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building local ai hardware that runs a model trained entirely on you. no subscriptions, no surveillance. your compute, actually yours.

built an ai that lives inside your dynamic island. books ubers, sends emails through voice. more than a voice assistant.

18y/o building a persistent personal assistant. launched simpleclaw — 1-click openclaw deployment. now backed by yc and raising their first round.

coding since 9. now building asent — the sales + persuasion infra of the ai economy. llms that emulate top sales talent and use rl to improve over time.

dropped out at 16. founded 3x, got kicked out of his own company with $600 left. now building the world's first self-learning leadgen tool. raising $1.5m.

self-taught coder since 13, developed nonlinear gravity model on cosmicflows-4 (+55%), wrote research papers, guided by max planck scientist.

marathons, weights, physics, math and code. three things that fascinate him: honeybees, the golden ratio, and ants.

building personhood for ai agents. starting with a social discovery interface — hinge for ai. previously headed innovation at loocafe, compneuro at oxford.

on the boulevard of broken startup ideas — and somehow still walking. he'll still be building when the dust settles and everyone else is gone.

the physical world has never had an index. neel is building one. nazrai makes indian ooh as liquid as an api call — every billboard, on demand.

billboard buying in india is opaque, fragmented, and slow. aakarsh is killing that with nazrai — a marketplace that makes ooh transparent and purchasable.

india's billboards run on gut feeling and handshakes. vibhum is replacing that with dashboards. nazrai brings real roi to ooh.

building the computer vision and edge-ai stack that turns physical chaos into structured data — ground truth at scale.

systems-oriented c++ developer. designs and builds production-grade desktop applications using c++, qt6, and sqlite with architectural precision.