66th percentile
Serial founder building DollhouseMCP, an open-source agentic AI tooling project
Credibility
Technical Depth · 84th percentile
- Currently shipping public code with a push 0 days ago to 'orbital-lifeboats'.
- Current founder of DollhouseMCP / Dollhouse Research.
- Active builder with 53 public repos on GitHub.
- Verified GitHub account @mickdarling.
- Tenured GitHub account, joined in 2010.
Relationship Matrix
Founder score
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Currently shipping public code with a push 0 days ago to 'orbital-lifeboats'.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Active builder with 53 public repos on GitHub.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Verified GitHub account @mickdarling.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Tenured GitHub account, joined in 2010.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Identified Hacker News account @mickdarling.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Current founder of DollhouseMCP / Dollhouse Research.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Past founder/cofounder of Tomorrowish and TVDuffle.
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)Has worked with co-founders across past ventures including TVDuffle.
What you likely need
You're at the distribution-before-fundraising stage with DollhouseMCP, so the highest-leverage Festival events are ones that put you in front of agentic-AI builders who could become design partners or early adopters, and Boston-based pre-seed investors who are already writing checks into MCP/agent infra. Secondary wins come from events that sharpen your public positioning and help you find a DevRel/DX hire who lives inside open-source AI tooling communities.
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 dinner for founders actively building agentic products on Claude, ChatGPT, or Gemini APIs to recruit 5–10 DollhouseMCP design partners who can co-develop persona and skill packs in exchange for early roadmap influence
- introsA Boston-based roundtable with Underscore VC, Founder Collective, and Pillar VC partners who are actively writing pre-seed checks into MCP and agent-infrastructure plays, so you can build warm relationships before you open a priced round
- positioningA small Show HN launch prep session with founders who have hit the HN front page on AI-dev-tools posts — including at least one who has run a successful open-source MCP or LLM-tooling launch — to pressure-test your framing before you post
- hiringA happy hour for DevRel and developer-experience engineers who have grown open-source AI or LLM-tooling communities on Discord and GitHub, so you can identify and pitch your first DollhouseMCP hire in a low-pressure setting
- positioningA dinner with 6–8 MCP-ecosystem builders and AI-infrastructure founders to workshop the core argument that composable personas, skills, and agents are the missing primitive in the MCP stack — sharpening the narrative for your Show HN and blog post
- fundraisingA roundtable with pre-seed founders and seed investors who have successfully used defensible IP — patents, novel architectures, or proprietary datasets — as a wedge in their fundraising narrative, so you can learn how to foreground your 4 NLP AI patents in DollhouseMCP conversations
- wellbeingA dinner for founders who have successfully transitioned from media-tech or consulting-heavy backgrounds into full-time AI-infrastructure or developer-tools companies, to share hard-won lessons on winding down legacy revenue and going all-in during the critical first year