Daniel Dhawan

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

2023 — Now
London
  • Co-founded & designed the best AI music covers mobile app by AI quality

  • Built a short-video organic marketing team: 15M views in Reels & TikTok in 3 months

  • Tech stack: Figma, React Native, next.js, trpc, Vercel, Python, Modal

2021 — 2023
United States, Remote
  • Bootstrapped to 300K$ in revenue

  • Designed Artgene Studio, the first SaaS for generative artists on Ethereum & L2s

  • Designed Artgene p5.js art Code Editor

  • Launched Buildship, the first cheapest & simplest no-code NFT drop SaaS studio in 2021

  • Received grants from zkSync, Polygon, NEAR

  • Invited to YCombinator interview

  • Tech stack: Figma, next.js, React, Typescript, wagmi/viem, Vercel, serverless node, Supabase

2021 — 2021
Full-stack engineer (Employee #1) at The OG App
United States, Remote
  • Built Instagram feed filtering iOS & Android app that enabled the company to raise 1M$ in seed funding

  • Stack: Expo (React Native), serverless node & Firebase

2019 — 2021
Moscow

emovi – find movies by vibe with AI 🤔 discover hidden gems you've never seen on your streaming services

  • Grew from 0 to 200K users with 0$ ads budget

  • #2 App Store 2019 in Eastern Europe (Ukraine, Belarus, Russia)

  • Raised pre-seed in Russia as a 21y.o. student & dropped out 6 mos before graduation

  • 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.

  • Personal tech stack: Figma, Kotlin, Python, Django, NLP, pytorch, PostgreSQL, next.js, Chrome extensions, AWS & DigitalOcean

Projects

Ongoing
Co-founder, deYC

Co-founder of deYC, a curated mastermind group of 20 founders from Eastern Europe.

Our members have

  • Mastermind calls every week for 1.5+ years & became close friends

  • Built crypto, consumer & AI businesses, some with 12M$ annual revenue & 6M+ users

  • Accepted into best accelerators & raised from best VC funds: 2x YC, 2x Alliance, 1x 1confirmation, 1x Naval, 1x DragonFly

  • Failed, started again & never gave up

Side Projects

2024

Helped the founder grow his MRR +105% in 5 weeks

2023
CmdJ

Early "Raycast AI + Perplexity" Chrome extension. #2 on ProductHunt, January 2023, 4000 weekly users.

Link on PH

2022

Know everything about your crypto product using human language. Use AI to write Dune SQL queries for you.

Won 3 nominations at ETH San Francisco hackathon

2022

Free-to-play onchain Pokemon OG battle game (Gameboy style) + VR version.

Forked from a fan Pokemon battle game with 100K DAU.

Won 1 nomination at ETH Global hackathon
Pitch deck

2022
Mubr

Built an Android app for MUBR, a widget to see what friends are listening on Spotify now (3M+ users in the US)

Awards

2023
UK Global Talent from Tech Nation
2015
MIPT Math olympiad

Silver

2015
MIPT Physics olympiad

Silver

Education

2015 — 2020
Bachelor of mathematical physics at MIPT
Moscow
  • Entered the hardest department of MIPT ("the MIT of Russia"): #1 Physics in post-soviet countries, #50 world (2022)

  • Excellent score at finals

  • Coached & taught 30 high school students to enter best universities & get state funding

  • Took a gap year, built an app that went viral with 0 work experience & money

  • Raised seed round & dropped out 6 months before graduation

2013 — 2015
High school at BMTSU Lyceum
Moscow
  • #8 high school

  • 298/300 "SAT score"

  • won 1 physics & 2 maths olympiads

Contact

Telegram