Aditya Sood
Founder/CTO at Contrario
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Founder & CTO at Contrario. Stanford BS graduate, Masters dropout. Led NLP at NASA, published AI research in defense tech, researcher at Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (SAIL) x Anthropic lab.
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- Role: AI & ML
- Specialty: AI / ML
- Specialty: Researcher / Academic
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LLM GeneratorAuto generates llms.txt files |
AgentRidgeLocal pentest Mission Control |
SaasTracSaaS Reviews & AI Agents |
PraxenaPraxena tests AI tools in French and publishes their real prices, re-checked every month. |
AI MasteringTry free AI mastering online |
InquioFind the problems your bot |
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Founder stories from AI & Automation startups
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OnceHub: A Long Search for the Right Scheduling ProblemRami Goraly spent years refining the business that became OnceHub. A narrower scheduling use case created traction, and the company later expanded into qualification, customer conversations, and voice booking while remai |
Kissflow: Finding the Workflow Business Inside a Technology PlatformSuresh Sambandam's early platform struggled to turn technical capability into a strong business. Watching customers build workflows led to Kissflow, followed by a different approach to marketing, enterprise sales, and so |
Wade Foster charged $100 after building the integration a forum asked forWade Foster says Zapier's first paying customer was Mixergy's Andrew Warner, billed $100 into an unfinished beta after Wade found a stale PayPal-to-Highrise plea and then shipped Wufoo-to-AWeber instead, taking the money |
FounderPal sold strategies as one-time payments, not subscriptionsSveta Bay says Marketing Strategy Generator brought around $10,000 a month in one-time payments after a second MVP earned $60,000 in six months. Dan Kulkov later said that paid product made around $100,000 in ten months. |
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AI assistants & chatbots3,886 listed products |
Machine learning platforms540 listed products |
AI models & APIs475 listed products |
Agent builders & orchestration436 listed products |
Workflow automation & integrations394 listed products |
LLMOps & evaluation190 listed products |
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