Nathan Merz

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2024-2025 Projects

Gourmeo (food discovery integrates with groceries)

Active build time: approximately 3 months

Thesis 1: Meal planning services are unnecessarily expensive due to duplicating logistics work already done by grocery stores. Thesis 2: The discovery interface of TikTok would be more useful with real-world integration.
git (available by request)

Reseemé (video resumes)

Active build time: 2.5 months

Thesis: Resumes are low bandwidth. Companies and (good) candidates would be better served with a higher-bandwidth medium.
See a resulting video git

Chessy (OCR for chess tournaments)

Active build time: 2.5 months

Thesis: The labor of digitizing chess tournament sheets can be reduced by computerized OCR. Layering domain-specific logic/training on existing OCR solutions can bridge the performance gap to enable this.
git for model work git for iOS

Artlocator Database+Accounts Conversion

Active build time: 1 month

Switch a previously static site to use a database to allow user submissions. My contribution includes essentially everything not in index.html.
demo For demo, use credentials 2605551234 and 23... to skip the review queue