TeamFounder · Pre-seed

One founder. Real shipping cadence.

Dilly is solo-built. The pre-seed funds the first three hires (mobile, infra, GTM) and unlocks the field-vertical roadmap. Until then: rapid daily shipping, real users, real billing, real product surface.

Dilan Kochhar

Dilan Kochhar

Founder & CEO · Dilly AI LLC

Building the career system I needed in college and never had. Studying Data Science at the University of Tampa. Wrote the entire iOS app, the FastAPI backend, the AI pipeline, and the marketing surface alone in two months. The pre-seed unlocks the first hires and the field-vertical roadmap.

React Native FastAPI · Python Postgres · pgvector Anthropic API Stripe AWS · Railway

Shipping cadence

What a solo founder has shipped in two months.

iOS appReact Native · TypeScript · 573 builds shipped to production
BackendFastAPI · 50+ routers · daily Railway deploys
DatabasePostgres on AWS RDS · encryption at rest · TLS in transit · pgvector planned
Job pipeline30+ ATS & niche sources crawled at 02:00 UTC daily · 50K+ active jobs maintained
BillingStripe across .edu, standard, and Pro flows · all subscriptions 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 pre-seed

$1.2M, 18 months of runway, three hires.

  • Hire 1 · Senior mobile engineerReact Native at scale · Android app · accelerate weekly velocity
  • Hire 2 · Backend / infraPgvector rollout · field-vertical sharding · cost & reliability guard
  • Hire 3 · GTM / partnershipsFirst 25 schools · referral / parent-invite GTM · recruiter pilots
  • Infra & LLM spendHeadroom for 10K active users at audited cost target
  • Buffer~20% reserve for opportunistic moves (App Store launch promo, niche-field GTM)

Open to talking. Quick intros work.

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