Ben Williams Portrait

Ben Williams

Engineer / Designer

I'm the cofounder of Ahoy Labs, a software studio building AI-first products. Our latest product is Backyard.ai, a platform for creating fictional AI characters and stories. I have been designing and building software on the web for most of my life, trying to get better each day without getting stuck in perfectionism.

I am based in San Francisco, CA. If you'd like to chat, please reach out. Some of my favorite professional relationships have started from a cold email / DM.

You can reach me at [email protected] orx.com/biwills

Open Source

The following are a subset of the open source software I maintain. You can find all my open source work on github.com/biw.

enwrapTypeScript library for simple typed errors

Side Projects

Big 12 Conference Football Standings Predictor - An interactive college football standings predictorPauseNotes - Take notes while watching youtube videos

Writing

LLM Tethering2024-02-28Flower Company - The Costco of Cannabis2020-02-1843 YC Winter 2019 Batch Companies To Watch2019-03-25Lets Talk About Nvidia2018-02-08

Previous Work

Ideaflow — Note taking app with Prosemirror
PullRequest — Code reviews and security audits for startups & fortune 500 companies
AuxParty — Immersive 3D social music experience scaled to 50 countries with millions of songs listened to collectively and live events with over a dozen artists/producers
Shone — Autonomous technologies for container ships
Aero — Rethinking business travel (since pivoted)
Masterclass — Growth & engineering tooling
Microsoft — Windows kernel security (Intern)
Tensentric — Medical device security (Intern)