Currently building CALMEMAIL — let AI email assistants handle your inbox for you, you just ask! Past: - got selected from amongst 60000 builders into buildspace nights & weekends s5 (started building CalmEmail and launched V1 here) - built SecureSnap to help course creators sell more online but with trust (think of it as a TRUSTPILOT but for course creators ) - got selected into TheResidency (Round 1) - built ScaleeVision.com (video production agency) at 18 and worked with some of the best tech companies out there - it's still working, if you need an explainer video dm me Rejections till now: - rejected from yc s24 (applied with SecureSnap - that idea I talked about above) - rejected from ondeck accelerator (applied again next time - got till the final round but didn't show up to the call due to health reasons, and lost this chance) - rejected from Techstars (had applied with other idea (AI) which I thought had wings - but didn't make it - rejected from a16z speedrun - rejected from SouthParkCommons - rejected from Anthropic AI x Menlo ventures Anthology fund for ai startups + more... lot of rejections and some successes you get the point, right? who inspires me the most? - the goat Elon Musk I wouldn't be where I am today if I hadn't come to know this man. he changed me for good. will defn meet him someday also I'm a big fan of United States, silicon valley, sf and whole world. live with a moto of doing good for humanity. Info: My blog: heyayush.xyz My Twitter/X: @0xAyush1 What I post about here: startups and AI Positions: Head of everything at CalmEmail (2024 - Present), Member at RevGenius (2024 - Present), fellow builder at buildspace (2024 - 2024), Founder at ScaleVision (2023 - 2024), Founder at SecureSnap (2022 - 2023) Skills: Amazon Web Services (AWS), AWS Lambda, Text-to-Speech Synthesis, Back-End Web Development, Generative AI Tools, Content Automation, Apple Certified, Apple Products, Search Advertising, Product Marketing, Business, Google Gemini, OpenAI API, Programming, Software as a Service (SaaS), Project Management, JavaScript, Software Development, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Start-up Ventures, Fitness Industry, Healthcare, Mobile Applications, Marketing, Branding & Identity, Digital Video, Video Production, Engineering, Marketing Strategy, Graphic Design, Web Design, Computer Science, SaaS Development Recent Posts: funny af. did u forgot that they did went to Stanford? by the definition of VCs if u goto Stanford you're a unicorn founder already. you deserve it all. i mean whole VCs world is ready to throw their money at you because you're soo intelligent and ambitious. also if you're a startup founder from Stanford your chances of success reaches 99.9% - that's why VCs love u so much. For as long as ambitious tech builders have a collective hallucination that they must come to San Francisco to build and/or raise VC $, then the beautiful SF ecosystem will remain dominant. chat i found a way to detect fake ai influencers out there: what's it? this: #ai #chatgpt #agents ai engineers do yourself a favour: don't use langchain. yes, don't use. if you're using the same thing that everyone is using then you're also gonna end up with same low quality so called *rag infrastructure* build your own workflows that will give you the control of the ai system that you will built. otherwise you will be lost when you see that model was performing well some days ago and now then it fails at even the most simple tasks. langchain is building an abstraction layer around ai llms. so you probably won't even know what is going on behind the scenes. and you won't be having full control of the outcomes that you expect from rag or whether ai strategy u are using. ---------- #ai #rag #gpt #deepseek #aiagents #aistartups #langchain #llamaindex #aiframeworks #ml all ai startup founders are soo great. see me: i build pointless ai agents that don't change the world. #aistartups #startups what non developers get wrong about ai coding tools like Cursor and Copilot? it is that it's actually slower than having a developer. this is because the real job of most developers is not just making a feature... • it's making it fast, • well integrated, • loosely coupled and • actually useful. and most of this comes with long sessions with many stake holders and even user feedback. and this ai can't do. the sad thing is that most managers don't see this because most bad SWE made it seem that only writing the basic feature was such a titanic task but only because that way they could work little lol. -------- #ai #cursor #softwareengineering #coding #chatgpt #tech if your co-founder doesn't believe in founder mode then your startup is doomed to fail 💀 what non developers get wrong about ai coding tools like Cursor and Copilot? it is that it's actually slower than having a developer. this is because the real job of most developers is not just making a feature... • it's making it fast, • well integrated, • loosely coupled and • actually useful. and most of this comes with long sessions with many stake holders and even user