I'm a 16-Year-Old Self-Taught Developer

I'm a 16-Year-Old Self-Taught Developer – Built 700 Projects

3 RajGuruYadav 1 7/9/2025, 4:43:00 AM

Hi HN,

I’m Raj Guru Yadav, a 16-year-old self-taught programmer from India .

Over the past 3 years, I’ve built over 700+ projects — mostly small to mid-level apps, tools, games, AI bots, voice assistants, logic experiments, and UI systems.

I never attended a course or bootcamp — I learned everything from YouTube, documentation, and experimenting on my own. I use:

Languages: Python, JavaScript, C++, Java, HTML/CSS, Ruby

Tools: Firebase, GitHub, ChatGPT, Replit, VS Code

Recently, I developed something called Blob AI – a glowing, voice-reactive digital assistant with smart responses and visual effects (I’ll share it soon in a Show HN post).

Why I’m Here I’ve been silently reading Hacker News for a while, and now I want to:

Join the dev/startup conversation

Learn from experienced builders

Get feedback on my journey and ideas

Ask questions and maybe help others too

If you're a dev, founder, educator, or just curious – I’d love to connect. Ask me anything: about learning to code young, building fast, staying consistent, or how I come up with ideas.

Thanks for reading. — Raj Guru Yadav GitHub: coming soon @rajguruyadav_official

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herbst · 1h ago

700? Not bad. How many of them saw kind of success and are still running?

Attimet (YC F24) – Quant Trading Research Lab – Is Hiring Founding Researcher (ycombinator.com)

Metriport (YC S22) is hiring engineers to improve healthcare data exchange (ycombinator.com)

Telli (YC F24) Is Hiring Engineers [On-Site Berlin] (hi.telli.com)

Continue (YC S23) is hiring software engineers in San Francisco (ycombinator.com)

UpCodes (YC S17) is hiring a Head of Ops to automate construction compliance (up.codes)

Enhanced Radar (YC W25) is hiring a founding engineer

Converge (YC S23) well-capitalized New York startup seeks product developers (runconverge.com)

Kyber (YC W23) Is Hiring Enterprise BDRs (ycombinator.com)

MindsDB (YC W20) is hiring an AI solutions engineer (job-boards.greenhouse.io)

Recurse Center (YC S10) Is Hiring a Career Facilitator (recurse.notion.site)

Cua (YC X25) is hiring an engineer (ycombinator.com)

Noloco (YC S21) is hiring a founder's associate in Barcelona (ycombinator.com)

14.ai (YC W24) hiring founding engineers in SF to build a Zendesk alternative (14.ai)

Lago (Open-Source Usage Based Billing) is hiring for ten roles (ycombinator.com)

Spark AI (YC W24) is hiring a full-stack engineer in SF (founding team) (ycombinator.com)

Bitmovin (YC S15) Is Hiring a Junior Solutions Engineer in Denver (bitmovin.com)

SigNoz (YC W21, Open Source Datadog) Is Hiring DevRel Engineers (Remote)(US) (ycombinator.com)

AccessOwl (YC S22) is hiring an Elixir Engineer to connect 100s of SaaS (ycombinator.com)

FurtherAI (YC W24) Is Hiring for Software and AI Roles (ycombinator.com)

Yarn (YC W24) is hiring engineers in NYC (ycombinator.com)

Expand.ai (YC S24) is hiring a founding engineer

Optifye.ai (YC W25) is hiring a back end engineer

Kastle (S24) is hiring an engineer (ycombinator.com)

Weave (YC W25) is hiring a founding AI engineer (ycombinator.com)

Qfex (YC X25) – Back End Engineer for a 24/7 Stock Exchange (ycombinator.com)

Attimet (YC F24) – Quant Trading Research Lab – Is Hiring Founding Engineer (ycombinator.com)

Jiga (YC W21) Is Hiring Software Engs to Make Life of Mech Engs Easier (workatastartup.com)

Foundry (YC F24) Hiring Early Engineer to Build Web Agent Infrastructure (ycombinator.com)

Blaze (YC S24) Is Hiring (ycombinator.com)

Infracost (YC W21) is hiring software engineers (GMT+2 to GMT-6) (infracost.io)

I'm a 16-Year-Old Self-Taught Developer – Built 700 Projects

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