Arlan
@arlanrakh
CEO at @nozomioai (YC S25) | hs junior dropout | forbes 30u30 | prev. stanford research at 16 | anime, cooking, running — e/acc
My post was deleted, so here’s the story of how I ended up in SF and YC S25 as a solo founder from Kazakhstan who dropped out of high school (thread):
nia will conquer SF, starting with the @ycombinator office. try it @ trynia dot ai
"Being a solo founder must be extremely tough, especially given your age.” I hear that at least three times a day from other founders and sometimes from investors. It’s a completely valid concern. Being solo is obviously tough and sometimes overwhelming. But thinking on the…
the new standard for design benchmarks congrats!
Three weeks ago, we started building an AI game engine. But some models kept making things look... sloppy. So we turned finding the best one into a game. In three weeks, that game grew to 35K+ users across 135 countries. Introducing @designarena_ai, the fastest-growing…
banging a gong whenever I release a new feature should I get XXL version?
congrats @MahyadGhassemi 🫡🫡
Okibi (@okibi_ai) is an agent that builds agents – a web app that lets you effortlessly create automations and AI agents using simple, everyday language. Think Lovable, but for agents. Congrats on the launch, @MahyadGhassemi & @thesauravmitra! ycombinator.com/launches/O1I-o…
i showed up to the founders' house at 12 AM to onboard them the result? new friends and a paying customer
YC is one of the few places in the world where your partners will drive you to pivot towards product market fit very consistently
Underreported lore about Scale AI is that Alex and Lucy started out building a ClassPass for clubbing, a subscription service for local clubs.
so happy to see that my previous post has already made an impact. also, I’m not saying that all programs should be free but the world needs more initiatives that ease the burden of costs like flights and actually provide real value to young founders.
Chasing dreams should be free. I just got invited to be a keynote speaker for a program in SF, specifically for high school students from Kazakhstan who want to start companies one day. I asked, “Are you covering costs for these high schoolers who have to travel halfway across…
Chasing dreams should be free. I just got invited to be a keynote speaker for a program in SF, specifically for high school students from Kazakhstan who want to start companies one day. I asked, “Are you covering costs for these high schoolers who have to travel halfway across…
Today we launched our new platform: Clado Atlas. Atlas represents a new age of people search engine—one that understands intent, not just keywords. It works by combining small language models trained to interpret your query semantically, retrieve a precise, complete set of…
