Daniel Dhawan
Founder, design engineer in London
About
• Generalist, tech founder, full-stack design engineer, physics major
• 26yo, 3x founder, best: 300K$ revenue
• I ❤️ consumer, AI & sometimes crypto
Work Experience
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Co-founded & designed the best AI music covers mobile app by AI quality
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Built a short-video organic marketing team: 15M views in Reels & TikTok in 3 months
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Tech stack: Figma, React Native, next.js, trpc, Vercel, Python, Modal
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Bootstrapped to 300K$ in revenue
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Designed Artgene Studio, the first SaaS for generative artists on Ethereum & L2s
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Designed Artgene p5.js art Code Editor
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Launched Buildship, the first cheapest & simplest no-code NFT drop SaaS studio in 2021
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Received grants from zkSync, Polygon, NEAR
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Invited to YCombinator interview
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Tech stack: Figma, next.js, React, Typescript, wagmi/viem, Vercel, serverless node, Supabase
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Built Instagram feed filtering iOS & Android app that enabled the company to raise 1M$ in seed funding
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Stack: Expo (React Native), serverless node & Firebase
emovi – find movies by vibe with AI 🤔 discover hidden gems you've never seen on your streaming services
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Grew from 0 to 200K users with 0$ ads budget
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#2 App Store 2019 in Eastern Europe (Ukraine, Belarus, Russia)
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Raised pre-seed in Russia as a 21y.o. student & dropped out 6 mos before graduation
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Built an amazing product as a team of 1-3 people:
👉 45% PMF score, 1000+ hardcore fans
👉 Designed & launched Android, iOS, web app & a Chrome extension for tracking watched history
👉 Built an AI movie genome search for a movie & show library that's 10x bigger than Netflix. Used transformer models (early LLMs) for personal recommendations in 2019.
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Personal tech stack: Figma, Kotlin, Python, Django, NLP, pytorch, PostgreSQL, next.js, Chrome extensions, AWS & DigitalOcean
Projects
Co-founder of deYC, a curated mastermind group of 20 founders from Eastern Europe.
Our members have
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Mastermind calls every week for 1.5+ years & became close friends
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Built crypto, consumer & AI businesses, some with 12M$ annual revenue & 6M+ users
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Accepted into best accelerators & raised from best VC funds: 2x YC, 2x Alliance, 1x 1confirmation, 1x Naval, 1x DragonFly
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Failed, started again & never gave up
Side Projects
Helped the founder grow his MRR +105% in 5 weeks
Early "Raycast AI + Perplexity" Chrome extension. #2 on ProductHunt, January 2023, 4000 weekly users.
Know everything about your crypto product using human language. Use AI to write Dune SQL queries for you.
Free-to-play onchain Pokemon OG battle game (Gameboy style) + VR version.
Forked from a fan Pokemon battle game with 100K DAU.
Built an Android app for MUBR, a widget to see what friends are listening on Spotify now (3M+ users in the US)
Awards
Silver
Silver
Education
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Entered the hardest department of MIPT ("the MIT of Russia"): #1 Physics in post-soviet countries, #50 world (2022)
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Excellent score at finals
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Coached & taught 30 high school students to enter best universities & get state funding
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Took a gap year, built an app that went viral with 0 work experience & money
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Raised seed round & dropped out 6 months before graduation
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#8 high school
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298/300 "SAT score"
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won 1 physics & 2 maths olympiads