Kunal Sindhi

🏆 1st Place — Ask the Alert Congratulations to Karthik Manoharan for taking home the top spot at the AI Agents Waterloo Voice Hackathon 2026! sponsored by @smallest_AI .ai and @RunAnywhereAI (YC W26) His submission earned the highest score across both AI Agent and human judges — and it's easy to see why. Ask the Alert transforms static emergency broadcast messages into real-time, two-way voice conversations. During a tornado warning, instead of staring at a screen, you can ask out loud: "Should I evacuate?" "What about my pets?" "I'm in a high-rise — what do I do?" — and get an answer in seconds. What blew our judges away wasn't just the idea. It was the execution: ✅ Fully offline-capable — the entire voice pipeline (speech-to-text, LLM inference, text-to-speech) runs on-device via RunAnywhere (YC W26), so it works even when cellular networks are overwhelmed during a disaster ✅ Custom safety guardrails to catch dangerous model hallucinations in life-critical scenarios ✅ Production-quality Swift + TypeScript code with a hybrid RAG system for real-time + offline data This is exactly the kind of project that makes a hackathon worth running — ambitious, technically rigorous, and genuinely life-saving potential. …s-waterloo-voice-hackathon.replit.app/winners/ask-th…

.@RunAnywhereAI makes it easy for app developers to run AI models directly on phones and edge devices — fast, private, offline — with a single SDK and a dashboard to manage everything across user devices. Congrats on the launch @sanchitmonga22 and @ShubhamMal72313! ycombinator.com/launches/PFB-r…

Forget Ivy League degrees or "perfect" resumes. The real secret to getting into @ycombinator ? Becoming a top 0.6% viewer on their YouTube channel. I watched 47 videos this year. Got roasted in my Wrapped for it. And now? @RunAnywhereAI is backed by YC 🤷‍♂️ (Okay, fine – it also took 5 applications, pivoting ideas, switching cofounders, and learning from every rejection. But the YouTube part is underrated.) We’re building the default way to run AI on the edge, anywhere. Check it out: runanywhere.ai Try the apps: Android: play.google.com/store/apps/det… iOS: apps.apple.com/us/app/runanyw… If you're from a "non-traditional" background – no fancy degrees, no connections, just hustle... this one's proof it can happen. Keep building. #YC #YCombinator #AI #Startups