Saketh

17yo founder building Deadlink. I like math, code, AI, drones, and systems that keep working when things break.

[Saketh @hey_saketh]

got a @sologrants for Deadlink 🚁

@getdeadlink lets one person run a whole team of drones on a search at once. the hard part is when one drops mid-mission, so i built it to catch that, hand the drone's area to another one, and finish the search with a record of what got covered.

works in simulation. this grant puts it on real hardware, where motors actually fail and gps actually drifts.

no equity, no strings. thank you @sologrants @mcmgoodall @julianweisser @aridutilh for betting on it.

next: one real fleet, one dropped drone, and the search still finishes!

[Saketh @hey_saketh]

im 17 and i moved to sf alone to fix the thing that killed my best friend.

two years ago he died in a building collapse in india. rescue took three days to search the rubble. drones were there, but every drone needed its own pilot and nobody had one picture of what was searched. he was alive under there for part of it.

so i built software where one person runs an entire robot fleet. if a machine dies mid job, the nearest one picks up its unfinished work. everything logged and replayable so you can prove what got done instead of guessing.

turns out every robot fleet hits this wall. my first paid pilot is a mining robotics company.

[Shreyas Bhardwaj ☀️ @shreyasbhardwj]

my grandma got alzheimers. we didnt realize it at first, we just thought she was getting forgetful

turns out the disease starts a decade before first symptoms. years where we could actually do something about it

anyway thats what im working on now. moved to sf a few weeks ago to build it 😄

[Saketh @hey_saketh]

@urjr1 Ctrl-C and then boot up claude again. that fixes it

[Saketh @hey_saketh]

@KayaHickin Ctrl-C and then boot up claude again. that fixes it

[Saketh @hey_saketh]

@KayaHickin what are the devs there doing bro

[Saketh @hey_saketh]

@urjr1 ikr 😭

[Saketh @hey_saketh]

@himanshurp_ Big w

[Saketh @hey_saketh]

@ayushpx Yoooooooo

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[Saketh @hey_saketh]

@KollaikalRupesh @treenalabs @camden_hulse @ruomengsyn finally android!

[Solo Founders @solofounders]

5k on YouTube 🥳

[Saketh @hey_saketh]

@camden_hulse lmao

[Saketh @hey_saketh]

@Massimokris @sologrants @getdeadlink appreciate you brother

[Saketh @hey_saketh]

got a @sologrants for Deadlink 🚁

@getdeadlink lets one person run a whole team of drones on a search at once. the hard part is when one drops mid-mission, so i built it to catch that, hand the drone's area to another one, and finish the search with a record of what got covered.

works in simulation. this grant puts it on real hardware, where motors actually fail and gps actually drifts.

no equity, no strings. thank you @sologrants @mcmgoodall @julianweisser @aridutilh for betting on it.

next: one real fleet, one dropped drone, and the search still finishes!

[Saketh @hey_saketh]

@julianweisser @sologrants @getdeadlink appreciate you Julian 🙏 time to go earn it! :)

[Saketh @hey_saketh]

@aridutilh @sologrants @getdeadlink appreciate you Ari 🙏 time to go prove it

[Saketh @hey_saketh]

@adisingh agree

[Saketh @hey_saketh]

watched a bunch of founders pitch back-to-back last week and the polished ones started blending together really fast

the people i remembered could just explain what was broken and what they had actually done about it

i probably need to make my own pitch less impressive and more true

[Saketh @hey_saketh]

best advice i got last week:

stop trying to solve month three.
close week one.

so that is the sprint now:

get @getdeadlink into one real operating context with one real team.

a signed pilot solves more than any meeting ever will.

[Zachary @ZacharyTouon]

Cut your agent cost by 63% in one prompt.