feedback. and this ai can't do. the sad thing is that most managers don't see this because most bad SWE made it seem that only writing the basic feature was such a titanic task but only because that way they could work little lol. -------- #ai #cursor #softwareengineering #coding #chatgpt #tech we are messing up with something. that's the post. (note: don't zoom) #startup #aistartup #launch #v0 Mom, with AI, now anyone can code. The world doesn't need Software Engineers. #joke #funny #ai #agents #softwareengineers #coding #programming build your zip2 first then shoot for your Tesla. "mom now I too can code apps, the world doesn't need software engineers now!" next day: #ai #cursor #aiagents #coding #vscode "mom now I too can code apps, the world doesn't need software engineers now!" next day: #ai #cursor #aiagents #coding #vscode how to detect fake ai influencers? all of their post have one thing in common: it follows this pattern -> A xyz ai lab just launched an abcd ai model that is the BEST so and so model in the world. This is going to change the world forever. #ai #aistartups #cringe #funny tech ceos: we need captcha to detect who's robot and who's human. meanwhile me: it's insanely hard - am I a robot then? #captchas #ai #agents i spent 3 months learning to code and no one wants to give me a $200k tech job. The industry is broken!!! #techjob #coding #tech #ai #aiagents This is one of the most absurd ways to think about llm; People say it's ok for llms to hallucinate. But.. When your car doesn't start, do you call the mechanic or you just say "well, I also sometimes fall sick, that's ok"? Llms are machines. They shouldn't fail. Any machine should be reliable. I sometimes think people have forgotten the difference between what a human is and what a machine is these days. Nobody will remember, how hard you worked, how many quick 5 min calls u had. People will remember the time when linkedin offered u a board seat at a company It's funny that Anthropic says Claude is beast at generating production ready code, but won't let job applicants use it during their own coding interviews. kinda funny to know this. #claude #interviews #ai #jobs YC: "we are launching Z batch exclusively for AI startups-apply now and get $500k" After 10 months: #yc #ycf24 #paulgraham #ycombinator #founders #aistartups evil Garry: guys I don't want y'all to build yet another ai startup that is automating random stuff no one even cares about. leave your startup, and go get a good faang job instead. that's the safer path long term. #yc #garrytan #ycombinator #ai i think at this point shadcn should also apply to @ycombinator whole saas, ai agent saas, world depends on it. The impact of AI is not very hard to imagine. People with knowledge are being super charged by Al and.. People with lower levels of knowledge are using Al to waste even more time. you will hate me for posting this but I will still do it. Elon is right. Sam = Scam Python has become the language for AI. But here's the uncomfortable truth: • Production Al runs on C++ • Models train on CUDA • Inference runs on Rust • Python just takes credit What Python actually won: • Jupyter notebooks that never deploy • Medium articles about Al • GitHub repos nobody uses • VC pitch decks Real Al systems are: • Built in anything but Python • Optimized in low-level languages • Deployed without PyPI • Actually making money Python is the PowerPoint of Al: Great for presentations Terrible for performance #python #ai #chatgpt #aistartups #aiagents #programminglanguages Guys it's tooo much of YC's build something that doesn't scale advice.!!! You gotta build something that scales. If it doesn't scale the how would you even justify rasing $10m seed round and wasting it on making sure your ai agent outputs correctly in structured JSON?? #startupadvice #yc #ai #founders OpenAI spent $7M on a horrible Super Bowl ad. Meanwhile, DeepSeek trained a model much more powerful than OpenAI's top model for far less than their ad budget. #superbowl #ai #deepseek I hate the word *cutting edge*. This preety much sums up SF startup culture hahah #memes #yc #startup #engineering AI is much more cooler than saying "Artifical Intelligence" i have an AWS joke and it keeps on growing. Why Building Stuff Matters More Than Anything? I was thinking lately—why do all the people who went on to achieve great things in life have one thing in common? And that is: The passion to build stuff from scratch. When you build anything from scratch, you stay grounded in reality. You understand the pros and cons of every decision because you’re in the trenches, solving real problems, not just theorizing. Take Steve Jobs, for example. He didn’t just have ideas—he built them. From the first Apple computer in his garage to the iPhone that changed the world, Jobs was obsessed with creating. He cared about every detail, from the design to how it felt in your hand. That’s what made Apple more than just another tech company. Here’s the thing When you build, you learn. You fail. You adapt. And eventually, you create something that can change the world—or at