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Danny Hunt

About Me

I'm a Founder and Software Engineer based in London. Currently exploring new ideas including building a bouldering gym 👀

I love:

  • â–¹Leading and pushing a team forward
  • â–¹Working on difficult technical challenges
  • â–¹Collaborating with people that are great, open & passionate about what they do

Fun fact: Peak lichess.org rating: 2656

Co-Founder

GTM Agency Startup (YC P26 - accepted twice)

  • â–¹Accepted into Y Combinator P26 batch twice with a go-to-market agency startup
  • â–¹Automating GTM operations - a space well-suited for AI where latency tolerance and margins for imperfection allow for rapid innovation
  • â–¹Disbanded due to co-founder issues

Engineer

Cogna

  • â–¹Developing a framework enabling coding agents to replicate the complete software development lifecycle
  • â–¹Creating intuitive UX that helps non-technical users communicate their actual needs

Founding Engineer

Wordware (YC S24)

  • â–¹Scaled app performance in 2 days when usage suddenly spiked to 4 million users
  • â–¹Rebuilt a prompt-first programming language to break out of the http request lifecycle & migrate from Vercel -> Cloudflare reducing costs by 80%
  • â–¹Implemented Stripe payments subscription & usage billing to pass on costs for 20 third party LLM & data APIs
Previous Roles
  • â–¹Built infrastructure for hosting & spinning up arbitrary LLM models on demand for adversarial research
  • â–¹Launched a product from zero to market traction (thousands of MAUs, $3K MRR)
  • â–¹Performance-optimized an excel-like spreadsheet formula language
  • â–¹Managed a product team building out a public API & in-app scripting functionality for a SaaS product