Aqsa Choudry
@AqsaChoudryfrfr
Founder @ Agrinota 🌳 | Smart wildfire & plant health monitoring | Hardware + AI @fdotinc Off-Season | MET student | IoT builder + Software | Open to collabs
It's time for the guessing game to stop. Launching soon 🤍🌱 @fdotinc
not too sure about my cofounders. one’s focused on screen time. the other’s sleeping on me. and there’s only 3 weeks left of @fdotinc off season.
I flew all the way from Poland to San-Francisco to make robotics PhDs obsolete. I built a tool to implement SLAM in 2 lines. Don't spend months and half a mil building vision pipelines out. All you need is two commands to make your robot understand the environment it's in.…
Making a startup is like driving a car except you're a toddler with broken arms, the steering wheel is on fire, and you are being tailgated by an f1 racer
Wake up early. Chase something big. Go alone. Post it anyways. People will judge you either way.
early Agrinota prototype 🌱🔧 still experimental—needs waterproofing + polish—but the vision’s loud: a smart stake that helps trees, gardens, and green spaces speak up. moisture, light, fire risk—one day, all in one stick.
I am convinced sleep is the main competitor of every startup
the opposite of startups is being a sushi chef in Japan where youre only allowed to make rice for like the first 10 years
3 months ago, @im_roy_lee dropped out of Columbia to build Cluely. This weekend @AntonioSitongLi and I (students at Columbia) built Truely — the Anti-Cluely: An open-source tool that monitors your calls to see if you’re talking to a real person.
Agrinota is my love letter to nature— A smart urban forestry IoT system born from curiosity, trees, and quiet moments staring at leaves. What started as a figment is now real: a network of sensor stakes that track light, soil, humidity, temp... And yes, even smoke + flame—to…
Sometimes when I think things are hard, I often get slapped right back to understanding why I started them in the first place.