Jai

Founder @geolayerHQ
Building the future of sub-surface intelligence

@iitbombay | AI Research Engineer

[Paul Mit @pmitu]

Please hear my advice:

- YC won't accept you (low chance)
- Your startup (probably) won't go viral
- VCs won't chase you
- TechCrunch won't write about you
- No one is going to save you (sorry)

Build your product as if NONE of those will happen.

That will be more helpful.

[Jai @jaip121]

Over the past few months i have come to a realisation that it’s fucking just in our mind , if you can learn to control it and learn to handle a series of events not working in your favour and still showing up and just not stopping then the reality will have no option but to bend to match your delusional

[Jai @jaip121]

Sub-Surface Intelligence @geolayerHQ

[Jai @jaip121]

Back at IIT, we built a 3D-printed piezoelectric glove capable of recognizing hand gestures. Still hard to believe we turned a rough sketch into a working prototype. Engineering never stops amazing me.

[Lloyd Armbrust @larmbrust]

I was in YC W10 when @paulg was my group partner (because there were only 4 @ycombinator partners).

Half the dinner table had CS degrees from MIT or Stanford. We argued about database indexing like it was politics. If you couldn't whiteboard a B-tree you had no business applying.

This week in S26 I watched a company vibe code an entire technical app with Claude in a week. They landed a $100k contract from a Fortune 50 company.

The technical bar that gatekept YC for a decade is gone.

The best founders I knew in 2010 were not the best engineers. They were customer obsessed.

Now the only thing YC is filtering for is whether you actually know something about the problem you're solving.

🪦 B-tree arguments.

[Jai @jaip121]

A winner is just a looser who did one more try

[Paul Graham @paulg]

An initial startup idea can't usually be both grand and precise. In practice they're usually either grand and vague or precise and small. Precise and small is better. You know who your initial users are, and you expand outward. With grand and vague you can't even get started.

[Jai @jaip121]

16 hr longest sitting
365 hr in total
509 commits

[Jai @jaip121]

Got my paxel report from @ycombinator

[Jai @jaip121]

Got my paxel report from @ycombinator

[Jai @jaip121]

As a startup of of your biggest moat is speed
First commit : feb 23
First demo call : Mar 16 (in office visit)
First paying customer : Jul 10

[Jai @jaip121]

We knew we have a solid product only thing wad need was visibility, we focused on our LinkedIn page growth, putting content out there and those resulted in getting us organic demo calls

[Jai @jaip121]

@boardyai AGI

[Jai @jaip121]

Visiting your customers office and spend time with them understanding their workflow is the single most important thing you can do

[Jai @jaip121]

What would you do if you knew you can’t fail?

[Jai @jaip121]

People need to understand AI writers better code than humans and its more bug proof

[jack @jack]

i’ve shifted from telling agents what to do, to asking them what to do, and pulling the best thread.

[Jai @jaip121]

Talent is a pursued interest

[Jai @jaip121]

How to be lucky ?
Just keep rolling the dice