Started building
@StimulerApp
at 20 from my IIT BHU hostel - currently over 1.5Mn users and won Best AI App of India 2023 |
I love consuming all sports &cinema
#Hiring
for a 6 months founder's office intern ((with chances of PPO) to work directly with me at
@StimulerApp
We are Tier-1 VC Backed, have 600K+ users in our 1st year and recently won Best AI App of the Year 2023
If you are someone (know someone) who is a high-achiever in
The campus placements season for my alma matter and across IITs (and other colleges) has been horrific so far.. So many amazing folks with great profiles are left unplaced or have just settled for whatever they got
Sharing some suggestions I shared with our junior group - may
@mohakmangal
Hi Mohak, I am from an IIT & have firsthand been involved in the placement system as well
Stop jumping on misinformation please...
Noone can lock students lmao, students chose their preferred companies for interview & are still mostly able to give 2-3 interviews in same slot🤷♂️
Since India for the world is getting some steam on Twitter, here is
@StimulerApp
's global Paying User map -
Yupp, Atleast 1 Paying user from 137 different countries!!
We've the chance to write a crazy GLOBAL consumer AI story here & reallyyy excited for what's ahead :)
Finally got the incorporation done and ...Yes, we are starting in INDIA!!!
Special Thanks to
@Durgesh_Chavda_
&
@MaitriThakkar9
for their super smooth assistance in entire process! Specially Recommended If you're starting for the very 1st time!
Time to take the ship 🚢 forward!
@katyayani13
@fiitjee
I have respect for Fiitjee due to their teachers but This is horrible advertising!
Don't know how this was approved in the first place that too, on the first page of a national newspaper 🤦🏻
@kunalb11
Well, you're already an investor in us :)
@StimulerApp
uses audio AI to help the global ESL population in English conversational skills! More than a million happy users from all around the world.
Won the
@GooglePlay
Best AI App 2023!
@GooglePlay
Someone gave 57 fake 1* reviews yesterday bringing our rating from 4.6 to 2.2..
Worst of all - they are citing ads 🤦
Newsflash - There has never been any ads of the platform.. ZERO
Pretty sure some insecure competitor
Please RT so that it reaches GooglePlay
🎉 𝗟𝗶𝗳𝗲 𝗨𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲 : After 2 years of interning, freelancing and learning, Finally Working on our own startup w/ awesome peeps 🎉
The New year goal is simple: Help 1000s of people to become a better communicator & a better version of themselves via
@TeamStimuler
EXCITED❤️
How would it feel to win the Best App of 2023 (Users Choice) by
@GooglePlay
in our first ever year?
Well, we wanna find that out :)
We are top 10 and want to fight for the top spot, please vote for
@StimulerApp
(Just 1 click), Thx❤️
#GooglePlayBestOf
Big Update!!
Our Android App is now live (finally...)
If you want to become a better & more confident English Speaker, start your Speaking Practice TODAY!
IT JUST TAKES 60 SECONDS FOR A PRACTICE & IT'S FREE :
ps : feedback vv appreciated :)
MVP Live on Playstore ✅
50+ Downloads ✅
Users from 10+ countries ✅
I know It's very very early but first users for your startup are always so special 🎉
Time to Iterate, Ship and Grow 🚀🚀
Yesterday we celebrated our 2nd birthday at
@StimulerApp
Oh, and Yes - Our 1st Million Installs too :)
The toughest, yet most fun and rewarding two years of my life so far - Super privileged to get this opportunity (that too, with friends) and cant wait for the coming years❤️
IN DEFENCE OF
#SharkTankIndia
: A THREAD
I have seen a lot of hate towards the new startup show on Twitter and while that's not unreasonable, I do think that's highly exaggerated! Here's a short thread containing my views on why
@sharktankindia
is doing a great work: ⬇️
Anddd.. WE ARE VC FUNDED 🎉🥳
Announcing our 1st fundraise by the amazing folks at
@gradcapital
! Prateek & Abhishek has been friends first and investors later & we are super excited for how we kill it together :)
Let's define the future of communication together 💫
#Hiring
for 6 months AI Intern to join
@StimulerApp
in BLR starting Dec!
