Who am I?
Hey! I am Apoorv, an 18-year-old developer and researcher. I was born in a small town called Varanasi but now I've shifted to Bangalore. I decided to skip college and focus on building cool stuff instead. I'm super into AI and love tinkering with backend systems. Right now I am now planning to move to San Francisco by the end of this year - pretty excited about that!What I love?
A bit about me is that I love watching football - I'm a huge Barça fan (PS: hope we win CL this year lol). I also love watching anime, especially seinen ones. My absolute favorites are Made in Abyss and Vinland Saga.As for my passions, I absolutely love LLMs, transformers and hardware. Back in school, I spent most of my time bunking classes and building stuff in the labs (I was pretty damn good at it too!). You can check out some of my hardware projects on my Github Profile.What have I done?
The first thing I built was an NLP-based COVID tracking bot for spreading awareness on Discord. It went viral at its peak—I handled 500K+ users, and the bot was also verified on Discord. (I was just 14, had to use my dad's ID.) I reverse-engineered Discord for hosting self-bots (got three IDs banned), then went on to learn Golang.I built a framework like Express but around 50x faster for personal use—got over 150 stars organically. As per my knowledge, around five companies use it right now, including major projects my institute maintains. Moved to crypto for the fun of it, came top 5 in my first hackathon (biggest multichain hackathon at the time), was a core member in Saturn. We received a $50K grant from Sandeep Nailwal (didn't work out well).Did hackathons in between, won around five premier hacks, wrote a couple of compilers here and there. In total, I've received over $65K in grants and prizes.This was my first phase of life.In my senior years, I did a lot of huge science fairs. I'm still the only kid to podium in both Youth Ideathon (Won in '22) and the CBSE Science Exhibition (Podium '22).When I was 17, I was offered the Nailwal Fellowship ($50K in total) but decided not to take it. Apart from this, I came 2nd in the biggest multichain hackathon (Unfold '23)—once again, the youngest winner.Later, I moved out of crypto and focused on AI and human interfaces as a whole. I built Connect AI—a Jarvis-like human-computer interface that could convert thoughts into action and perform tasks like a human. We went viral on Twitter—500K views in a day—top founders and VCs approaching for investment. Couldn't translate well as a business, so I moved away from it. (Some sneak peeks for later—I'm gonna reuse it at the end of the year for something even bigger.)I also wrote the AI pipeline and benchmarks for kids' AI at HeyPixa.ai—just for fun. Pixa is gonna be in UK stores by the end of the year.Then I built a Zapier-like service but for browser agents—in a week—for WTFund. Went till finals. Got rejected 'cause I was too early.Now, I've co-founded a research lab with a couple of my friends from IITs, and we're soon gonna release our first research!Plans and Future?
Currently conducting voice-to-voice research at my AI lab and building a prompt editor for in-house usage. Long-term, I have major plans for human-computer interfaces, particularly in hardware, scheduled for the end of the year—something that will revolutionize human interactions forever!If you're an engineer interested in working with the lab or on the HCI project, feel free to email or DM me.