GAIA

GAIA started during buildspace Nights & Weekends Season 5 - I came in with a rough idea of building an AI assistant that actually feels personal, and spent the season figuring out what it should really be. That first post was me launching just the landing page, still openly exploring the vision more than the product. What began as a Nights & Weekends project didn’t stay one - it turned into a startup, and it’s what I’m building now.

The idea was an AI assistant that isn’t just another chatbot - something that understands your context, remembers your preferences, and proactively helps you think through and get things done. The backend is Python with FastAPI, the frontend is Next.js with TypeScript, and the whole thing runs across web, mobile and desktop. We built a conversational interface that handles everything from daily planning to brainstorming sessions, with a dark blue-accented UI designed to be a tool you’d actually want open all day.

One of the first real launches - the public beta going live on Product Hunt - went viral on LinkedIn, which was the first strong signal that the thing people wanted was exactly what we were trying to build.