Varun Mayya

Experience

• Human · Aeos Group

  2024 - Present

  trying stuff at the intersection of genAI and content. Part technology, part creativity.

• Hacker era · Self-employed

  May 2023 - Present

  Spent a few months hacking around and building Generative AI apps and games. Autocodepro.com (prompt2code), AlphaCTR.com (YouTube thumbnail generator based on a finetuned stable diffusion model), Godinabox.co (GPT inside WhatsApp), overpoweredcardgame.com and a few more. I built these for fun and to learn everything I can about the space and possible opportunities. The apps cumulatively have over a million users.

• Hacker era

  May 2023 - Present

  Spent a few months hacking around and building Generative AI apps and games. Autocodepro.com (prompt2code), AlphaCTR.com (YouTube thumbnail generator based on a finetuned stable diffusion model), Godinabox.co (GPT inside WhatsApp), overpoweredcardgame.com and a few more. I built these for fun and to learn everything I can about the space and possible opportunities. The apps cumulatively have over a million users.

• Angel Investor · 100xEngineers

  Aug 2023 - Aug 2023

  My thesis is that generativeAI will transform the skill of writing code into a baseline skill required in all jobs, similar to what English is to many jobs in India. With 100x, I backed Sid and team to go out and teach people to engineer for the AI era the right way — with outcomes and placements in mind and without an overt bias on programming languages — it may one day get abstracted to just English :) EdTech is notorious for bad actors, but I made the call because this team genuinely cares about the people they’re teaching.

• Chief Executive Officer · Scenes (previously Avalon Meta)

  2021 - May 2023

  Community software used by some Indian banks, stock broker platforms, insurance companies, and EdTechs. Examples include uNext, Financewithsharan, Ankur Warikoo, and plenty more. Raised a small seed round in 2020. Our original goal was to build a profitable social media company out of India. While we did get users, monetizing them at scale turned out to be an insurmountable challenge.

• Founder · Avalon Labs

  Aug 2017 - Aug 2020

  Good old services company writing code for businesses across the world. We also had a penchant for running a lot of experiments using the scientific method of hypothesis, experimentation, observation, repetition. We had a high failure rate across our product experiments with some wins here and there. However, we learned a lot!

• Product Manager · TurnToTech

  Mar 2017 - Dec 2017

  Jobspire was acquired by New York based bootcamp company, TurnToTech, in 2017

• CEO and Founder · Jobspire

  Jul 2014 - Feb 2017

  Was one of the youngest entrepreneurs at the time to raise early stage venture capital. Raised 1.7 Crores for a recruitment startup. Helped 1500 companies hire including Uber and Swiggy.

Education

• Manipal Institute of Technology

  Computer Science Engineering · 2011 - 2015

Recent posts (12)

• VideoApr 4, 2025

  Coming soon. We talk: - Indian 4o Image gen usage (some numbers too) - Design jobs - Miyazaki's, AI, and the evolving nature of art - How should founders think about building rn (wrappers or not) - Is prompt engineering a real job? - Evolution of code + more Sub to YT!

• VideoJan 13, 2025

  Full Podcast Link In Bio. Satya Nadella on “Is SaaS dead?, How 2025 is the year of Agents, Advice for Indian Engineers, and more!”

• VideoMay 16, 2024

  I also asked Sundar what he thinks of wrapper startups 😁 Coming soon. Make sure you subscribe to me on YouTube. You don’t want to miss this.

• VideoOct 16, 2026

  Tesla roadster can now…fly?!

• VideoOct 14, 2026

  Breaking News: Someone just planted a “sophisticated recording device” inside OpenAI’s office and tried to steal its secret!

• VideoOct 13, 2026

  This is my engineer with 10 years of experience. And this is our security guard, who has never written a line of code in his life. Can someone who’s never coded, but has the best vibe coding tools, beat an engineer using the old methods? The guard can’t type, so we installed @wisprflow and told him to just talk. He described what he wanted in his own words, and Wispr Flow turned it into clean, usable prompts. If you can explain an idea out loud, you can now build with it. The tools have gotten good enough to catch edge cases and write the spec for you. But knowing what a form is, or why something breaks, still matters. Vibe coding gets you further than ever. Understanding is what gets you the rest of the way. Who do you think won? Comment below

• VideoOct 12, 2026

  This GitHub repo is quietly blowing up because it lets your AI agent reverse engineer any app, without the source code. It’s called REA, it’s free, it runs on your own laptop, and it has already crossed 130,000 stars.

• VideoOct 11, 2026

  This is the full GTA V running natively on an iPhone 17, at around 50 to 60 fps. It isn’t streaming from the cloud and was built by one developer in a few days.

• VideoOct 11, 2026

  Where should you invest next within your own business? For Varun Mayya, learning from other markets brings fresh perspective to that decision. At Sharjah Investment Forum 2026, he’ll share lessons from his work in AI and content, exploring what has worked, what hasn’t and where businesses should focus their next investment. Hear his perspective in “The Future Is Now: Investing in What Comes Next.” Register now. 📅 October 14–15 📍 Al Jawaher Reception and Convention Centre, Sharjah أين توجّه استثمارك القادم داخل شركتك؟ يرى فارون مايا أن الاطلاع على تجارب الأسواق الأخرى يمنح قادة الأعمال رؤية أوسع لاتخاذ هذا القرار. وفي منتدى الشارقة للاستثمار 2026، يشارك خلاصة تجربته في الذكاء الاصطناعي وصناعة المحتوى، من الخطوات التي نجحت إلى الدروس التي تعلّمها، وكيف يمكن للشركات تحديد أولوياتها الاستثمارية للمستقبل. انضموا إليه واستمعوا إلى رؤيته حول الاستثمار في ما هو قادم. سجّلوا الآن. 📅 14–15 أكتوبر 📍 مركز الجواهر للمناسبات والمؤتمرات، الشارقة

• VideoOct 8, 2026

  Ben Affleck, the director and actor, just revealed that he writes Python, understands convolutional neural networks, and has even worked extensively with GPUs

• VideoOct 9, 2026

  This is Build What Moves India, where 10 teams were selected from 13,694 applications to build solutions for real problems around public services in India. The teams built everything from an AI-powered cybercrime reporting system and a blood donor matching platform to tools for tracking government spending, verifying land records, applying for visas, filing business forms, and navigating government websites. Each team gets 10 minutes to pitch their idea, followed by questions from the judges. The judges then have to decide which projects are actually useful, practical, impactful, and possible to implement quickly. Watch the entire video to find out who actually won and why. But more importantly, you’d also learn why the others didn’t win and what you can learn from it.

• VideoOct 8, 2026

  Share this with a friend without work life balance and ask them what their screen time is? We went out on the streets of Bangalore to ask people if they have work-life balance. But when they said no, we asked to see their screen time to find out if work was really the problem.