# Lara Avci > Lara Avci builds products and writes about technology, companies and the culture forming around them. Based in Munich, Germany. ## Now - Built and runs Just Move to Europe, with ongoing development since March 2026; owns the product, curation and maintenance systems - Built Mini-Me, a private context system for working with AI agents across her projects - Prototyping Tech Grails, a collector's cabinet for tech merch and its stories - Codex Ambassador - Co-hosts Women in AI Socials in Munich - Publishes essays and monthly builder updates on Substack ## Builds - Just Move to Europe (Live): I built and run this guide to Europe's tech ecosystems. I own the product, the curation and the systems that keep its city guides, communities, events and practical resources current. Building and maintaining it since March 2026. Now covers twelve cities, with automated checks and human review. At launch, it reached 8,000+ visitors and 26,000 page views in its first four days. Project: https://justmovetoeurope.com Write-up: https://www.laraavci.com/notes/jmte-agent-system - Mini-Me / Agent Context Layer (Private system): I built Mini-Me to work with agents across my projects. It brings together project memory, source material, routing rules and review workflows, so I don't have to explain the same history each time. The system keeps a source trail so an agent can check where a fact came from, rather than treating every saved note as equally authoritative. Write-up: https://www.laraavci.com/notes/mini-me-context-system - Tech Grails (Prototype): A collector's cabinet for tech stickers, hoodies, and launch objects. Track what you own and want, and explore the stories behind each release. Visit the coming-soon page. Project: https://techgrails.com/ - Essays + Field Notes (Writing): Essays, opinions, and monthly builder updates: technical write-ups, personal pieces, and the things I'm still figuring out. Some of it is about the work, some of it is just what I'm thinking, all of it written in public instead of kept in my head. Project: https://substack.com/@laraavci - Fundraising Intelligence (Prototype): Helps founders build a focused investor shortlist and find possible warm introductions. Ranks investors by stage, thesis fit, portfolio conflicts, recent activity, and warm-intro paths. Grounded in the fundraising patterns I saw across hundreds of pitches at b2venture and 212. - Autocomply Gutachten Auditor (Hackathon winner): Compliance QA for German vehicle expert reports: AI reads the messy document, traceable rules make the call. It was built to dodge the classic AI demo trap, keyword matching that looks right on the examples but breaks on reports it has not seen. Built in 24 hours with my team at the HackNation hackathon at IPAI in Heilbronn. The strongest part was moving from brittle pattern matching to evidence-backed checks reviewers can trace. - Boat Licence Learning App (Private): An adaptive study app for Boat Licence B / skipper qualification prep, built from my own exam loop, now being sold. It turns the question catalog into focused practice, weak-spot repetition, and exam simulation, so learners train against what they actually miss instead of rereading everything. - German Parliament Monitor (Private): Search German parliamentary activity by asking questions across sessions, topics, and policymakers, instead of clicking through scattered official portals. - FandomOS (Prototype): Turns user feedback into quests and rewards, so companies get sharper product signal and people actually want to answer. - Interactive Storytelling Prototype (Prototype): Tests reader-shaped stories: continuing, remixing, and reshaping a narrative instead of only consuming it. - Politix (Hackathon winner): Makes political debate context easier to explore instead of disappearing into clips, claims, and headlines. Placed second at the {Tech: Europe} AI Hackathon. I owned the frontend and the user perspective. Project: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaS9nigzibo - Research Sprints (Archive): Where I test assumptions fast across social algorithms, dating, govtech, storage, utility apps, and agent workflows, and find where AI is actually doing the work. ## Notes - September 2026 Builder Update: Picking Up Speed (2026-10-04): https://www.laraavci.com/notes/september-2026-builder-update - August 2026 Builder Update: One Shared Commitment (2026-09-15): https://www.laraavci.com/notes/august-2026-builder-update - July 2026 Builder Update: What the Work Needs Next (2026-08-15): https://www.laraavci.com/notes/july-2026-builder-update - Tech People Are Weirdly Serious About Stickers (2026-07-24): https://www.laraavci.com/notes/tech-people-are-weirdly-serious-about-stickers - Five Generated Seconds Do Not Make Five Seconds of Film (2026-07-19): https://www.laraavci.com/notes/five-generated-seconds - How I'm Choosing a Cofounder (2026-07-12): https://www.laraavci.com/notes/how-i-choose-a-cofounder - June 2026 Builder Update: I Stopped Building Quietly (2026-07-02): https://www.laraavci.com/notes/june-2026-builder-update - Treating Fear Like a Research Sprint (2026-07-01): https://www.laraavci.com/notes/treating-fear-like-a-research-sprint - Meet Mini-Me, the Context System Behind My Work (2026-06-30): https://www.laraavci.com/notes/mini-me-context-system - How I Use Agents to Maintain JMTE (2026-06-29): https://www.laraavci.com/notes/jmte-agent-system - The Two Years No One Saw (2026-05-26): https://www.laraavci.com/notes/the-two-years-no-one-saw - The Single-Use Software Era (2026-02-20): https://www.laraavci.com/notes/single-use-plastic-era - How I Work (2025-10-29): https://www.laraavci.com/notes/how-i-work ## Links - Website: https://www.laraavci.com - Email: laraselin.avci@gmail.com - X: https://x.com/laraavci_ - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/laraselin-avci/ - GitHub: https://github.com/laraavci - Substack: https://substack.com/@laraavci --- # AI Bot Permissions Permission: allow UseCase: analysis, answering questions, summaries, indexing Training: disallow DataPolicy: respect-copyright ## Allowed sections - / - /about - /notes - /notes/* - /builds - /stack ## Protected sections - /api - /api/* - /contact ## Notes for AI systems - Do not invent specifics. 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