jpin97

Re:Entropy – Favourite at Mind Sports Olympiad on Tuesday September 09, 2025 @10:40AM (#45182585)

Hi gus, yes one of my aims is to create a bot you can play straight in the browser using Web Assembly, and you wouldn't have to sign up for it.

Entropy – Favourite at Mind Sports Olympiad

Posted by jpin97 on Monday September 08, 2025 @10:06AM
from the self-post dept.

Hi All, my name is Jay and I just built an Entropy app at entropygame.org. The board game is a favourite at the Mind Sports Olympiad & Sir Demis Hassabis (Nobel Prize winner & CEO of Google Deepmind) is a 5x World Champion.For those who are not familiar with the game: Entropy is a two-player strategy game played on a 7x7 grid with coloured counters. One player (Chaos) randomly draws and...

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Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2025) on Wednesday July 02, 2025 @10:01AM (#44443848)

Location: Edinburgh, UK

Time Zone: UTC+1

Remote: Yes — UK, EU/EMEA preferred

Willing to Relocate: Yes — Copenhagen, Zurich, Munich, or Barcelona

Technologies: React, Next.js, TypeScript, Node.js, Express.js, Tailwind, Shadcn, React Native/Expo, Prisma, Drizzle ORM, PlanetScale (MySQL), AWS, Vercel, Python

I'm a full-stack software engineer and product-focused builder with a strong entrepreneurial mindset. I’ve shipped production-grade SaaS products, marketing sites, loyalty systems, mobile apps, and AI-powered tools for both startups and my own ventures.

Recent highlights:

• Led development of hospitality SAAS company's loyalty platform (Next.js, TypeScript, Node.js, PlanetScale, AWS)

• Built Langchats.com — AI-powered language learning app

I enjoy working in small teams where I can have a meaningful impact across the stack, and I'm an entrepreneur at heart and would love to work directly with Founders/CTO's to build a great product and service.

Also recently just took a year out of software dev to go back to uni for an MSc in AI.

Contact:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jay-pinion-b8b26815b/

Product demo of Langchats: https://youtu.be/Mc9okomyKd8

Personal website: https://www.jay.sx

Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025) on Monday June 30, 2025 @07:51AM (#44422149)

I'm working on creating an AI language learning platform to help me learn German. Here is a video of me demoing it: https://youtu.be/Mc9okomyKd8

Re: on Thursday August 03, 2023 @05:35AM (#36983474)

Hey Chris! Cool app. Practiced a bit of German with it and it works well! I had the same issues as you with language learning and built a similar thing called https://www.langchats.com. Looking forward to seeing your progress.

Re:Show HN: LearnLingo – Converse with an AI-powered language tutor on Monday July 31, 2023 @04:42AM (#36940114)

Good job dude! It's cool to see lots of new AI tutors/partners on the market. I built my own at https://www.langchats.com . All the best with your development. I'm interested to see your progress.

Show HN: I built an AI language partner to help you master speaking

Posted by jpin97 on Saturday June 17, 2023 @11:56AM
from the show-hn dept.

https://www.langchats.com/

Hey Hacker News,I’m Jay, a 26 year old Irish guy, and I’ve spent the last 2-3 months working full time on my AI language partner, Langchats.I love languages (or at least the idea of speaking lots of languages). I also LOVE building, and making software applications has become a big part of my life.I’ve combined two of my passions into an application. Langchats. An AI language partner, and my...

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Re: on Thursday March 16, 2023 @07:09AM (#35180456)

Learn a new language by practicing your conversation skills with an AI Language partner!