Alex Yan

Phd student in Physical Realization of Quantum Computing
Interested in Programming and AI
Aiming to solve real-word problems
Believing "code is cheap, idea matters"

Open Source Products

Open source projects on Github
Any Feedbacks are welcome

mnemo-images
A semantic image memory tool that helps you remember what your images are for.
imgclip
A tiny cross-platform CLI for clipboard ↔ image files, with watch mode to auto-save every screenshot.
2026 - presentopensource

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Recent activity

Show IH: I built a CLI tool to stop losing screenshots to clipboard overwrites

Show IH: I learned Rust from scratch with zero CS background — and my first project got featured in This Week in Rust

Show IH: I built a CLI tool to stop losing screenshots to clipboard overwrites

Show IH: I built a CLI tool to stop losing screenshots to clipboard overwrites

Show IH: I built a CLI tool to stop losing screenshots to clipboard overwrites

Show IH: I built a CLI tool to stop losing screenshots to clipboard overwrites

Indie Hackers truth: building is easy now. Distribution is the bottleneck.

Building an AI tool in a half-day hackathon and hitting $20k/mo

I stopped chasing the “perfect idea”