Bagel Fund

$100-500 microgrants for ambitious young builders

[Bagel Fund @bagelfund]

Last quarter, we gave $5.7k in grants to ambitious young builders.

From low-cost bio printers to small planes that fly forever, they've been absolutely crushing it.

Meet our grantees below 👇

[Bagel Fund @bagelfund]

@kushwah_aaryan "funmaxx, love your company, build something people love and you’ll win"

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[Aaryan Kushwah @kushwah_aaryan]

we were one of the three companies that did the live pitch and got a check on stage.

here’s some things that I learnt at yc that helped me get a check live on stage!

- investors are humans, don’t be a jester have fun and converse with them

- it’s your company! you built it, nobody in the world should be more passionate than you talking about it, if you’re building a company you don’t love, nobody will work with you, invest in you or use you

- love your customers. forget cac, ltv, arpu abcdef whatever. tell a story about a customer, why does someone use you, why do they love you?

funmaxx, love your company, build something people love and you’ll win

[Bagel Fund @bagelfund]

@dotmariusz @AnaArsonist 🥯🥯🤤

[Bagel Fund @bagelfund]

@AnaArsonist 😊❤️

[ana howard @AnaArsonist]

donating to @bagelfund to fund projects with microgrants to help people get things off the ground.

if you’re looking for a good place to put some money, this is it.

[Miguel Piedrafita ✨ @m1guelpf]

been posting more on insta lately (same username if u wanna follow btw)

was missing some analytics for my content there. luckily you can just build things

[J.P. @evansjohnpaul]

https://t.co/SSjdNTILid

[Dexter @dexbarahona]

happy to share I'm joining @netbackyard as a Member of Technical Staff 🌱

compute spend is messy and complex, yet somehow still tracked in spreadsheets - so we're building the financial layer of the compute economy.

now I'm headed to SF! excited to be back :)

[ari dutilh @aridutilh]

My general advice to people still in school:

build a side project that excites you
post about it
do it again and again ♻️

[ana howard @AnaArsonist]

stoked to share that i’m joining @aave as a design engineer!

aave has been part of my web3 journey since day one, so this feels full pretty circle. super excited to bring some more whimsy to a space that deserves it.

[cody @devlooskie]

lil personal news 🥳

i've joined https://t.co/lLm1xhZgGM to help build out the new era of networking infrastructure!

[ari dutilh @aridutilh]

we're investing $100,000 in solo founders building something that feels like their calling.

paying customers are great but not required if moonshot.

dm me if this is you – let's work together.

[Miguel Piedrafita ✨ @m1guelpf]

i'm working on an app that uses the accelerometer in your phone to measure how hard you can throw it against the ground and compete with others

this video is part of an elaborate campaign to convince you to download the app & get to the top of the leaderboard

please enjoy

[alistair @alistaiir]

We're launching the Monitor tool in today's Claude Code release.

Claude spawns a background process and each stdout line streams into the conversation, without blocking the thread.

e.g. "Use the monitor tool and `kubectl logs -f | grep ..` to listen for errors, make a pr to fix any crashes"

This is both more reliable and token efficient than polling within the agent loop.

[weisser @julianweisser]

$9M ARR. No VC. Solo founder.

Solo Founders Podcast ep 6 is live with @yasser_elsaid_ of Chatbase.

We talk about:
00:03 Discovering RAG before ChatGPT existed
11:44 First Stripe payment 30 minutes after launch
14:37 "Free solo" founding, beyond indie hacking
27:39 Why bootstrapping changes the definition of success
35:37 The "benevolent dictatorship" of solo founding
44:43 Scaling bootstrapped, profitability from day one
54:14 The B2B playbook: pricing, content, cold outbound
1:08:20 Bear and bull case for solo founding

[weisser @julianweisser]

https://t.co/Brrg3QdRCO

[Bagel Fund @bagelfund]

@chloe_h_nguyen @Tristan_J_Hall @socraticainfo ❤️

[Chloe Nguyen ⁂ @chloe_h_nguyen]

I (w/@Tristan_J_Hall) built a <$900 treadmill that lets you walk in any direction in VR. The closest alternatives with similar functionality cost $40,000. Ours works and it's kind of awesome??

About 1.5 weeks ago, we demoed it @socraticainfo's Symposium! Here's the full story of how it came to be…

[Tristan Hall @Tristan_J_Hall]

8 months of iteration shown in 8 min

@chloe_h_nguyen and I demoed our low-cost, open source omnidirectional treadmill on stage to 2000+ people at @socraticainfo Symposium 2026!

To everyone in the audience and all who came by our booth to test it out - I hope we managed to spark your imagination

A huge thank you to the Socratica Team; our supporters, @mergedotclub, @aridutilh, @1517fund, @William_Blake, @bagelfund, @AlexaKayman, @0xTraderJoes, @danielnieto_ , @robjama; and everyone else who helped along the way (@rishiosaur, @nef_isa )