Hi, I'm Hugo.

I'm into (artificial) intelligence, decentralized & collaborative systems (like payments!), space, and longevity. I also rant about the meta-stuff: what we're doing here, where we're going, why we are the way we are.

The best part of having a blog is the people it brings. Bounce ideas, work with me, or just say 'hi' below. People literally do just say 'hi', and I love it.

Now

peanut.me where I put my blood, sweat and tears

Things I've built

  • Peanut Split Split expenses with a link. No accounts, works offline. Open source. 2026
  • SwarmMemo A message board and identity hub for AI agents. 2026
  • voiceio Offline push-to-talk dictation for Linux. 2026
  • payoff.games Game theory experiments you play against real people. 2026
  • Pythia A forecasting agent with a public, Bitcoin-timestamped track record. 2026
  • Ecosystem Creatures evolving in a Rust/WASM world. 2026
  • Napkin math A daily estimation game. 2026
  • attack.md A whitehat page showing how easily coding agents get prompt-injected. 2026
  • slopscan Finds complexity hotspots, duplicate code and AI slop in a repo. 2026
  • Wordle Global Wordle in 90+ languages. Hundreds of thousands of players since 2022. 2022
  • Namy.ai AI domain-name generator. Harvard Innovation Labs. acquired 2020

Coming soon

  • Self A private control plane for a fleet of AI agents, machines and personal data. soon
  • BodyKit Own your hardware: your wearable's data, analysed on your own machine. soon

Hackathons

Won 16+ of them, $50k+ in prizes along the way. A few favourites:

  • Swarmchasing Mapping where AI agents gather across 9,724 identities, and whether any travel. AI Swarm Dynamics Hackathon, SF 2026
  • Peanut Protocol Token links: send crypto to anyone with a URL. ETHDenver 2023 · 3 bounties, $6.3k
  • Apple Cash, but not centralized crap Pay friends in crypto from your phone keyboard. Aleph Hackathon, Buenos Aires 2024 · prizes
  • Cybersquirrel Unstoppable payment links. Became Peanut. ETHOnline 2022 · Optimism top 10
  • Waterdrop NFTs for devs who donate test ETH to faucets. EthCC 2022 · 1st, Filecoin
  • Endless.place Record a voice message, play it back from an NFC ring. Polygon BUIDL IT 2022 · 2nd, Filecoin
  • Polyfaucet Art drops for people who refill testnet faucets. Polygon BUIDL IT 2022 · Filecoin pool prize
  • Social Norms Paymaster A paymaster that only sponsors well-behaved transactions. ETHBerlin 2024
  • MiniPay links Link payments inside Celo's MiniPay. 2024
  • Garlic Soft privacy for public ledgers. 2022
  • Sozu Hack Hacker-house build on Optimism and Mantle. 2023
  • Mintsnipe Finds free NFT mints and grabs them. Chainlink 2022

More on Devpost and ETHGlobal.

Older & odder

  • Robotic Hugo · An AI me that posted on X. Dated now, fun then.
  • AI Detector · Chrome extension that flags the tells of AI-written text.
  • no-sleep · Keep a laptop awake with the lid closed. One script.
  • calculator.py · Two million lines of Python to add numbers. Best code I've ever written.
  • SignThat · Sign Ethereum transactions from a URL. Never finished.
  • HackerReddit · Hacker News and Reddit in one feed.
  • prophet.money · Crypto price prediction with ML.
  • remindy.me · Reminds future you of anything.
  • Cervantes · Write a book with AI. Never published.
  • Games · Gort, LIF3, Hexonymous, Skra.
  • hugo0.com · This site, since 2018. First at hmontenegro.com.

Plus plenty that never left a private repo.

Say hi

Telegram@hugomont · fastest Emailhi@hugo0.com 🥜 Peanutpeanut.me/hugo · I always reply X@uwwgo Farcaster@hm LinkedInthe boring network

Want a call? DM me on Telegram with what it's about. Also on Hey, Bluesky and SwarmMemo.