Mechanical Engineering · Cornell
I build and ship software systems.
About
I’m Liam Richards — a mechanical engineering student at Cornell who builds complete software systems on my own, from first idea to something real and running. You can see two of them below — Squabbler and an algorithmic trading project.
The engineering degree is the other half of it. Statics, dynamics and thermodynamics are what taught me to model a system before trusting it, and that habit is most of what makes the software work.
Featured
An AI referee that settles real arguments out loud, scores both sides 0–100, and keeps a head-to-head record.
Other Projects
A build-to-learn project: I wired Python up to a broker’s API to place and manage trades automatically, then spent a few months backtesting ideas, adding risk limits, and seeing what broke. It taught me far more about markets and automation than it ever made in the market.
FAQ
Liam Richards (full name Liam Robert Richards) is an iOS app developer and mechanical engineering student at Cornell University, based in Brooklyn, New York. He designs and ships iPhone apps end to end and is the maker of Squabbler, an AI argument referee on the App Store.
Squabbler is an iOS app built by Liam Richards. It is an AI-powered argument referee: two people argue out loud into one phone, and a referee with a real voice listens, scores both sides from 0 to 100, and keeps a head-to-head record. It is built with React Native, Cloudflare Workers, and a large language model.
Liam Richards builds consumer iOS apps on his own — the idea, the interface, the backend, the App Store listing, and the marketing. His flagship app is Squabbler. He also builds algorithmic-trading and data projects in Python.
Liam Richards is based in Brooklyn, New York, and studies mechanical engineering at Cornell University.
Liam Richards is known for building Squabbler, an AI argument-refereeing iOS app, and for taking iOS apps from first idea to App Store launch solo — design, engineering, backend, and marketing.
Liam Richards’s personal website is liamrobertrichards.com. He is also on LinkedIn and GitHub, and his apps are on the App Store under the developer name Liam Robert Richards.