sup everyone, it’s been almost a month and a bunch of people have been asking questions. i don’t love replying 1v1, so i’m just putting everything here. lmk if there’s more:
1. do u regret not going to stanford / harvard?
A: lowkey the only regret about college is that i could’ve gone on more dates cuz right now there’s barely any time + sf is cooked (the women to men ratio is insane so everyone just goes to nyc which i did)
2. I’m curious - what were you doing back in 8–9th grade? Were you already building stuff or just learning how to code?
A: built ios apps, a lot of video games, lifemaxxed, played pro volleyball, grinded school, read manga
3. And what programming language did you start learning?
A: py & ts
4. if someone’s into CS / ML / AI, what would you suggest focusing on first? Maybe pitching, hackathons, or just learn to code nonstop?
A: just build cool shit and leverage ai tools. hackathons are rlly cool btw, they can open a lot of doors.
5. are u hiring?
A: the past month and march have been kinda insane in terms of the people I’m meeting and the things that are happening. I can’t share details yet, but it’s very interesting. tldr: yes, max 2 to 3 people for now.
6. whats ur philosophy on hiring?
A: geniuses only. high agency is the number one priority, and I can usually tell if someone has it because I’ve seen clear patterns among the successful founders I’ve met so far. I’m hiring technical people who are artists, who constantly want to expand their knowledge or aspire to, and who are obsessed with automating their own repetitive tasks through code, product, or AI (college kids, students, builders who have created cool things in the past).
7. best accelerators / programs for founders?
A: yc, hf0, a16z speedrun, spc, neo, z fellows. entrepreneurs first can be a good start but imo it’s mid (i dropped out + bunch of my friends)
8. fav artist or group?
A: chase atlantic, keshi & sonder
9. openai or anthropic for coding?
A: gpt 5-3 codex high reasoning → tasks that require a lot of planning and deep understanding. opus 4.6 1m → overall best. if i had to pick, probably codex for now.
10. what is the current moat in the AI era?
A: code is cheap. software is cheap. the only real moats are character, taste, speed of iteration, and how fast you can adapt to change.
naval ravikant has a quote that pretty much sums up what’s happening: “pure software is rapidly becoming uninvestable.”
1. do u regret not going to stanford / harvard?
A: lowkey the only regret about college is that i could’ve gone on more dates cuz right now there’s barely any time + sf is cooked (the women to men ratio is insane so everyone just goes to nyc which i did)
2. I’m curious - what were you doing back in 8–9th grade? Were you already building stuff or just learning how to code?
A: built ios apps, a lot of video games, lifemaxxed, played pro volleyball, grinded school, read manga
3. And what programming language did you start learning?
A: py & ts
4. if someone’s into CS / ML / AI, what would you suggest focusing on first? Maybe pitching, hackathons, or just learn to code nonstop?
A: just build cool shit and leverage ai tools. hackathons are rlly cool btw, they can open a lot of doors.
5. are u hiring?
A: the past month and march have been kinda insane in terms of the people I’m meeting and the things that are happening. I can’t share details yet, but it’s very interesting. tldr: yes, max 2 to 3 people for now.
6. whats ur philosophy on hiring?
A: geniuses only. high agency is the number one priority, and I can usually tell if someone has it because I’ve seen clear patterns among the successful founders I’ve met so far. I’m hiring technical people who are artists, who constantly want to expand their knowledge or aspire to, and who are obsessed with automating their own repetitive tasks through code, product, or AI (college kids, students, builders who have created cool things in the past).
7. best accelerators / programs for founders?
A: yc, hf0, a16z speedrun, spc, neo, z fellows. entrepreneurs first can be a good start but imo it’s mid (i dropped out + bunch of my friends)
8. fav artist or group?
A: chase atlantic, keshi & sonder
9. openai or anthropic for coding?
A: gpt 5-3 codex high reasoning → tasks that require a lot of planning and deep understanding. opus 4.6 1m → overall best. if i had to pick, probably codex for now.
