Ibrohim Abdivokhidov Wrapped 2024

January

• Stopped applying for jobs; realized it was counterproductive.
• Began pursuing my dreams by creating and building stuff.
• Created accounts on all social platforms: LinkedIn, YouTube, X (Twitter), Instagram, Twitch, etc. here
• Updated my LinkedIn profile, finding it especially promising. ¹
• Earned LinkedIn badges by contributing to collaborative articles. ²
• Founded GPTHub, the first company entirely powered by ChatGPT. ³
• Started filming tutorials for my YouTube channel. ⁴
• Became more active on X, sharing tutorials and engaging with startup founders and engineers. ⁵
• Wrote tutorials on Medium and Lablabai, including articles and short stories. ⁶
• Promoted myself across all social media platforms. ⁷
• Begun streaming on Twitch. ⁸
• Created multiple projects. ⁹
• Started freelancing on Upwork. ¹⁰
• Drafted ideas for a medical project. ¹¹
• Published my first Flutter package. ¹²
• Continued working as an Undergraduate Research Assistant. ¹³

February

• Developed Spotius, AstroAI, and JobViz for GPTHub. ¹⁴
• Won a hackathon with AstroAI. ¹⁵
• Explored AI technologies like Midjourney and DALL-E. ¹⁶
• Accepted into Microsoft for Startups Founders Hub. ¹⁷
• Received three Top Voice badges on LinkedIn. ²
• Joined Nobel Learning PBC as an intern. ¹⁸
• Uploaded the world's shortest mobile app development course on YouTube. ¹⁹
• Requested LinkedIn to add Prompt Engineering to collaborative articles. ²⁰
• Participated in the Google Solution Challenge. ²¹
• Created and then left a Topmate profile, learning to take action without waiting to feel ready.
• Built the first version of Brain MRI (now CoMed) during an AI hackathon. ¹¹
• Joined the Technovation Girls program as a mentor, guiding young girls in creating projects. ²²
• Failed Microsoft Imagine Cup. ²³

P.S.: Throughout the month, I applied to various programs.

March

• Completed freelancing on Upwork. ⁹
• Focused on sharing more articles for LinkedIn and Medium.
• Submitted my solution to the GDSC Solution Challenge 2024. ²¹
• Created my first carousel post on LinkedIn. ²⁴
• Neuralink demonstrated results of their first brain-chip in a human patient. ²⁵
• Applied to Wolfram Summer School. (rejected) ²⁶
• Joined Nobel Learning PBC as a mentor.

P.S.: Throughout the month, I applied to various programs.

April

• Applied to Y Combinator as a solo founder for the first time with my startup: CoMedAI (now CoMed) - an open-source, fully autonomous AI Brain MRI Analysis & Diagnosis platform for doctors to help their patients. ²⁷
• Received rejections from Snap Inc. and Next Shift Learning. ²⁸
• Got rejected by Cornell University (transfer application during junior year; low probability of acceptance). ²⁹
• Got rejected by Yale University (same scenario). ³⁰
• Got rejected by Brown University (same scenario). ³¹
• Got rejected by Stanford University (same scenario). ³²
• Got rejected by the University of Southern California (same scenario). ³³
• Got rejected by Tufts University (same scenario). ³⁴
• Got rejected by Stanford University Code In Place mentoring application. ³⁵
• Completed the EPAM Systems Data Software Engineering course (3 months) in 1 week. ³⁶

P.S.: Throughout the month, I applied to various programs.

May

• Interviewed with EPAM Systems but got rejected. Created a bunch of tutorials, compiled them into a playlist, and uploaded them to YouTube. ³⁶
• Wrote my first short story based on a true life story: "The Poor Eyesight." ³⁷
• Became interested in 30 papers shared by Ilya Sutskever with the tweet: "If you really learn all of these, you'll know 90% of what matters today." ³⁸
• Read the book "Meta Learning - How To Learn Deep Learning And Thrive In The Digital World" by Radek Osmulski and wrote my own short analysis. ³⁹
• Created my first personal webpage, inspired by Greg Brockman's page. ⁴⁰
• Developed an interest in the Rust programming language and built a ChatGPT Rust Desktop App. ⁴¹
• Decided against participating in Work & Travel and chose to focus on building projects instead.
• Applied to the IES program in Berlin, Germany. here

P.S.: Throughout the month, I applied to various programs.

