These days, when I am hacking for pleasure,
- 🔭 I’m currently researching:
- Autonomous AI agents
- Deploying Fund 2 of Region4, active angel investor
- Travel tools, IRL communities in SF
- Vibecoding tools (I lead a couple communities in WhatsApp)
- 🌱 I’m currently learning everything about Claude Code, Cursor & CodeX
- 💬 Ask me about Startups, SF life and Travel hacks
- Blog: cvander.com
- Also check the Substack
- And the Instagram Channel
- I lead many WhatsApp communities and IRL events in SF: Vibecoding Anónimos, YC del Sur.
- Investments: region4.vc
- Send me a demo of your product. Prefer warm intros for pitch
- Agent Autonomy:
- Building AI agents that own and operate real businesses
- Open Source Agent Maya to Run a Traditional Bar in San Francisco.
- Case study 2026: Valerie, AI vending machine operating autonomously in Frontier Tower, SF
- Stealth Travel Agent: Travel intelligence tool with WhatsApp integration to maximize travel research, points and credit card management.
- Restaurant wishlists: cookfoodie.com
- Market research agent for professional profiles, VC investments and travel news. I scrape 500+ sources daily with agents to summarize these markets.
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COO and CoFounder. Platzi W15. Launched in 2012. $350M valuation by Series C in 2022.
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Director Maestros del Web and Foros del Web. The Stack Overflow in Spanish in the early 2000s. 1 million posts.
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Founder Guate360. First 360° pictures in the country. Travel guide and popular blog.
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I also ran a web hosting provider and was a webmaster in the early 2000s.
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I was designing banners for Link Exchange in the late nineties. Learned HTML in 1997.