We have a small rockstar AI team led by
@ankit_0513
, have raised from Tier-1 silicon valley VCs & have grown to over 500K users in the last 10 months!
Apply via link in comment
Please RT for reach!
140 Countries & Counting 🚀😯
All with a ZERO Marketing Spend & <4 months of launch
The users of
@StimulerApp
keep surprising us everyday & we can't love it any more❤️
Building from 🇮🇳 for the 🌍 & we're living every single moment of it!
#buildinpublic
@caleb_friesen2
Idk what the Benjamin Franklin effect is but definitely a red flag for me if someone's not respecting your time
People end up remembering these little things & becomes a part of the social narrative surrounding you in the medium to long run
@manas_saloi
Not only old people, but truth is 99% of adult population also doesn't understand and most importantly doesn't care about the jargon
And that's the reason show wants to cater for problem solving and business as a concept
Twitter/X - do your thing please :p
#Hiring
for a Founding Marketing Lead (our 1st ever marketing hire, based out of Bangalore) to work directly with me at
@StimulerApp
!!
Stimuler is Lightspeed backed & the winner of Google Play's best with AI 2023! We recently crossed 1Mn
Over the last two years, I have given 500+ speeches as a debater, adjudicator, presenter, and start-up founder.
Here are the 5 things that I learned which in my opinion makes what we speak persuasive & compelling👇
I always wanted to attend the ASU+GSV summit and now I have a bigger reason
We will be pitching on THE MAIN STAGE👀
They just announced GSV Cup 50,the list of top 50 Pre-SeriesA edtech startups globally and
@StimulerApp
has made the list❤️
San Diego, 13-17Apr! Here we come ✈️
🎉 Announcing the GSV Cup 50 — the most innovative digital learning and workforce skills startups from around the world!
This year’s GSV Cup is presented by
@googlecloud
and
@gsvventures
, and supported by
@holoniq
.
Just checked the app analytics and
@TeamStimuler
is now being used by users from 41 COUNTRIES to get better at English Speaking
Yess, 41 🤯
WOWW!! Thank You so much everyone for the support ❤️
Onwards and Upwards🚀🚀
#buildinpublic
A crazy-happening 1st half of 2024 for all of us at
@StimulerApp
. Key highlights below
Tldr:
🚀 8X ARR growth, 6x paying user growth
1️⃣ Got ranked 🥇 on Appstore in Indonesia
🇲🇽 Initial footprint in Spanish Speaking LATAM
📈 20%+ MOM User-growth
👬 2 new key hires
Details👇
Made it to this coveted list by
@EconomicTimes
!! (0.002% of the participant pool)❤️
Such an amazing competition this - Highly highly recommended for all the UGs in my network - Got a chance of 1-1 interaction with
@shankmurali
in the final round too
Back to building :)
200+ Downloads ✅
13+ Countries ✅
Theme Based Practice in Progress 🤞
Early days but mini milestones are always exciting 🚀
ps: If you would like to have a chat on how Stimuler can help you or someone you know in English Speaking, You are Always welcome!
#buildinpublic
Wrote on medium after a long time - tried to summarize the crazy year we had in 2023 at
@StimulerApp
, what we learnt and what's next
To summarize- we graduated, grew a lot, raised money, learned a ton and had a LOT OF FUN!
By far the best book I have read so far - literally been one of my mental models for the last year for decisions at Stimuler
Thanks
@bhorowitz
for this gem:)
Being first-timer founders and that too student, the idea of raising funds was scary, to be honest, especially in legal terms.
Thanks,
@Durgesh_Chavda_
, for handling it all so smoothly! We were able to focus on the business while he managed everything else.
Highly recommended!!