June

• Received a rejection email from Y Combinator; failed Y Combinator for the first time. ⁴²
• Applied to Buildspace and Night & Weekends Season 5, and got accepted. ⁴³
• Won Jacket (merch) from TruthSuite (YC W23). ⁴⁴
• Started my internship at HeadOn as a GenAI Research Scientist, engaging in weekly discussions on various papers with peer researchers. ⁴⁵
• Founded Open Community, an experimental community inspired by a tweet from Joanna Maciejewska. ⁴⁶
• Won the Buildspace Buddy Pass Challenge, securing coverage for flights and lodging for the IRL event from August 2nd-4th in SF, CA. ⁴⁷
• Worked on CoMedAI during the Buildspace and Night & Weekends Season 5 programs. ⁴⁸
• Accepted into Amazon Startups.
• Attended the KOR-UZ Youth Entrepreneurship Camp and won the most prestigious prize: a camera that takes and prints photos instantly. ⁴⁹
• Won a Kahoot game; the prize was dinner with students from Lucid Motors, Mercedes-Benz, Meta, and a Stanford undergraduate. ⁵⁰
• Cut my long hair. ⁵¹

P.S.: Throughout the month, I applied to various programs.

July

• Finished the next version of CoMedAI and successfully completed the Buildspace, Night & Weekends Season 5 program. ⁵², ⁹
• Built MeWell AI, a mobile app for mental wellness, and won 3rd place. ⁵¹, ⁹
• Joined the Headstarter Software Engineering Fellowship. ⁵³
• Was selected by the Admissions Committee for the 2024 Harvard Project for Asian and International Relations (HPAIR) but couldn't apply for the scholarship, so I didn't attend. ⁵⁴
• Integrated AI voice into Langflow to build AI agents with voice, reducing build time from 15 seconds to 10 seconds. ⁵⁵, ⁹

P.S.: Throughout the month, I applied to various programs.

August

• Received a rejection from the USA embassy and couldn't obtain my visa, preventing me from attending the Buildspace IRL event. ⁵⁶
• Built five AI-powered projects in five weeks during the Headstarter Software Engineering Fellowship, including pitching them. ⁵³, ⁹
• Created MonkeytypeAI, an AI-powered version of Monkeytype, and won a PS5. ⁵⁷
• Selected for the Huawei Seeds For The Future program; met Mohamed Madkour and other inspiring individuals, but we failed in the second round. ⁵⁸, ⁵⁹
• Rebuilt CoMedAI, introducing CoMed 2.0 (powered by CNN and NLP models). ⁹
• Started my fourth year of studies at New Uzbekistan University. ⁶⁰
• Began reading "Zero to One" by Peter Thiel. ⁶¹

P.S.: Throughout the month, I applied to various programs.

September

• Submitted a video for the IES program (task phase, 2nd round) in Berlin, Germany. ⁶²
• Completed my GenAI Research Scientist internship at HeadOn. My team reviewed around 30 papers. I recorded and uploaded some lectures to YouTube. ⁴⁵
• Presented my paper at the DKU 2024 Conference in Almaty, Kazakhstan. It was my first industry speech. Met Serik Beimenbetov and other esteemed professors. Traveled, filmed stories, and posted them on YouTube. ⁶³, ⁶⁴
• Recognized as a National Finalist in the CAREC University Startup Generator 2024 (USG2024). ⁶⁵, ⁹
• Joined The Earth Prize as a mentor. ⁶⁶
• Joined Moonshot Pirates as a mentor. ⁶⁷
• Joined AI/ML API as a mentor. ⁶⁸
• Listed all 42 of my applications on Patreon. here, ⁶⁹
• Started researching how to optimize AlphaFold using Quantum Gates. ⁷⁰
• Accepted but couldn't attend the Hack the North hackathon in Canada. here
• My first tweet received over 90K views. ⁷¹

P.S.: Throughout the month, I applied to various programs.

