Mahdi Hotaitvain

Right now

• Deck AI An AI coach for Clash Royale ~1M signups · $50k months · 85%+ margins
• Solfa Duolingo, but for singing Coming to iOS · raising now · will hit $1M/month by EOY 2027
• Rank A hypercompetitive habit tracker Self-improvement app · in development
• Antimeta A competitive Minecraft server Smash-style PvP and a skin economy you can trade in

Before this

• UMD CS, ML and theory tracks Minors in psych and business · Class of '25, finished early
• JHU APL Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab Submarine simulation on a Navy contract · back in high school
• Fortnite Played pro for a while $24k+ in earnings · that's where the competitiveness comes from

Interests

Competitive esports, lifting, running, soccer, pickleball, longevity, pharmacology, looksmaxing, product design, psychology, AI, social media, entrepreneurship, philosophy, history, fashion, traveling, and winning.

Beliefs

• speed × taste = everything
• building is fast now, so the moat is understanding your product and never getting lazy about making new things
• build step by step, on purpose. a skyscraper, not a jenga tower
• good apps don't need hard paywalls
• multi-month roadmaps are cope
• b2b is boring and dying
• consumers like being consumers
• 80% of saas has lost its soul
• gatekeeping is for people who feel scarcity
• intelligence is becoming a vanity, like strength did