10. what is the current moat in the AI era?
A: code is cheap. software is cheap. the only real moats are character, taste, speed of iteration, and how fast you can adapt to change.
naval ravikant has a quote that pretty much sums up what’s happening: “pure software is rapidly becoming uninvestable.”
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launch day + updates:
1) our usage grew by 2,270% since initial launch
2) we are iterating on the product faster than ever, so much uncertainty but it's fun
3) we invented new type of search
4) we brought 3 more strategic investors (2 researchers from google deepmind + board member of pinterest, meta, google, and coinbase)
back to work🌟
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/arlan-rakhmetzhanov_introducing-nozomio-v1-the-best-search-and-ugcPost-7434296720898887680-ZpPi
1) our usage grew by 2,270% since initial launch
2) we are iterating on the product faster than ever, so much uncertainty but it's fun
3) we invented new type of search
4) we brought 3 more strategic investors (2 researchers from google deepmind + board member of pinterest, meta, google, and coinbase)
back to work
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/arlan-rakhmetzhanov_introducing-nozomio-v1-the-best-search-and-ugcPost-7434296720898887680-ZpPi
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Nozomio v1: AI Agent Context API for Technical Data | Arlan Rakhmetzhanov posted on the topic | LinkedIn
Introducing Nozomio v1, the best search and index API for technical data.
When I finished Y Combinator, I announced Nozomio as a standalone MCP server that gives agents up to date docs.
A lot has changed since then.
Watching how customers actually use…
When I finished Y Combinator, I announced Nozomio as a standalone MCP server that gives agents up to date docs.
A lot has changed since then.
Watching how customers actually use…
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I am a high schooler who has been running a $50M+ startup completely solo for almost a year. Here is what I learned:
thanks to AI, it is more than possible to build a unicorn with a 2-3 person team, but it is like playing Minecraft on ultra-hardcore mode with 3 hearts instead of 10. It will stress you out, put you through agony, and force discipline on you like nothing else.
First, why would I even run a startup alone?
For context, I dropped out of 11th grade from pretty much third-world country, and my school was still figuring out how to use GPT-3.5 while I was shipping 5k+ lines of code per day during class.
90% of people around me did not even know what a startup was and were more interested in traditional career paths like investment banking or nursing. Ever since I was little, I wanted to take the biggest risks possible, so building a company felt like the obvious path.
Since no one around me cared about building something huge, I dropped out, pursued my dream of becoming a Silicon Valley entrepreneur, and flew to SF for Y Combinator Summer 2025. Here I am today, still in the trenches, but in the funniest and most intense period of my life.
1) You become really good at multitasking.
When you are solo, you handle everything at once: sales calls, bug fixes, and talking to users. I set up automations to route support tickets to my phone, bought extra monitors to keep Slack and Twitter open 24/7, and coded in Ubers.
It gets really chaotic after a couple of weeks, and I would not recommend this path to most people. But over time, it sharpens your critical thinking and teaches you how to prioritize under pressure and break down tasks faster.
2) You have to be terminally online.
I am known for replying at AI speed. Not because I use AI to reply to everyone, but because I am addicted to my phone and obsessed with customers.
When a user messages me, I reply in 10 seconds and try to fix things immediately, even if I am on the toilet. In the early days, iteration speed and how fast the founder fixes bugs matter more than polish. Customers usually respect that.
3) AI 10x’s you as a founder, engineer, designer, and more.
As a solo founder, you learn very quickly how to use it well. You notice nitpicks others miss, stay glued to Twitter to keep up with AI research, and adopt tools as early as possible.
I was one of the first people obsessing over file systems and researching how agents should fundamentally interact with humans. Combine laziness with AI addiction, and it becomes a ridiculous productivity weapon. Leveraged properly, it can compress years of learning into months.
There is definitely more I would love to share, but these were the first things that came to mind. Thanks for reading.