least your world. So, if you want to do something meaningful, stop overthinking. Start building. I’m happy to share this Git-Blogger project I worked on. Check it out here: https://lnkd.in/dik4FQ-c Writing blogs on GitHub sucked so I had to do something so this is what I came up with it was more of like a tool i needed - so i built it. Most investors are wrong. that’s why only 1-2% of VC-backed companies get anywhere. The customer, on the other hand, is never wrong. #founders #yc #startups #investors #stanford this, unfortunately seems like a viable business plan 😂 #sf #bayarea #startups #vc #investing #ai #sanfrancisco #memes OpenAI (mostly sam) thinks that the only way to compete with open source Deepseek is to raise more money. Ultimately OpenAI will become a company which will only be known for raising money and DeepSeek + Open source would be the one who ship meaningful things. Sam thinks raising more money will give them popularity and make people think they're the real company who deeply believe in dream of AGI. Meanwhile open source would keep crushing them again and again. #ai #openai #deepseek #chqtgpt #agi #startups #valuation #investors #samaltman Vertical AI Agents - we are building something in that niche (stay tuned, yc you too) it's so funny to watch investors on linkedin post about technical details of DeepSeek AI R1 model as if they're ex-ai-researchers 😆 DeepSeek AI well done. This is power of open source. No one would have ever wondered open source could do so much harm to a publicly traded company. This will make the investors (who invested billions in data centers) to question their decision. China showed to the world what true machine learning is + how to optimise it and decrease the inference time. --------- #deepseekai #deepseek #chatgpt #openai #nvidia #ai #aiagents #aistartups open source will always win. hell yeah my feed is now full of DeepSeek AI posts and i love this. never knew that TikTok would be the one that'd come for all the AI code editors. RIP Cursor ai. The best thing is that Trae is completely free. you can try for yourself at https://trae.ai I haven tried it yet but would give it a shot and see how it goes. It might be powered by #deepseekai new R1 model. OpenAI is in huge trouble lol 😆 Now they are not the only ones who are giving away stuff for free to the users. China is back in the race! -------- #aicodeeditor #tiktok #aistrtup #coding #yc #a16z Guys im so excited to launch my new ai startup that allows non techies to build softwares at the speed of light and replace software engineers entirely. here's the link to it. (i used my ai startup to built this) here's it: https://localhost:8000 Between OpenAI and DeepSeek AI , two companies who improve their models using data gathered from their official ui's.. id rather give my data to Deepseek that returns the favor to the open source community, and does so much more willingly than OpenAl. #opensource #gpt #ai #openai DeepSeek has officially won. Shame on OpenAI for not being open enough. DeepSeek just released a model far more powerful than GPT-4 (and O1), and guess what? The world didn’t fall apart. For years OpenAI preached that open-sourcing GPT-4 would be a global risk. Their main fear? Countries like China might misuse it. Here’s the kicker: DeepSeek is a Chinese company, and theyve flipped the game. Not only have they entered the AI race, they’re leading it. Here’s the real twist: DeepSeek managed to train their model, DeepSeek R1, with just $5M. Compare that to OpenAI, which raised $6B, yet seems more focused on hype than real breakthroughs. DeepSeek didn’t waste resources. Instead, they built everything from scratch, optimized for cost, and then made it open source. It’s ironic, isn’t it? The company OpenAI feared would misuse AI is now the one that’s advancing it responsibly—and winning. This isn’t just about tech. It’s a wake-up call: transparency wins over closed ecosystems and empty promises. ---------- #openai #deepseek #ai #chatgpt #opensource #gpt4 #aiagents totally true Most people are lying to you. OpenAI operator isn't going to kil ur vertical AI saas. Remember these were the same people who told that SearchGPT will render Google useless. And it's almost 3 months and we still use Google. And yes PerplexityAI is still worth $9bn Don't believe in the hype again. These people on internet are there to make $s with impressions + want to sell you some bs ai course. Don't believe them. --------- #openai #chatgpt #google #ai #aiagents #startups #YC job postings are getting a lot weirder these days: #softwareengineering #techjob #developers Guys im so excited to launch my new ai startup that allows non techies to build softwares at the speed of light and replace software engineers entirely. here's the link to it. (i used my ai startup to built this) here's it: https://localhost:8000 "you fuel the ai hype and then say people should stop it" surprised to see it take soo long for altman to come to this realisation #ai #agi #openai #chatgpt HIGHLY WRONG. Money is everything. Money can get you 100s of Nvidia GPU clusters.