people who will build it with you — having only an idea is enough to post one. Reliability is not self-declared: the site measures on its own who answers and whose projects actually get finished. Opens when it is ready. TypeScript
- Vortelio Local AI platform: LLMs, Stable Diffusion, Whisper, TTS, video and 3D generation, all offline. An open-source Ollama + ComfyUI alternative in one binary. Go
- TubeAssistant A YouTube channel that runs itself: script, voice, stock clips, editing, thumbnail and upload, every day, on its own. Controlled from Telegram, runs on free tiers. Python
- vedit new Tell an AI to edit your video and watch it happen. A real timeline editor with 77 tools an agent can call over MCP, from Claude Code, Cursor or Codex. Python · React
- llm-tier-router new Stop paying for the big model on easy questions: a ~1 ms classifier that routes each prompt to the cheap or the expensive LLM. 97.6% accuracy, 12k-example dataset included. Python
- rvm-web Cut the background out of a video without a green screen, on your own PC. Real alpha for Premiere, DaVinci and OBS, plus AI upscaling. Python
- lithophane-studio Turn a photo into a 3D print that glows in backlight. Runs in the browser, nothing uploaded, exports print-ready STL and OBJ. JavaScript
- acf-agent-format A compact replacement for JSON in an LLM's context window. Same data, 46% fewer tokens, lossless roundtrip, zero dependencies. Python
Contact
Write to me here — an idea, a problem worth solving, or work you want done. GitHub, X and a direct message on Instagram work too.