October

• Published my first paper online with Springer Nature. It is indexed in Scopus. ⁶⁰
• Won the NASA International Space Apps Challenge with the project StoryAI. ⁷², ⁹
• Became the FIRST Regional Ambassador for AI/ML API in Central Asia. ⁶⁸
• Received the first invitation for a Skype interview for the IES program in Berlin, Germany. here
• Started writing comprehensive, step-by-step tutorials on building AI-powered real-world projects and integrating various tools. ⁶, ⁹
• Built PaperAI, ranked in the TOP 100. Won a ticket to the IBM TechXchange Conference. ⁹
• Personally invited by Mikhail Kalendarev to Unicorn Pitches 2024. ⁷³
• Met and spoke with Andrii Moroz. ⁷³
• Created my first project using ThreeJS. ⁹, ⁷⁴
• Developed an open-source Loom video downloader for users without a premium subscription. ⁷⁵, ⁹
• Submitted my Knight-Hennessy Scholarship application. here

P.S.: Throughout the month, I applied to various programs.

November

• Stopped working on optimizing AlphaFold using Quantum Gates. It was too complex. ⁷⁰
• Started researching: Code optimization for STM-32 f103/STM-32 F407 Discovery Time and Memory and ASCON: Lightweight Cryptography. ⁷⁶, ⁹
• Applied to Y Combinator for the second time with my co-founder @Wei B Tan. Our startup: PaperAI 2.0 - The Open Source Collaborative AI Research Platform. ⁷⁷
• Started reading "The Pathless Path" by Paul Millerd. here
• Received a second invitation for a Skype interview for the IES program in Berlin, Germany. here
• Officially launched Open Community. ⁴⁶, ⁷⁸
• Released the world's first AI startup studio album: Open Community - I AM STARTUP. ⁷⁹
• Hosted a giveaway of 1 trillion AI/ML API tokens for the official launch of Open Community.
• Posted a video announcing I was quitting the game, expecting it to go viral. It did go extremely viral! ⁸⁰
• Increased my streaming sessions on Twitch, building projects live. ⁸
• Returned to Topmate to break records. Made all my services free to accelerate the process, aiming to be featured on Times Square. ⁸¹
• Selected for the Harvard Project for Asian and International Relations (HPAIR) 2025. Had an interview but couldn't secure the scholarship again due to a biased decision. ⁸²
• Ranked as the #1 undergraduate student with a research paper published by Springer Nature and indexed in Scopus at New Uzbekistan University. ⁶⁰
• Created AI Coding Interviewer from scratch, inspired by Headstarter. Wrote the best tutorial on it. ⁹, ⁸³, ⁸⁴
• Failed the DAAD application. ⁸⁵, [neuro](#neuroscience)
• My tutorial was featured in the Clerk Auth newsletter. ⁸⁶
• My tutorial was reposted on X (Twitter) by @CodeNewbies, reaching 151K followers. ⁸⁷
• Applied to the Young Leaders Fellowship, Global Program. (currently in the interview phase). here

P.S.: Throughout the month, I applied to various programs.

December

• Failed Y Combinator for the second time. ⁸⁸
• Finished reading "The Pathless Path" by Paul Millerd. ⁸⁹
• Open Community gained popularity online. Scammers created fake OC (Open Community) meme coins. One of my tweets caused a meme coin to spike from $5K to $3M in an hour, then to $4M minutes later. Almost lost all my reputation and Open Community's reputation. ⁹⁰
• Believe my tutorials are the most interesting and best. ⁹¹, ⁹, ⁶
• Less than a month; Featured on Topmate's landing page. Scheduled to appear in Times Square in January 2025. Ranked in the top 1%. ⁸¹

Final Notes

• Participated in over 70 hackathons in the last 2 years. ⁹², ⁹³, ⁹⁴
• Failed over 400 applications in the last 3 years, including job positions, fellowships, research programs, and etc. ⁹², ⁹³, ⁹⁴, ⁹⁵, ⁹⁶, ⁹⁷
• Wrote 5 papers. One published, others under peer review. ⁶⁰
• Mentored over 200K people in the last 2 years.
• Managed everything myself, including presentations, building projects, product design, pitch decks, market research, and planning, all to gain knowledge in various stuff.
• ~~Playboi Carti finally dropped the album!~~

P.S.: Throughout the month, I applied to various programs.

My Socials

• LinkedIn
• YouTube
• X (Twitter)
• Instagram
• Twitch

Useful Links

• Patreon
• IES Program in Berlin
• Hack the North Hackathon
• Young Leaders Fellowship