Ahmet Dedeler

Ankara, Turkey

I’m currently taking a gap year and building LLMarena.ai (recently got acquired!), 1600.lol (modernizing SAT prep), and Veo3gen.app (making Veo3 video generation cheaper).

Previously, I was at Y Combinator’s AI Startup School, built Watch-Out (an AI-powered earthquake safety project moving toward a patent), and created countless.dev, a tool with 40k+ users exploring AI models. I’ve interned at HyperbeeAI (working on LLM routing, fine-tuning, and local models) and Koç University (blockchain/cryptography research).

Some things I’m interested in:

  • What should I be doing right now to be the person who creates the next Microsoft/Google?
  • Web/Mobile Consumer apps
  • Tech for disaster prevention and climate resilience
  • Writing

My long-term ambition is to be useful and work on things that matter. I know this is vague, but I'd be lying if I said I knew the exact answer.

My DMs are open. Not working with other brilliant people is such an obvious dilemma which I haven't overcame yet. Whatever it is about, feel free to reach out!

Also, I always appreciate feedback!