Hey friends,
We
@StimulerApp
got selected for a YC interview on 11th 🚀🚀 ..it's our first ever so huge excitement but also a Little nervous, let's see how this goes ✌️
On this note, we want feedback, so if any YC alum is willing to help out, pleaseee let us know ❤️
One of the really helpful folks in the ecosystem - been following him from my Quora days :)
Took a mock interview for our YC prep & provided useful feedback when we reached out as total strangers
All the best for your next leg
@aviralbhat
!
Excited to share that I am going to be exploring what to do next for the coming decade.
Along the way in my brief journey in the Indian VC ecosystem, I had the chance to work with the Venture Highway team.
I'm immensely grateful to Neeraj for providing me with this platform to
After 1 month, 600+ applications & 20+ interviews - Finally giving our first ever full-time offer at
@StimulerApp
Tech hiring is a literal Crazy Ride (even in 2023 :p)!
India (or Asia for that matter) is nowhere currently in the global GenAI x education landscape currently - US totally leading the way. Hurts a lot
Want to change this badly, and that too super quick
Day 0 currently✌🏻
Throwback to this time last month when we had an amazing interaction with
@bhash
and Ravi from Ola following a tour of their Future Factory
Crazy how much can you learn in just a single day!
Will be super grateful to Bhavish, Ravi & the entire Ola team for this experience ❤️
We just got featured! Thanks Keerthana & The Entrackr Team for covering our story
Let's continue the mission to bring a personal communication coach to Every Global Citizen!!
Building from 🇮🇳 for the 🌎 and we are loving every moment of it!!
Hi All, need some help--
#hiring
for our 2nd FT employee at
@StimulerApp
today- Looking for a top Founding Engineer (ML-Ops, 2-4 YOE) to build & deploy state-of-the-art AI models for English speech improvement, directly alongside the founders
We are backed by Lightspeed, won
Playtime Singapore was a BLAST❤️
--1st time ever out of India✅
--Awarded BEST AI App by
@Google
(only AI winner in an event where GenAI was again THE attraction :p)✅
--Met some super cool folks from Google + Top apps in 8 Countries✅
Super excited to partner w/
@GooglePlay
:)
Twitter (or X :p), do your magic!
We are hiring a founding Flutter engineer at Stimuler to join us founders in Bengaluru
If you want to be a part of a super small team (<10 including interns) building one of the first global consumer products right from India, read along 👇
Some sessions just make you a lot richer in terms of your learnings, especially if it's from someone who has been through the grind themselves
Today's by
@warikoo
via the amazing folks at
@gradcapital
was one such:
A short 3 pointer 🧵on the key takeaways 👇
The World's Greatest storytellers have 1 Thing in common - They all modulate their voices pretty well.
Today, let's understand The Power of 𝐕𝐨𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 in Storytelling: The WHAT, The WHY, and the HOW?
All in 10 Tweets- Let's begin🧵
104 Countries & Counting ✌️🌍
We always had ambitions of a global product with
@StimulerApp
and we are glad to share that less than 2 months from launch, we have atleast 1 learner from 100+ countries 😯🤩
Still Day 0 but exciting journey ahead!
Thanks all :)
#buildinpublic
#internship
#hiring
#design
Want to design for the 𝐁𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐀𝐈 𝐀𝐩𝐩 𝐢𝐧 𝐈𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐚 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟑? Want to craft experiences that will have 500K users from over 200 countries go "Wow"?
Well, here is your chance :)
For the first time in over an year, we are opening up a position
How did we get to our 1st Million Installs on
@StimulerApp
?
I learned from a lot of people, so Today, I penned down our journey - the channels, strategies, experiments, EVERYTHING!
I hope it can help some of you :)
Looking for top 1% AI Interns at
@StimulerApp
- you'll work directly with Ankit and work with the best AI App of India on SOTA Gen-AI & audio AI Models
Write a short pitch to ankit
@stimuler
.tech on
• why you are a fit
• best work you have done with AI
Tag the best
Please help amplify this message by IIT BHU Student Parliament
@IITBHU_Varanasi
needs serious security reforms and incidents like this must never happen again..
