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74th percentile
Microsoft engineer turned founder shipping LookYah, a live events discovery app
Credibility
Technical Depth · 90th percentile
- Works at Microsoft, which is ranked #454 in the Majestic Million via lnkd.in.
- Currently shipping public code with a push to the 'shawn-grant' repo just 4 days ago.
- Active builder on GitHub with 37 public non-fork repositories.
- GitHub account @shawn-grant verified as the subject's account, matching name and bio.
- GitHub account is over 10 years old, created in September 2015.
- Maintains the 'devfolders' package on npm with approximately 44 monthly downloads.
- Identified as a Hugging Face author under the handle @shawngrant.
- Top GitHub repo 'caribbean-microsoft-internship' has only 7 stars, below the 100-star threshold for top-repo star points.
Relationship Matrix
Founder score
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Currently shipping public code with a push to the 'shawn-grant' repo just 4 days ago.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Active builder on GitHub with 37 public non-fork repositories.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)GitHub account @shawn-grant verified as the subject's account, matching name and bio.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)GitHub account is over 10 years old, created in September 2015.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Top GitHub repo 'caribbean-microsoft-internship' has only 7 stars, below the 100-star threshold for top-repo star points.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Works at Microsoft, which is ranked #454 in the Majestic Million via lnkd.in.
- 82%Probability of being accurate (82%)Current founder of LookYah, a design services app launched in 2024.
- 75%Probability of being accurate (75%)Maintains the 'devfolders' package on npm with approximately 44 monthly downloads.
- 55%Probability of being accurate (55%)Identified as a Hugging Face author under the handle @shawngrant.
What you likely need
You're a early-stage founder with a day job at Microsoft and a live product in LookYah — the Festival events that will move the needle for you are ones that get real users in the room, sharpen your Product Hunt and OSS positioning, and open doors to YC-track investors who back underrepresented founders. You'd also benefit from tight-knit gatherings with Caribbean and HBCU-adjacent tech communities where you can plant a flag as the go-to regional builder. Skip the broad networking nights; prioritize small, high-feedback rooms where your work can be seen and stress-tested.
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.
- tacticalA design-tool founders dinner where 6-8 early-stage product builders give live qualitative feedback on LookYah's core value proposition — structured as a 20-user feedback sprint compressed into one evening
- positioningA Product Hunt launch roundtable for pre-revenue dev-tools and design-tool founders prepping imminent launches, swapping upvote strategies, hunter intros, and day-one community activation playbooks
- positioningAn OSS contributor happy hour for founders who've shipped npm packages and Dev.to or Hashnode content, focused on growing downloads past the 100/month threshold and converting package users into startup users
- fundraisingA YC application prep dinner for first-time founders from underrepresented regions — Caribbean, Africa, LatAm — who have Microsoft or FAANG credibility and a live product but haven't yet pulled the trigger on applying
- introsA Caribbean developer network dinner for founders and operators building visibility in the region, modeled on the kind of community Shawn bootstrapped through his 'caribbean-microsoft-internship' guide and GDSC Utech leadership
- positioningA Microsoft alumni roundtable for engineers-turned-founders who've shipped internal tools like Fluent UI contributions or Viva data visualization packages and want to convert that work into public 'Show HN' or blog credibility
- fundraisingA pre-seed dev-tools investor office hours session with 3-4 angels and micro-VCs who back solo technical founders at the idea-validation stage, ideal for stress-testing LookYah's fundraising narrative before a formal raise