(i started hiring 1 mo ago hence wrote this)
thanks to AI, it is more than possible to build a unicorn with a 2-3 person team, but it is like playing Minecraft on ultra-hardcore mode with 3 hearts instead of 10. It will stress you out, put you through agony, and force discipline on you like nothing else.
First, why would I even run a startup alone?
For context, I dropped out of 11th grade from pretty much third-world country, and my school was still figuring out how to use GPT-3.5 while I was shipping 5k+ lines of code per day during class.
90% of people around me did not even know what a startup was and were more interested in traditional career paths like investment banking or nursing. Ever since I was little, I wanted to take the biggest risks possible, so building a company felt like the obvious path.
Since no one around me cared about building something huge, I dropped out, pursued my dream of becoming a Silicon Valley entrepreneur, and flew to SF for Y Combinator Summer 2025. Here I am today, still in the trenches, but in the funniest and most intense period of my life.
1) You become really good at multitasking.
When you are solo, you handle everything at once: sales calls, bug fixes, and talking to users. I set up automations to route support tickets to my phone, bought extra monitors to keep Slack and Twitter open 24/7, and coded in Ubers.
It gets really chaotic after a couple of weeks, and I would not recommend this path to most people. But over time, it sharpens your critical thinking and teaches you how to prioritize under pressure and break down tasks faster.
2) You have to be terminally online.
I am known for replying at AI speed. Not because I use AI to reply to everyone, but because I am addicted to my phone and obsessed with customers.
When a user messages me, I reply in 10 seconds and try to fix things immediately, even if I am on the toilet. In the early days, iteration speed and how fast the founder fixes bugs matter more than polish. Customers usually respect that.
3) AI 10x’s you as a founder, engineer, designer, and more.
As a solo founder, you learn very quickly how to use it well. You notice nitpicks others miss, stay glued to Twitter to keep up with AI research, and adopt tools as early as possible.
I was one of the first people obsessing over file systems and researching how agents should fundamentally interact with humans. Combine laziness with AI addiction, and it becomes a ridiculous productivity weapon. Leveraged properly, it can compress years of learning into months.
There is definitely more I would love to share, but these were the first things that came to mind. Thanks for reading.
(i started hiring 1 mo ago hence wrote this)
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got this comment under my last post:
"you really want to start worldwide startup, you gotta create something dumb but usable (I mean b2c that covers basic necessities such as: eating, attracting other gender's attention, real estate) in own country to get wealth for financing huge startup or try to find sponsors and give them % of your enterprise? in your case u had some money even to leave this country to SF, so for you that wasn't a big deal, Im not underestimating your company, but what would you suggest to guys who have intention to learn, cause in startups the most important thing is to identify for what people willing to pay and make connections?"
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you don’t need to build some “local money machine” first or give away big % just to start.
if your goal is to build something global, optimize for being in the right environment + speed of learning, not just initial capital.
people massively overestimate how much money you need and underestimate how much leverage you can get from being high-agency, technical, and obsessed with users.
Elon Musk moved from south africa to canada in 1989 at age 17 and only had $2–3k, but just because he was delusional and curious enough, it turned out to be one of his best decisions ever. later on he decided to finish his studies at University of Pennsylvania and then get a shit ton of experience in the united states (people who think dad made his career are just grifters and should stfu)
that’s another thing about all asian countries including kazakhstan, korea, japan: the startup culture is completely different because in those countries you are used to a hierarchy of fat bald-head chuds who hate their wife and just want to make a lot of money while limiting all the opportunities that young people can bring to the table.
why do you think the japan/korean startup ecosystem fucking sucks?
