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our soham parekh story: - yes, we hired him. we're building an AI agent in SF. he was eng #5. - recommended by a recruiter, which lent legitimacy. - he was eager and crushed our in person pair programming onsite. i believe he's actually a good engineer. - some have said "this is the danger of credentials". we didn't care, we cared he could ship. - said catnip for founders like "i love what you're building" and "i just want to build 24/7". finally, someone to help carry the load - he gave references. I gave offer while waiting for responses for the first (and last) time. checked linkedin, github, open source commits, blog posts lightly. maybe should have gone deeper but startups need to offer fast to win - he accepted same evening. said he had an nyc trip planned, then would start. - he went dark the next week (strange) but texted on weekend excited for Monday - his first day at 9:30am he calls in sick (strange). said he'd onboard from home. gave an address to ship laptop. - i honestly thought maybe he just missed the flight back from NYC and is embarrassed. idk people's first days are weird when you're getting to know each other - the first red flag: address to ship the laptop to was an SF office building, not apartment (strange). i nearby for a doctor's appointment same day so checked lobby. it had an industrial and sync labs, a yc company. thought, huh maybe his friend works there to grab the laptop, but weird. - next day, soham calls to say too sick to work, going to sleep it off, but he was up to speed on the codebase from yesterday. we said cool, maybe we just push the start date a week to recover. he said he'd onboard throughout the week. - next day, by chance, my co-founder notices his Github profile has a ton of commits in other private repos middle of the night after saying too sick to work. that's when we noticed 1) he had yet to clone our repo 2) he had public commits to sync lab's documentation. - we called him up to ask, what's up, are you still working for sync? all good, just tell us if you are so we can move on. he denied and said he couldn't sleep so was playing with deepseek in his own repos. - my co-founder was ready to move on then (too much smoke). i thought what are the chances someone's actually trying to work at 2 in person SF startups at the same time. i get it if remote. or large company. but 2+ 9-9-7 startups?? no way. let's push his start date, give him a week to recover. - his first day in person day was killer. showed up on time, stayed late, shipped something significant on Day 1. breathed a momentary sigh of relief. - the next few days it all fell apart. called in sick again, but said well enough to work. told us he had just gotten diagnosed with a chronic condition and was really scared. medication had him up all hours. he was waiting on his o1 approval and thought at risk of losing that. wanted to support him and felt for him but whole team was losing trust. late communication, weird signals. - he then spent 2 days saying he was working on something from home we knew should have taken him 1/2 a day max. always almost ready, just testing something. - finally it started blocking the main thread. so my co-founder asked to take over his branch to get it done. almost nothing had been done. fine if too sick to work, but should have communicated that. so knew it was just straight up lie he was working on it. - co-founder decided to call it for performance / shadiness. but just to check, he went over to sync labs and asked "hey is soham here?" someone said "no, he's at home" as if he worked there - at that point, we pinged their founder to confirm he was employed there. - when we called soham up, he denied it to the end. said sync guys were just friends. either way, we were out. in an ironic twist of fate sync dropped an employee of the month video same day that featured none other than soham. - told him working 2+ places same time was breach of FTE contract so not going to process first payroll. no argument from him. he just dipped. - i just assumed young kid who made a mistake. a few months later a few other founders reached out about him. told them the story in private. reflections: - whole thing was a drain of 1 month of time, focus, and energy. only resources you have as a startup. so sucked. - it was embarrassing until yesterday when i realized how widespread. then i was pissed. then impressed. still not sure how he pulled it off for so long with in person startups with long hours, but appreciated the hustle. hope he had a good reason. feels like a stressful way to make money - i made my jokes yesterday, but the internet piles on so also shot soham a text yesterday. wish he'd have been straight up. wish him well. - he's a good eng so will probably be fine. biggest mistake was lying repeatedly which just kills any team's trust fast off the chest so moving on :)

Anything now reviews your app before Apple with 1 click to fix things that will get it rejected

Submitting to the App Store sucks. It's like filing your taxes by hand. So we just launched a single publish button. It's like turbo tax but for vibe coding.

software is changing hands the next wave won’t come from engineers, it’ll come from anyone with an idea we just raised $11m to help you build Anything

should we build this? pretty easy for us actually

10 days to build something real (and potentially win $15k) if you've been sitting on an app idea this is your excuse to finally build it I'm a judge btw

we rushed to get this out as we saw builders get stuck in App Store review it's just going to improve as we get more data goal is to save builders from rejection hell

when we first made what became Anything someone paid us $19/mo then no one paid us for months keep going

Anything is live on Product Hunt Appreciate your vote if you’ve liked it so far

Create is now Anything A few months, we had a breakthrough. Decided to build a radically new AI coding agent. Anything is the result You can build projects that are >100k lines of code reliably. Go for 10+ hours w/o hitting an error it can’t solve. All without looking at the code once. If you’ve ever wanted to launch something but didn’t quite know how, try it. DM me if you’d like a personal onboarding. Early testers built entire mobile apps & SaaS products in a few days. Beautiful, and with everything you need to make money on the internet just built in

devs are always shocked at Anything's code quality if they export but high code quality is key to real apps

