TeamFounder · Seed

20 years old.

Dilly is solo-built. 1,100+ production builds. App Store live since May 2026. The full iOS app, FastAPI backend, AI pipeline, marketing surface, and Medical + Admissions verticals on the same spine. One person with Claude Code. This seed round funds the first 10K users, the first retention proof, and one hire. Not a rebuild.

Dilan Kochhar

Founder & CEO · Dilly AI LLC

Building the career platform I needed in college and never had. Sophomore at the University of Tampa Honors College, B.S. Data Science (May 2028) with minors in Math and Computer Science. Wrote the entire Dilly iOS app, FastAPI backend, AI pipeline, and marketing surface alone in six months of shipping with Claude Code.

President of UT's Data Science Club. Chairman of Technology at Alpha Kappa Psi. Co-founder of The Kochhar Education Foundation, a nonprofit that raised $20,000 to put 60 computers in six underprivileged schools in Tamil Nadu, reaching 100,000+ students and families.

TypeScript · React Native FastAPI · Python (OOP) Postgres · embeddings Anthropic Claude · Claude Code Stripe AWS · Railway SQL ML · classification, regression

Track record

Specific proof, dated and cited.

Solo-built Dilly didn't come from nowhere. Here are the things shipped before it, every one of them with a real number attached.

Founder · Tampa · 2025-Present

Dilly

Full-stack AI career platform for verified college students. Solo-built with Claude Code. iOS, FastAPI, Anthropic, Postgres, Stripe. 1,100+ production builds. Medical + Admissions verticals building on the same spine.

AI Engineering Intern · Jun-Aug 2025

KVR Properties

Shipped a lease-prediction model using gradient-boosted classification against the firm's 10,000+ applicant pipeline. Built the ML pipeline end-to-end in Python (OOP). 88% accuracy, translating model outputs into actual leasing decisions for stakeholders.

Project · May 2025

County Political Affiliation Model

Logistic regression on five elections of MIT Election Lab data, predicting 2024 county-level party affiliation. 96% accuracy.

Co-Founder · NY · Dec 2022-Present

The Kochhar Education Foundation

Founded a nonprofit. Raised $20,000, purchased 60 computers with accessories, donated to six underprivileged schools in Tamil Nadu. Reached 100,000+ students and families. SEO and donor-acquisition partnership with the Tamil Nadu Foundation.

President · April 2026-Present

UT Data Science & AI Club

Hosted AI workshops teaching students across every major how to use Claude Code, Cursor, and modern AI tooling to strengthen their portfolios and résumés.

Chairman of Technology · Dec 2025-Present

Alpha Kappa Psi · UT

Spearheaded the fraternity's technology infrastructure at UT and trained members on AI and data management.

Shipping cadence

What a solo founder has shipped since launch.

iOS appReact Native · TypeScript · 1,100+ builds shipped to production

BackendFastAPI · 50+ routers · daily Railway deploys

DatabasePostgres on AWS RDS · encryption at rest · TLS in transit · job embeddings live

Job pipeline50+ ATS & niche sources crawled at 02:00 UTC daily · 50K+ active jobs maintained

BillingStripe · Free + $8.99/mo · .edu-gated · billed direct, no App Store IAP

AIClaude Haiku 4.5 · structured prompt cache · grounded Truth Ledger · daily cost audit

Marketing5 connected sites: hellodilly.com · skills.hellodilly.com · privacy.hellodilly.com · help.hellodilly.com · brain.hellodilly.com

Recruiter MVPScaffolding in repo · Blind Audition guard · verified-candidate API endpoints stubbed

Use of seed

$250K buys distribution on a live product.

GTM · student acquisitionCampus + .edu referral · first 25 schools · App Store / organic · path to 10K actives
Hire 1 · GTM / partnershipsSchool partnerships, parent-invite for Admissions, campus reps: the hire that buys retention proof
Founder + ops runwayKeep shipping Career, Medical, Admissions. Product is not what this check pays to invent
Infra & LLM spend~$0.40/active user/mo · ~$0.10/free user/mo · headroom for 10K actives
Buffer~20% reserve · round can stretch to $500K if oversubscribed