1. kids are forced to take tutoring classes before they even get to high school
2. asian parents force them to become consultants or doctors
3. they are getting brainwashed that a stable life with more or less ok income is the best way to live life (meaning no risks)
4. chaebol (korean top companies) rule the entire country and limit resources younger people can pursue because those families are literally above the law and will pass everything down to their kids anyway (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-31059032)
tldr is that you don’t need a shit ton of money + experience to go to the states or any other country. it all comes down to how bad you want it and whether you are high agency and love putting your balls on the line.
i have a friend who is a solo founder who grew up in ethiopia but ended up in yc a couple months later and built the best auth framework known to mankind (better auth) + raised 4m or smth
"you really want to start worldwide startup, you gotta create something dumb but usable (I mean b2c that covers basic necessities such as: eating, attracting other gender's attention, real estate) in own country to get wealth for financing huge startup or try to find sponsors and give them % of your enterprise? in your case u had some money even to leave this country to SF, so for you that wasn't a big deal, Im not underestimating your company, but what would you suggest to guys who have intention to learn, cause in startups the most important thing is to identify for what people willing to pay and make connections?"
-----
you don’t need to build some “local money machine” first or give away big % just to start.
if your goal is to build something global, optimize for being in the right environment + speed of learning, not just initial capital.
people massively overestimate how much money you need and underestimate how much leverage you can get from being high-agency, technical, and obsessed with users.
Elon Musk moved from south africa to canada in 1989 at age 17 and only had $2–3k, but just because he was delusional and curious enough, it turned out to be one of his best decisions ever. later on he decided to finish his studies at University of Pennsylvania and then get a shit ton of experience in the united states (people who think dad made his career are just grifters and should stfu)
that’s another thing about all asian countries including kazakhstan, korea, japan: the startup culture is completely different because in those countries you are used to a hierarchy of fat bald-head chuds who hate their wife and just want to make a lot of money while limiting all the opportunities that young people can bring to the table.
why do you think the japan/korean startup ecosystem fucking sucks?
1. kids are forced to take tutoring classes before they even get to high school
2. asian parents force them to become consultants or doctors
3. they are getting brainwashed that a stable life with more or less ok income is the best way to live life (meaning no risks)
4. chaebol (korean top companies) rule the entire country and limit resources younger people can pursue because those families are literally above the law and will pass everything down to their kids anyway (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-31059032)
tldr is that you don’t need a shit ton of money + experience to go to the states or any other country. it all comes down to how bad you want it and whether you are high agency and love putting your balls on the line.
i have a friend who is a solo founder who grew up in ethiopia but ended up in yc a couple months later and built the best auth framework known to mankind (better auth) + raised 4m or smth
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i have an extremely good camera setup and was thinking of starting to post on ig reels
if yes, what should i post? what would people even want to watch?
pls no cluely mentions
if yes, what should i post? what would people even want to watch?
pls no cluely mentions
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introducing folk.
i spent the last 10 months building nozomio.com, researching how context, search and memory across one's data and life applies to different domains.
today i'm announcing v0 of folk, an ai friend that gets shit done.
i almost never post product updates on socials except X but this one is built for busy people AND normies (my brother uses it daily).
first q: how is it different from openclaw?
1) openclaw is extremely messy
2) not built for people outside the ai bubble
3) u need a fucking mac mini or VPS
4) u need some terminal experience
5) we have 10x better memory + context
6) friendly plan, unlimited ai inference.
folk lives in your telegram, imessage and discord. research flights, stalk your situationship, read polymarket, automate browser work, and more.
my use cases:
1) competitor digest at 8am daily
2) arXiv research digest nightly
3) twitter mgmt. gave it access so it scrapes news, posts for me, and ACTUALLY gets my writing style
4) pinterest scraper
text it here: getfolk.app
i spent the last 10 months building nozomio.com, researching how context, search and memory across one's data and life applies to different domains.
today i'm announcing v0 of folk, an ai friend that gets shit done.
i almost never post product updates on socials except X but this one is built for busy people AND normies (my brother uses it daily).
first q: how is it different from openclaw?