Excited to be a speaker in the new
#Twitterspace
with
@schfess
channel
Indonesia has a wonderful community of English Learners & super glad to share my experiences with them
Do Tune in :)
Saturday, 22nd October | 5:30 PM IST
Unlock Your English Speaking Skill✨
Siapa yang mau bisa bahasa inggris biar ditanya pakai bahasa inggris jawabnya bukan "gak bisa bahasa enggres" 😎
Yuk join space schfess x founder stimuler app dari India, kita bahas ini 👍🏻
Set reminder and share ya!
So much love for Stimuler in Indonesia - it's a geo we started with on Day 0 and is the place I am most excited for even today!
Had some reshuffling over the week, but still at 🥇 on IOS. Playstore - we still have some work pending but we WILL get to the top soon ✌️
🇮🇩 FTW!
Masalah terbesar latihan speaking sama temen biasanya kalian bingung mau ngomongin apa, ujungnya cuma latihan basic conversation kayak "how are you?" "have you eaten" dll HAHAHA
BUT GUESS WHAT I HAVE HERE 😜😜😜
My final year of college starts in a couple of days & it's such a weird feeling.
Conflicting priorities, the fear of missing out, offline classes for 1st time in 2.5 years, physical gatherings - oh, there's so much..
Update : We touched 1000 members at the Stimuler learning community on Facebook 🎉
The first 1k is always special and while It might look small, we followed a path and this means a lot to us!
A short 🧵on my learnings ⬇️
#buildinpublic
A note on How I let ChatGPT micro-manage my first ever International Trip minute-by-minute and how did it turn out🗒️⬇️
So, after a lot of internal deliberation, I had decided to actually attend
@Google
Playtime conference in Singapore on 12th of Dec 2023
This conference meant a
We touched 200 Paid Users on
@StimulerApp
some time back and this 0➡200 journey is the best MBA I will ever do :)
Here are the Top 5 lessons that we have learnt so far I'd love to share -
This brought back some old memories..
Have been to Kota (and IIT) and the guilt culture there for JEE Aspirants is super toxic & heavily encourages unhealthy food & sleeping habits in order to get a few extra marks in the next unit test
A short note on those days 👇
HOT TAKE: Don't encourage Indian students to surrender to SHITTY unhealthy habits.
I don't understand the nuance behind celebrating such type of behaviour.
Simply glorifying the toxic culture.
Students who appeared in JEE Advanced have not had enough? That they need another
Hi Twitter,
I am looking to talk to people working as independent Jobs Consultant or for Recruiting/Placement Agencies in India
If you are someone who fits this description or can connect me to someone, please DM or reply.
Would really appreciate it
RT To Amplify please!
Don't wanna sound disrespectful here really but I have never been prouder to be in India and build from Here
You can always nitpick a couple of laws and make your point, but in the broader picture, India is more lucrative & has a better social life
Each to their own i guess :)
The best thing that you can do for yourself and for your future generations is leave India.
Ideal time to do it is when you are young and unmarried. It gets harder with age.
Hi Twitter, need some help
We are looking for a payment gateway to integrate for international payments which allows people in other countries (PH or Malaysia) to pay via their local wallets
Any recommendations or suggestions? Or please tag sm who can help
Am attending the
@asugsvsummit
in San Diego over the next 3 days -- Me & Ankit are representing
@StimulerApp
at GSV 50 (top 50 pre-seriesA edtech startups globally)
Gonna spend a few days in SF post that!
The energy here looks super cool - lets see how this goes :)
@StimulerApp
is the champion of Together 2023 by
@startupindia
& Schulich School, Canada
All this amidst some crazy growth that we are witnessing on our platform!
Exciting days ahead :)
When 100+ people are eagerly waiting for your app to solve their problem
AND
Playstore decides it's gonna take all the lifetime to review an update..
Some things are just too predictable!
So, how did our Y Combinator Interviews go?
We interviewed for YC last month and while we didn't make it, we had a ton of learnings!
Tried documenting the journey here , do give it a read :)
#yc
#startups
Day 2 of
#100DaysOfNoCode
As I said earlier, Today was Building Day.
