At 15 I trained my first machine learning model and landed an internship at a U.S. company. At 16 I launched my first startup and promptly ran it into the ground. I learned more from that failure.
At 17 I launched Pleep, an AI sales rep that lets any business owner integrate AI into their sales workflow in under five minutes. Four months later I quit my job to work on it full time.
Why bother? I kept asking myself: Why isn t there an AI sales monopoly yet? My take: because most competitors deliver AI consultants that talk like robots and kill revenue. We focused on building a real rep that:
Doesn t ask you to prompt or pick an LLM you just tell us about your business and we do the rest.
Talks like your top salesperson, not a bot.
Books meetings and pushes data back into your CRM.
At 15 I trained my first machine learning model and landed an internship at a U.S. company. At 16 I launched my first startup and promptly ran it into the ground. I learned more from that failure.
At 17 I launched Pleep, an AI sales rep that lets any business owner integrate AI into their sales workflow in under five minutes. Four months later I quit my job to work on it full time.
Why bother? I kept asking myself: Why isn t there an AI sales monopoly yet? My take: because most competitors deliver AI consultants that talk like robots and kill revenue. We focused on building a real rep that:
Doesn t ask you to prompt or pick an LLM you just tell us about your business and we do the rest.
Talks like your top salesperson, not a bot.
Books meetings and pushes data back into your CRM.
Big update today! v0.2 is out and it brings some features we ve been itching to use ourselves. Here s what s new and how you might use it:
New stuff:
Public boards with shareable URLs show off your roadmap to the world. Perfect for indie devs who want to build in public or for agencies that want to share progress with clients without sending endless screenshots.
Community foundations the groundwork is in for voting, suggestions and comments. Imagine your users being able to upvote bugs or propose features directly on your board.
Redesigned sprint analytics now with better graphs and a single panel view. Want to see if your last sprint was more cruise control or crash landing ? The new analytics will give you a clearer picture.
Background customisation solid colours, gradients and meshes if you re feeling fancy. Minimalist mode for focus, or add some personality (yes, puppies are still an option).
Unified sprint panel no more clicking between two different places. Everything s in one spot now.
I've read a lot of conflicting views on this ... I'd love some advice.
We're about to relaunch our news platform ... which has been locked behind an "invite code" for a few months in ~beta state ... and we'd like to create some buzz!!..
Thank you to everyone who supported the launch! We ranked 6th yesterday.
For those just discovering us: GitArsenal solves that painful moment when you find a cool GitHub repo but spend hours fighting dependency hell instead of actually running the code. Our AI agent automatically handles the entire setup process, from analyzing the codebase to debugging errors to provisioning the right hardware. What features would make you actually use this?
VSCode/Cursor integration so it opens right in your IDE?
Team sharing so your whole company can run the same environments?
Docker export for deployment?
Something else entirely? Also Coming very soon: Full GitArsenal app with GUI, better logging, and way more control over the setup process.
Current status: CLI working, tested on 100+ repos from simple scripts to complex ML research. We're iterating fast based on real user feedback, and testing more on different categories of Repos.
According to Neil Patel's data about influencer marketing, newsletter/email is the most effective channel when it comes to ROI (attached infographics; source)
But not so many influencers own newsletters; in most cases, only social media channels.
As in previous posts, Datastripes now lets you explore the future of your data with the Scenario Node and a new Scenario Builder (see the image below).
Predicting yesterday s trends isn t enough for today s chaotic world. Now you can model not just what s likely, but what s possible. LSTM-powered forecasts, pre-defined scenarios, or fully custom shocks: your data, your rules.
As a new product in closed beta, we did surprisingly well in our debut on Product Hunt. I ve already written about our full launch-day tactics (see previous forum post), but some founders reached out asking:
What specifically worked for Product Hunt?
Here are the 5 biggest things I will repeat as we plan a future open beta launch. I hope it helps you too!
Everywhere I look, people say build in public to grow your product and audience. Sounds great except when you re starting from zero and literally nobody cares yet. From what I ve figured out, it s less about getting likes right now and more about leaving a trail, progress updates, decisions you ve made, even mistakes. Most of it will get ignored in the moment, but it builds a record that people can stumble on later. Also, public doesn t have to mean blasting it to Twitter. It could be small niche communities, Reddit threads like this, or a tiny newsletter. Basically, don t measure it by immediate engagement. Think of it as planting seeds for your future self. Anyone here actually started with no audience and made build in public work? What did you do?
In a time when big corporations are overpaying for their job offers just to steal the best talent from another big company, and in an era where everyone can build their own startup, there will always be room for people who prefer to join a team and work on something (in the future) big.
Whenever I m about to buy something (especially something more expensive), I can be easily influenced by recommendations from people I trust and know. That might be well-known accounts on X or suggestions from friends.