1) openclaw is extremely messy
2) not built for people outside the ai bubble
3) u need a fucking mac mini or VPS
4) u need some terminal experience
5) we have 10x better memory + context
6) friendly plan, unlimited ai inference.
folk lives in your telegram, imessage and discord. research flights, stalk your situationship, read polymarket, automate browser work, and more.
my use cases:
1) competitor digest at 8am daily
2) arXiv research digest nightly
3) twitter mgmt. gave it access so it scrapes news, posts for me, and ACTUALLY gets my writing style
4) pinterest scraper
text it here: getfolk.app
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new in getfolk.app:
message to website.
you can now ask folk to build any app for you and get a shareable link you can send to your friends.
here is the app he built: https://arlan-redo-ueke.getfolk.app
message to website.
you can now ask folk to build any app for you and get a shareable link you can send to your friends.
here is the app he built: https://arlan-redo-ueke.getfolk.app
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you can now easily start cursor agents thru your imessage & telegram
use it while gooning / outside / on a date + more
https://www.getfolk.app/
use it while gooning / outside / on a date + more
https://www.getfolk.app/
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we fixed geo permissions for kazakhstan and other central asian countries, so everyone can sign up now :)
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folk by nozomio is live on product hunt.
it lives in your texts. remembers everything. shows up at the right moment on its own. and your folk can team up with your friends' folk to actually get things done.
pls support us ❤️
code FOLK for 15% off btw
https://www.producthunt.com/products/folk-3
it lives in your texts. remembers everything. shows up at the right moment on its own. and your folk can team up with your friends' folk to actually get things done.
pls support us ❤️
code FOLK for 15% off btw
https://www.producthunt.com/products/folk-3
Product Hunt
folk: the AI in your texts that gets stuff done | Product Hunt
Folk is your AI friend that lives in any messaging app: iMessage, Telegram, Discord, and more. It joins meetings, plans your date, knows where you are, and gets smarter with every conversation. The longer you use it, the more it knows you. And now it's multiplayer…
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markets on anything.
Today, we're introducing Kalshi in Folk: the first way to trade on anything directly from iMessage.
Folk is an AI designed to connect people and handle your day-to-day tasks. Now, you can bet on the future without ever leaving the chat.
Text. Connect. Trade on anything.
www.getfolk.app/kalshi
Today, we're introducing Kalshi in Folk: the first way to trade on anything directly from iMessage.
Folk is an AI designed to connect people and handle your day-to-day tasks. Now, you can bet on the future without ever leaving the chat.
Text. Connect. Trade on anything.
www.getfolk.app/kalshi
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Introducing Folk Crew!
The first true multiplayer AI experience.
Starting today, your agent can securely team up with your friends' Folk to sync schedules, plan trips, and build shared memories that keep you connected.
Chat now: getfolk. app/crew
The first true multiplayer AI experience.
Starting today, your agent can securely team up with your friends' Folk to sync schedules, plan trips, and build shared memories that keep you connected.
Chat now: getfolk. app/crew
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my craziest marketing stunt to date:
we're giving away up to $500,000 to interns so they can order doordash with ai.
repost, comment, and bring 2 more friends to get more.
socials:
ig: @getfolk
x: @try_folk
www.getfolk.app/hungry
we're giving away up to $500,000 to interns so they can order doordash with ai.
repost, comment, and bring 2 more friends to get more.
socials:
ig: @getfolk
x: @try_folk
www.getfolk.app/hungry
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imagine never having to manage your finances manually.
introducing the most powerful AI CFO that lives in your text messages.
already saved users $15,000+ on subscriptions.
text it: getfolk.app
(we support >12,000 banks sry if urs isn't in the list)
introducing the most powerful AI CFO that lives in your text messages.
already saved users $15,000+ on subscriptions.
text it: getfolk.app
(we support >12,000 banks sry if urs isn't in the list)
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Personal AI, now available on WhatsApp
folk will help you:
- goon less
- save more money
- stay healthy & locked in
Text it: folk.com
folk will help you:
- goon less
- save more money
- stay healthy & locked in
Text it: folk.com
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