Max is out - autonomous software engineer built into Anything Solves every bug we've thrown at it Feels like having your own team

our soham parekh story: - yes, we hired him. we're building an AI agent in SF. he was eng #5. - recommended by a recruiter, which lent legitimacy. - he was eager and crushed our in person pair programming onsite. i believe he's actually a good engineer. - some have said "this is the danger of credentials". we didn't care, we cared he could ship. - said catnip for founders like "i love what you're building" and "i just want to build 24/7". finally, someone to help carry the load - he gave references. I gave offer while waiting for responses for the first (and last) time. checked linkedin, github, open source commits, blog posts lightly. maybe should have gone deeper but startups need to offer fast to win - he accepted same evening. said he had an nyc trip planned, then would start. - he went dark the next week (strange) but texted on weekend excited for Monday - his first day at 9:30am he calls in sick (strange). said he'd onboard from home. gave an address to ship laptop. - i honestly thought maybe he just missed the flight back from NYC and is embarrassed. idk people's first days are weird when you're getting to know each other - the first red flag: address to ship the laptop to was an SF office building, not apartment (strange). i nearby for a doctor's appointment same day so checked lobby. it had an industrial and sync labs, a yc company. thought, huh maybe his friend works there to grab the laptop, but weird. - next day, soham calls to say too sick to work, going to sleep it off, but he was up to speed on the codebase from yesterday. we said cool, maybe we just push the start date a week to recover. he said he'd onboard throughout the week. - next day, by chance, my co-founder notices his Github profile has a ton of commits in other private repos middle of the night after saying too sick to work. that's when we noticed 1) he had yet to clone our repo 2) he had public commits to sync lab's documentation. - we called him up to ask, what's up, are you still working for sync? all good, just tell us if you are so we can move on. he denied and said he couldn't sleep so was playing with deepseek in his own repos. - my co-founder was ready to move on then (too much smoke). i thought what are the chances someone's actually trying to work at 2 in person SF startups at the same time. i get it if remote. or large company. but 2+ 9-9-7 startups?? no way. let's push his start date, give him a week to recover. - his first day in person day was killer. showed up on time, stayed late, shipped something significant on Day 1. breathed a momentary sigh of relief. - the next few days it all fell apart. called in sick again, but said well enough to work. told us he had just gotten diagnosed with a chronic condition and was really scared. medication had him up all hours. he was waiting on his o1 approval and thought at risk of losing that. wanted to support him and felt for him but whole team was losing trust. late communication, weird signals. - he then spent 2 days saying he was working on something from home we knew should have taken him 1/2 a day max. always almost ready, just testing something. - finally it started blocking the main thread. so my co-founder asked to take over his branch to get it done. almost nothing had been done. fine if too sick to work, but should have communicated that. so knew it was just straight up lie he was working on it. - co-founder decided to call it for performance / shadiness. but just to check, he went over to sync labs and asked "hey is soham here?" someone said "no, he's at home" as if he worked there - at that point, we pinged their founder to confirm he was employed there. - when we called soham up, he denied it to the end. said sync guys were just friends. either way, we were out. in an ironic twist of fate sync dropped an employee of the month video same day that featured none other than soham. - told him working 2+ places same time was breach of FTE contract so not going to process first payroll. no argument from him. he just dipped. - i just assumed young kid who made a mistake. a few months later a few other founders reached out about him. told them the story in private. reflections: - whole thing was a drain of 1 month of time, focus, and energy. only resources you have as a startup. so sucked. - it was embarrassing until yesterday when i realized how widespread. then i was pissed. then impressed. still not sure how he pulled it off for so long with in person startups with long hours, but appreciated the hustle. hope he had a good reason. feels like a stressful way to make money - i made my jokes yesterday, but the internet piles on so also shot soham a text yesterday. wish he'd have been straight up. wish him well. - he's a good eng so will probably be fine. biggest mistake was lying repeatedly which just kills any team's trust fast off the chest so moving on :)

software is changing hands the next wave won’t come from engineers, it’ll come from anyone with an idea we just raised $11m to help you build Anything

Submitting to the App Store sucks. It's like filing your taxes by hand. So we just launched a single publish button. It's like turbo tax but for vibe coding.

Anything now reviews your app before Apple with 1 click to fix things that will get it rejected

10 days to build something real (and potentially win $15k) if you've been sitting on an app idea this is your excuse to finally build it I'm a judge btw

Create is now Anything A few months, we had a breakthrough. Decided to build a radically new AI coding agent. Anything is the result You can build projects that are >100k lines of code reliably. Go for 10+ hours w/o hitting an error it can’t solve. All without looking at the code once. If you’ve ever wanted to launch something but didn’t quite know how, try it. DM me if you’d like a personal onboarding. Early testers built entire mobile apps & SaaS products in a few days. Beautiful, and with everything you need to make money on the internet just built in

Loving all these Anything builds Should we start an X community?? Give folks a place to launch to each other

should we build this? pretty easy for us actually

unpopular opinion: vibe coding will just become coding for most things

when we first made what became Anything someone paid us $19/mo then no one paid us for months keep going

Anything is live on Product Hunt Appreciate your vote if you’ve liked it so far

we rushed to get this out as we saw builders get stuck in App Store review it's just going to improve as we get more data goal is to save builders from rejection hell

Incoming game changing launch this week