# Engineer who built DarkBloom (P2P GPU inference) – started coding at 10, now 18

> Source: <https://twitter.com/pratikg/status/2091799024299086319>
> Published: 2026-08-25 23:52:17+00:00

Pratik Gandhi on X: "This is @gajesh at 10, building a chatbot for a startup before anyone cared about AI.
He recently created @darkbloomai, which enables anyone with a Mac on their desk or couch to run open-weight models and earn.
The whole arc:
> Be Gajesh
> Born in Goa, India
> Starts coding at"

This is @gajesh at 10, building a chatbot for a startup before anyone cared about AI.
He recently created @darkbloomai, which enables anyone with a Mac on their desk or couch to run open-weight models and earn.
The whole arc:
> Be Gajesh
> Born in Goa, India
> Starts coding at 7 with FreeCodeCamp and Code(.)org
> No background, no one in tech he could call
> Builds chatbot for a startup at 10 when ai wasn't cool
> COVID hits. bro has all the time in the world
> Starts a YT channel grows it to 15k subs and 1m views in 4 months
> Builds his own app (Gaj Finance), gets $7 million AUM
> Everyone finds out he's 13. Becomes a sensation on X
> Balaji tweets about him
> Finishes High School at 16
> Joins Eigen Labs at 15; joins as an Engineer
> Gets O1 Visa at 16, Moves to Seattle
> Helps build EigenLayer to $10B+ AUM
> Accelerates engineering and growth functions. Builds 10+ projects and experiments
> Makes a boring product like data availability 2M+ views
> Lands customer with 800k MAU with just cold DMs
> Featured in Forbes, TheBlock, Decrypt "the 13-year-old who built a $7M money manager"
> Launches Darkbloom on Day 1 of his vacation. #1 on Hacker News 48 hours later
> Gets 100 million to 5 billion tokens/day in 2 months
> Darkbloom has over 350 macs in people's homes, each earning $120-200/mo
> Story just getting started.
The video is him at 10. He is 18 now. Lives in the SF Bay Area.
Gajesh keeps building.
Darkbloom is what he’s building now at Eigen Labs. x.com/SharmaShradha/…

This is @gajesh at 10, building a chatbot for a startup before anyone cared about AI.
He recently created @darkbloomai, which enables anyone with a Mac on their desk or couch to run open-weight models and earn.
The whole arc:
> Be Gajesh
> Born in Goa, India
> Starts coding at 7 with FreeCodeCamp and Code(.)org
> No background, no one in tech he could call
> Builds chatbot for a startup at 10 when ai wasn't cool
> COVID hits. bro has all the time in the world
> Starts a YT channel grows it to 15k subs and 1m views in 4 months
> Builds his own app (Gaj Finance), gets $7 million AUM
> Everyone finds out he's 13. Becomes a sensation on X
> Balaji tweets about him
> Finishes High School at 16
> Joins Eigen Labs at 15; joins as an Engineer
> Gets O1 Visa at 16, Moves to Seattle
> Helps build EigenLayer to $10B+ AUM
> Accelerates engineering and growth functions. Builds 10+ projects and experiments
> Makes a boring product like data availability 2M+ views
> Lands customer with 800k MAU with just cold DMs
> Featured in Forbes, TheBlock, Decrypt "the 13-year-old who built a $7M money manager"
> Launches Darkbloom on Day 1 of his vacation. #1 on Hacker News 48 hours later
> Gets 100 million to 5 billion tokens/day in 2 months
> Darkbloom has over 350 macs in people's homes, each earning $120-200/mo
> Story just getting started.
The video is him at 10. He is 18 now. Lives in the SF Bay Area.
Gajesh keeps building.
Darkbloom is what he’s building now at Eigen Labs. x.com/SharmaShradha/…

There is so much detail to this story i missed.
It's 1.07 am right now, i just wanted to post it before i slept!
Follow @gajesh. He tells it better than i do ❤️

For those who missed it, here's the full Darkbloom timeline so far:
> Apr 14: @gajesh launches @darkbloomai on 1st day of his vacation
> Apr 16: Darkbloom hits #1 on Hacker News
> Jun 15: Darkbloom goes LIVE on @OpenRouter (@ 600K tokens per minute)
> Jun 16: 100M tokens/day
>

wow. i almost forgot about this video. it always get me very emotional and grateful towards the people who have been there for me through this journey.
i remember building those customer support ai chatbots with dialogflow (from google, unf got discontinued).
also crazy to see