In a world full of “web coding”, the young founder of Nail Ai stands unlike the old -fashioned, the old -fashioned, the old -fashioned.
Ironically because Yadgi and its co -founder, hEnri LangkmicBoth are only 18 years old and recently graduates from high school. Still his story, so far, is a classic.
The launch was launched in May, the Nail AI has produced more than 5 million downloads in eight months, Yadgi says. Better, he tells the Tech Crunch that the customer retaining rate is more than 30 % and this app has earned more than 2 million revenue last month.
Although the Tech Crunch could not verify its download and revenue claims, the Apple App Store has a Cal AI’s 4.8-star rating, which has 66,000 reviews, and downloads more than 1 million on Google, which has a 4.8-star rating on approximately 75,000 studies.
Imagine is simple: Take a picture of the meal you are eating, and login the app to the app to login calories and macros for you.
This is not a strange idea. For example, the calorie count is characterized by her food scan in a large dog, My Fitness Paul. Then there are apps like Snapkleuri, which were released in 2023 and was created by the founder of Google Lens.
The advantage of Nail Ai, perhaps, is that it was fully built during the era of large image models. It uses anthropic and open AI and leaf models to improve accuracy and is trained at open source food calories and image databases from sites like Gut Hub.
“We have found that different models are better with different foods,” Yadgi told Tech Crunch.
On the way, the founders coded the food packages through technical issues in recognizing or rotating the ingredients.
The result is an app that creators say it is 90 % accurate, which looks good enough for many diets.
Teen coders and a hacker house
Yadgi is also gaining some reputation for his initial success. But, unlike young coders growing up with AI co -pilots, they were specializing in middle school and in C#.
Yadgri made his first business in the ninth grade and Sold it To another game company, Frazinova, for 000 100,000, when he was 16 years old, he tells the Tech Crunch. “After the Quran, the schools gave Chrome Box to all their students, and surprisingly, the children tried to abuse the game at school,” he said.
The school responded by blocking the web access to these game sites. So he saw a “opportunity” to create a website that accessed all block games.
The best part? They called the website “fully science” so that the school would not block it.
With this sale, he and Langkmak saw Y Combanes videos and found a new ideology socially socially with a coder crowd on X. He met Black Anderson on X, who also became a co -founder of a call AI. Anderson, who was now 24 -year -old Received notice from the status of a young user app coderAlso, Creating GPT Dating Advice Apps like Risgot and Amex.
He smiled and said, “Yadgiri thought of Yadgiri and Langmak after starting hitting the gym to gain weight and” impressed girls “.
Then he chose another clutch: He moved to San Francisco to stay in a hacker house while building his prototype.
But there, the son of two lawyers, Yadgi learned a contradictory lesson. He discovered that he wanted to go to college and did not want to be a classic silicon valley dropout type.
He said about the experience, “Twenty -four grinding, sleeping on the floor, actually one of the nights, and it was a very fun time, and he taught me a lot.”
But he looked around. “We were surrounded by people who were at the end of the 20s or 30th all day. And I felt that if I did not go to college, I would be like life.
Although he has not yet decided which university he will attend, he and Langkmak are still enjoying running their company. It now includes another co -founder, Jack Castilo, 28, which includes COO and running influence marketing as well as eight full -time employees between developers, a designer, and social media managers.
