Wasi

My journey in startups began 10 years ago, and I've launched 18 startups, most of which failed. Briefly on why they failed:
1. Contract Online my first startup in 2015, which was supposed to be an online service for remote signing of contracts for any transactions between individuals. A kind of analogue of a secure transaction. For this startup, I even managed to attract a business angel who invested $16,500.

Reason for failure: I had two lawyers on my team who discovered in the process that the legal framework at the time could not provide reliable grounds for protecting our users in remote transactions. The contracts would not have been considered legally signed.
2. Natural Products In 2015-2018, I became very passionate about healthy eating, but in the process, I discovered that products in all chain stores are full of chemicals, and stores with truly natural products are inaccessible to the majority. Hence, the idea emerged to create my own online platform where you could order natural products directly from farmers at affordable prices.

Reason for failure: For several years, I tried to launch this project, even trained as a baker of natural bread and tried to create my own farm, but in the process, I found that few people are willing to pay for truly natural products, even if these products were only 20-30% more expensive than market prices, and not 2-3 times more, as in premium stores. Hence, the market was so small that all my attempts were doomed.

I've been in the design industry for 20+ years, now a product designer. I've helped shape and build some cool things. Some worked, some failed, and honestly the failures taught me more than the wins.

I'm amazed by the number of brilliant minds here and would love to connect with like-minded people, share ideas, and keep learning.

I'm a long-time developer and data engineer turned solo founder who's spent countless hours (and late nights!) wrestling with messy CSVs and trying to VLOOKUP my way through mismatched spreadsheets. I always felt that the most creative and insightful part of data analysis was locked behind a tedious 80% wall of manual data prep.

That frustration is what led me to build Datum Fuse AI.

My goal was to create an AI co-pilot that could intelligently handle the heavy lifting: things like automatically matching schemas between different files, suggesting transformations for messy join keys, and even enriching a dataset with external context like geolocation or holiday data.

We just launched our free public beta, and I'm incredibly excited (and a little nervous!) to finally have it out in the world. I'm here to learn from all of you, get feedback, and build something genuinely useful for anyone who's ever been frustrated by a data files.