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Founder189Past founder
94th percentile
Investor0Not (yet!) an investor
Combined
Serial engineer-founder now shipping AI products at Anthropic
• Professional:Serial Founder
Credibility
this founder typical founder (50th pct)
Technical Depth · 97th percentile
- Created OSS project 'obsidian-claude-code-mcp' with 328 stars on GitHub.
- Active in last year — most recent public push was ~214 days ago (repo 'react-string-replace'), with 3 repos pushed in the last 12 months; top repo has 328 stars qualifying as a substantial builder.
- Demonstrates personal technical depth: HN comments and posts cover Rust/Zig firmware internals, AI tooling architecture (Cursor vs Copilot), API reverse-engineering, and Obsidian plugin development.
- Active builder with 194 public non-fork repos on GitHub.
- GitHub Sponsors enabled — recognized as an open-source maintainer the community funds.
- Identified GitHub account @iansinnott with 194 public repos and 13-year account history.
- Maintains 30 public gists on GitHub, demonstrating practitioner-level code sharing.
- GitHub account created in 2012, giving it over 12 years of tenure.
Relationship Matrix
Founder score
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)anthropic.com ranks #834 on the Majestic Million (global domain prominence).
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Identified GitHub account @iansinnott with 194 public repos and 13-year account history.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)GitHub account created in 2012, giving it over 12 years of tenure.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)1,004 LinkedIn followers — broad professional reach.
- 92%Probability of being accurate (92%)Identified Hacker News account @iansinnott with 850 karma.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Active builder with 194 public non-fork repos on GitHub.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)HN karma of 850 falls in the 500–1,999 tier.
- 88%Probability of being accurate (88%)Created OSS project 'obsidian-claude-code-mcp' with 328 stars on GitHub.
- 88%Probability of being accurate (88%)Top HN post 'Why I rewrote my Rust keyboard firmware in Zig: consistency, mastery, and fun' reached 743 points.
- 88%Probability of being accurate (88%)Maintains 30 public gists on GitHub, demonstrating practitioner-level code sharing.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Active in last year — most recent public push was ~214 days ago (repo 'react-string-replace'), with 3 repos pushed in the last 12 months; top repo has 328 stars qualifying as a substantial builder.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)2 HN posts scored 100+ points, reaching the front page — strong community reach and virality.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)GitHub Sponsors enabled — recognized as an open-source maintainer the community funds.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Has 5 Show HN launch posts on Hacker News, demonstrating repeated product-launch activity in public.
- 82%Probability of being accurate (82%)Past founder of two companies (Uncloud and Pairwise), self-described as 'founder of two failed businesses' on Medium.
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)Demonstrates personal technical depth: HN comments and posts cover Rust/Zig firmware internals, AI tooling architecture (Cursor vs Copilot), API reverse-engineering, and Obsidian plugin development.
- 65%Probability of being accurate (65%)Co-founded Pairwise with at least one other engineer, indicating co-founder experience.
What you likely need
You're a serial technical founder who has shipped multiple products — from coding education platforms to AI chatbots — and now brings that builder instinct to Anthropic. Your strongest public signals are deep technical credibility (Rust/Zig, AI tooling, OSS) and a track record of launching products in public via Show HN and GitHub. Events that connect you with other technical founders building AI-native tools, or that help you think about your next venture, would be the highest-leverage use of your time at Founder Festival.
Would you attend these IRL Festival events?
We will tune and customize your Founder Festival experience to make sure you get invited to the events that would be most valuable to you.
- introsA dinner for technical founders building AI-native developer tools and MCP/agent infrastructure, to share early product theses and find co-founders.
- introsA roundtable with current and former Anthropic engineers who have spun out or are considering their next founding moment.
- positioningA workshop for repeat Show HN launchers on converting open-source traction into a fundable product narrative.
- tacticalA meetup for founders building in the personal knowledge management and Obsidian plugin ecosystem to explore distribution and monetization strategies.
- fundraisingAn office-hours session with pre-seed investors specifically backing technical solo founders in AI tooling and developer productivity.
- positioningA dinner for engineers who have built popular open-source projects (100–1,000 stars) and are exploring how to turn them into sustainable businesses.
- hiringA happy hour connecting SF-based founders with deep Asia-Pacific roots (Taiwan, China) for cross-border hiring and market-entry intros.