Menua Vardanyan
Founder of Moon Labs. Final year at PhysMath School.
I’m seventeen. I run Moon Labs, a registered software company in Yerevan, and I write the code for everything it ships. I have shipped five products, and all of them are live today. I also work at Chessify, a chess analysis company.
The largest is GlowAI. It has passed 4,400 accounts on iOS and Android, and I have not spent anything on ads to get them.
Founder / developer / support
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02 / The work
Five products, all live.
I design, build and support each one myself, from the first commit to the store listing and the support inbox.
- 01GlowAIiOS + Android
Measures a face from two photos: 468 landmarks on each, 75 measurements, every one scored against published anthropometric ranges. Past 4,400 accounts. Semifinalist in the Booster track at Seaside Startup Summit 2026.
- 02MunuWindows + Mac
A voice assistant for Windows and Mac. You say its name and ask, it keeps notes you own, and MediaPipe hand tracking lets you move the pointer with your bare hand.
- 03DockTermmacOS, Windows, Linux
An open source desktop workspace for Claude Code, MIT licensed, signed and notarised on macOS. It keeps the real terminal in the middle and brings in diffs, git and usage panels when you ask.
- 04Խաղա՞նքiOS + Android
Five offline party games for a table of friends, with 787 words written separately for Armenian, English and Russian players. No account and no ads.
- 05Only Jump Up!Android
My first commercial release, built in Unity at 14. Over 1,000 downloads, and players still post runs to its speedrun.com leaderboard.
03 / How I work
Results I can show.
Hack Armenia 2026 · August
25% → 0%
Emergency triage in Armenian, built in 24 hours
I was lead engineer on a team of four building Բուժընկեր, a triage assistant for people deciding whether to call 103, the Armenian ambulance line. I owned the triage pipeline and the safety layer, and built the Android app. On 28 clinical vignettes, keyword rules alone under-triaged 25% of emergencies. The full pipeline under-triaged none. A rule-based red flag check runs before any model call, in 0.02 ms, and all 613 tests run without a network.
Source on GitHub (opens in a new tab)GlowAI · Seaside Startup Summit 2026
Semifinal
Booster track, for startups with real users
GlowAI reached the semifinal of the Booster track. It places 468 landmarks on each photo and scores 75 measurements against published anthropometric ranges from Farkas, Powell, Naini and Sarver, so the same face always returns the same result. It has passed 4,400 accounts with nothing spent on marketing.
Munu · voice assistant
400 ms
From speaking to acting, measured
Batch transcription left 2,355 ms of dead air on every turn. I raced a live streaming recogniser against it and the wait before Munu acts dropped to about 400 ms. A virtual microphone plays recordings through the real pipeline, so 30 automated tests check how it wakes and how it lets you interrupt.
Chessify · browser extension
2 sites
Reading a live chess board off the page
At Chessify, a chess analysis and engine company, I built the browser extension that reads a live board while you play. The two sites it supports draw the board in completely different ways, and the extension turns both into the same clean position for the engine.
04 / Away from the screen
Outside the apps.
Mini Sumo robot
An autonomous robot on a PCB I designed in KiCad, with a Raspberry Pi Pico, DRV8874 motor drivers and VL53L1X distance sensors. I took it to RoboChallenge in Bucharest, October 31 to November 2, 2025, with the PhysMath and Root ITSP team.
Drones and planes
A 5 inch FPV drone I built and tuned myself, and a 3D printed RC plane.
Security
CTF competitions, and regular practice on Hack The Box and TryHackMe.
AI seminar in Bochum
February to March 2026, a seminar run by DIALOG eV in Bochum on deep learning, from MNIST to backpropagation.
Seaside Startup Summit
I volunteered at two earlier editions. In 2026 I came back with GlowAI, reached the Booster track semifinal, and trained with a founder for five days, four hours a day.
MG7 and chess
I run MG7, a YouTube channel with about 10,000 subscribers. I have played chess for eight years and I am the strongest player in my class.
05 / Timeline
From 14 to now.
- At 14Only Jump Up! goes on Google Play. My first commercial release.
- September 2024I start Moon Labs, the name everything I make ships under.
- September 2025I start building GlowAI.
- November 2025RoboChallenge in Bucharest with my Mini Sumo robot.
- March 2026I finish the DIALOG eV AI seminar in Bochum.
- June 2026GlowAI launches on the App Store and Google Play. I start DockTerm.
- 2026GlowAI reaches the Booster track semifinal at Seaside Startup Summit.
- August 2026Lead engineer on Բուժընկեր at Hack Armenia 2026. I start Munu.
- October 2026Խաղա՞նք goes live on both stores. GlowAI passes 4,400 accounts.
- 2027I graduate from PhysMath School.
06 / Common questions
Useful context, in plain language.
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07 / Contact
Write to me.
I read every message myself and usually reply within 48 hours.