I built a digital journal to track my learning journey using
@airtable
and
@Carrd
! This journey has just started, and its already too much fun.
Check it out below 👇
More below :
One of the biggest lessons I have learnt while building an early stage tech startup
Tech never sells, a use-case built around it does and that's something only your potential customers can tell you.
So, before going all in for tech, the use-case must be figured out!
So, finally up in Bangalore for the next phase of Stimuler!
Also, Starting our Bangalore flat hunt for a 3/4bhk in any of HSR/BTM/Kormangala
Please share any leads if possible
@BangaloreRoomi
@twitrbnb
@fmrbangalore
Also, please RT for reach & wish us luck xD!
400+ Applications for our Product design internship and have received apps from some stellar folks✨
Onto the evaluation phase now ⏭️
Hiring every single person at the super-early stage is such an tedious, yet rewarding process... And you learn so much from each one!
Ranting about parents has become so mainstream here & I absolutely hate this..
For someone who has sacrificed so much, the least you can do is try &understand them. They are also humans, and care much more about you than the random Twitter likes you are seeking validation from🤷🏻
If you are in India, disappoint parents early and be free.
Truth is, they want to be disappointed and play sympathy game in society. It's stupid mentality.
Hi Twitter, Please Do your magic!
I am looking to connect with B2C founders selling subscription-based software products (any sector works)
Just for learning purposes, primarily on GTM! Please drop names in DM/comments
Thank You so much ❤️
@Zhou_Yu_AI
Hi Zhou, that's genuinely amazing stuff!!
@ English Learners, if you would like to try out a spoken version of this (not a chatbot but just a feedback tool) , do try out the
@StimulerApp
for free!
Feel free to DM for any doubts/feedback
Enjoy!!
Lets first see why people are hating it?
It had drama..
It was scripted..
Those startups are real startups to start with and even if there is drama (which there is tbh), what's the harm?
Would you guys want to watch 1 hr of Startups pitching metrics to a VC daily? I won't...
Day 3 of
#100DaysOfNoCode
Today, I learnt automations using
@zapier
! It was also great to see how some common daily work can be made more efficient using automations
Especially tracking and dealing with new leads without repeating the steps
This is great till now!
#Twitter
Junta- need your help :)
If you know any amazing Flutter dev looking for an internship, tell'em we are hiring at
@StimulerApp
!
It's a 6-months in-office internship in BLR (30-35k/mo stipend)
To apply, mail at akshat
@stimuler
.tech (cc: abhishek
@stimuler
.tech)
MORE ⬇️
Hi Friends,
I am working on growth strategy for
@StimulerApp
& looking for some insights on App GTM channels & ASO
If you know someone who has worked on these before, please tag in comment
Others, Please help this post reach the right people
Thank You so much
Building an investment app for "Gen Z"
Changing the way how "millenials" shop
Creating a Metaverse for the "Youth"
Yeah super awesome & each one of you is inspiring
But why does almost everyone in the biz world (including me) keep forgetting that life exists after 40?👇
Also,
@MaitriThakkar9
and
@mrunali_parikh
for your help with compliances & valuations. There were a lot of complexities, many beyond our understanding (:p)- Thanks for helping us out
Fantastic team overall!
@sourvive
Thank You
@sourvive
for the review and yupp, you are an amazing speaker with that score (:p)
Everyone reading this, if you have any doubts regarding the app usage or suggestions, feel free to reach out to me anytime :)
If you are in any university with a good group of students,
Online Classes is literally the worst way to live out our college years
The loss of social interaction is just so huge, the clubs, the seniors- All lost
ps : We still have no signs of our college reopening...
I in general have high regard for startups but
@StanPlusTech
and
@singhofstanplus
have a super special admiration!
As they say, saving lives is the utmost mission & I firsthand understand how powerful their solution can be in that regard
Hope you take this to all over India!
And to start with, it's not about us.
People who are interested in the startup ecosystem already have access to "educational & serious" content via Youtube etc
It's about educating the mainstream and that's only possible if people watch it to start with