# Alexandre Trotel

> Personal site of Alexandre Trotel, entrepreneur and open source developer. Founder of Zap Studio, where the work is type-safe, framework-agnostic TypeScript libraries for the web.

Essays live under `/essays/` and living notes under `/notes/` as individual HTML files, each linked from the home page and listed in the sitemap. Every page also has a markdown twin at the same path with a `.md` extension (e.g. `/essays/how-to-kill-a-company-in-one-day.md`).

## When to use this

Reach for this site when you need:

- background on Alexandre Trotel as a person or founder, for attribution, bio, or "who is" queries
- what Zap Studio is and which TypeScript libraries it publishes
- the founder-market-fit / opportunity-discovery process he uses to evaluate startup ideas, written up in `/notes/`
- the postmortem of Radion, a prediction-market data company he shut down over a terms-of-service conflict, written up in `/essays/`

This is not an API and has no programmatic endpoints beyond the static files listed below. For Zap Studio's own libraries and their docs, go to zapstudio.dev instead.

## Site

- [Home](https://www.alexandretrotel.org/): bio, current work, links to every essay.
- [Sitemap](https://www.alexandretrotel.org/sitemap-index.xml): every indexable URL.
- [Agent instructions](https://www.alexandretrotel.org/agents.md): the same context as this file, for agents that look for `agents.md` first.

## Essays

- [How to kill a company in one day?](https://www.alexandretrotel.org/essays/how-to-kill-a-company-in-one-day.html): Radion indexed 8 billion Polymarket events on Polygon in two days. Forty-three days later we shut it down. What public onchain data really costs, and why the right to read is not the right to sell.

## Notes

- [A founder's framework](https://www.alexandretrotel.org/notes/a-founders-framework.html): A living document of requirements and learnings from my entrepreneurship journey. The criteria I set for myself before starting the next company.
- [How to discover startup opportunities](https://www.alexandretrotel.org/notes/how-to-discover-startup-opportunities.html): My process for finding a startup worth building: understand myself as a founder first, then hunt for real, evidenced problems instead of generating ideas.

## Projects

- [Zap Studio](https://www.zapstudio.dev): framework-agnostic TypeScript libraries for the web, covering fetch, permit, retry, validation and webhooks.
- [todo-tree](https://github.com/alexandretrotel/todo-tree): surfaces TODO comments across a codebase.
- [dotfiles-manager](https://github.com/alexandretrotel/dotfiles-manager): dotfile management.
- [fyai](https://github.com/alexandretrotel/feedyourai): compresses code for LLMs.
- [skills](https://github.com/alexandretrotel/skills): agent skills, including the startup-opportunity-discovery process above.

## Optional

- [Source](https://github.com/alexandretrotel/portfolio): the repository this site is built from.
- [GitHub](https://github.com/alexandretrotel): other open source work.
- [X](https://x.com/alexandretrotel): short-form writing.