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Most GitHub profiles don't tell you what an engineer is actually good at.

Two engineers can have similar contribution graphs, repo counts, and stars, yet be completely different.

One spends years building AI systems.

Another spends years building developer tools.

But from a profile page alone, that's often hard to see.

So I built something to experiment with this.

Add "shift" before any GitHub URL and it generates a detailed engineer report from the repositories they've actually built.

I've been testing it on random profiles and the results are surprisingly interesting.

Try your own profile:

shiftgithub.com/github_username

Curious how accurate it is for you.

And please roast the product 😭

Most GitHub profiles don't tell you what an engineer is actually good at.

Two engineers can have similar contribution graphs, repo counts, and stars, yet be completely different.

One spends years building AI systems.

Another spends years building developer tools.

But from a profile page alone, that's often hard to see.

So I built something to experiment with this.

Add "shift" before any GitHub URL and it generates a detailed engineer report from the repositories they've actually built.

I've been testing it on random profiles and the results are surprisingly interesting.

Try your own profile:

shiftgithub.com/github_username.

Curious how accurate it is for you.

And please roast the product 😭

Most GitHub profiles don't tell you what an engineer is actually good at.

Two engineers can have similar contribution graphs, repo counts, and stars, yet be completely different.

One spends years building AI systems.

Another spends years building developer tools.

But from a profile page alone, that's often hard to see.

So I built something to experiment with this.

Add "shift" before any GitHub URL and it generates a detailed engineer report from the repositories they've actually built.

I've been testing it on random profiles and the results are surprisingly interesting.

Try your own profile:

shiftgithub.com/github_username.

Curious how accurate it is for you.

And please roast the product 😭

Hello everyone,

I'm 24, an engineer, and for the last few months I've been working full-time on building an AI startup.

The product is already production-ready. I've shown it to founders, VPs, engineers, and operators, and the feedback is usually the same: "This is actually a really big idea."

Getting here wasn't easy. I quit my job, sacrificed most of my social life, and spent months building almost every day.

Now the challenge isn't building anymore.

It's distribution, growth, customers, and scaling.

So I'm looking for a cofounder.

A few requirements:

• India only 🇮🇳
• Full-time commitment only
• Technical background required
• Under 26 preferred
• Financially stable enough to take startup risk
• Interested in solving distribution and growth, not just building products
• Genuinely obsessed with startups and creating something meaningful

This is not a side project.

The space is AI-related, and surprisingly there are still no major players solving this problem properly. The market is huge, and I believe the shift toward this solution is inevitable.

I'm currently based in Pune and moving to Bangalore next month.

If this genuinely connects with you and you can see yourself building this for years, let's talk.

DM me your LinkedIn, X, GitHub, or any social profile where we can connect.
Or just send me a DM and I'll share the product.

I'm not looking to collect connections or have casual startup chats. I'm looking for someone serious, committed, and ready to build full-time.

If that sounds like you, reach out.

Maybe we've both been looking for the same cofounder.

Hello everyone,

I'm 24, an engineer, and for the last few months I've been working full-time on building an AI startup.

The product is already production-ready. I've shown it to founders, VPs, engineers, and operators, and the feedback is usually the same: "This is actually a really big idea."

Getting here wasn't easy. I quit my job, sacrificed most of my social life, and spent months building almost every day.

Now the challenge isn't building anymore.

It's distribution, growth, customers, and scaling.

So I'm looking for a cofounder.

A few requirements:

• India only 🇮🇳
• Full-time commitment only
• Technical background required
• Under 26 preferred
• Financially stable enough to take startup risk
• Interested in solving distribution and growth, not just building products
• Genuinely obsessed with startups and creating something meaningful

This is not a side project.

The space is AI-related, and surprisingly there are still no major players solving this problem properly. The market is huge, and I believe the shift toward this solution is inevitable.

I'm currently based in Pune and moving to Bangalore next month.

If this genuinely connects with you and you can see yourself building this for years, let's talk.

DM me your LinkedIn, X, GitHub, or any social profile where we can connect.
Or just send me a DM and I'll share the product.

I'm not looking to collect connections or have casual startup chats. I'm looking for someone serious, committed, and ready to build full-time.

If that sounds like you, reach out.

Maybe we've both been looking for the same cofounder.

Hello everyone,

I'm 24, an engineer, and for the last few months I've been working full-time on building an AI startup.

The product is already production-ready. I've shown it to founders, VPs, engineers, and operators, and the feedback is usually the same: "This is actually a really big idea."

Getting here wasn't easy. I quit my job, sacrificed most of my social life, and spent months building almost every day.

Now the challenge isn't building anymore.

It's distribution, growth, customers, and scaling.

So I'm looking for a cofounder.

A few requirements:

• India only 🇮🇳
• Full-time commitment only
• Technical background required
• Under 26 preferred
• Financially stable enough to take startup risk
• Interested in solving distribution and growth, not just building products
• Genuinely obsessed with startups and creating something meaningful

This is not a side project.

The space is AI-related, and surprisingly there are still no major players solving this problem properly. The market is huge, and I believe the shift toward this solution is inevitable.

I'm currently based in Pune and moving to Bangalore next month.

If this genuinely connects with you and you can see yourself building this for years, let's talk.

DM me your LinkedIn, X, GitHub, or any social profile where we can connect.
Or just send me a DM and I'll share the product.

I'm not looking to collect connections or have casual startup chats. I'm looking for someone serious, committed, and ready to build full-time.

If that sounds like you, reach out.

Maybe we've both been looking for the same cofounder.

Sooo, the thing is I'm building an AI startup.

The product is more than ready, like production-ready. I've been working on this for a long time. I quit my job and honestly put a lot of my personal life on hold just to work on this.

The problem is not building the product anymore. The problem is distribution.

It's a B2B product, and I'm not able to solve distribution online. I've tried Reddit, X, LinkedIn, and all that. I get signups, feedback, and people saying good things, but I'm not able to find the right customers or paid users.

Most founders are busy, LinkedIn messages barely get replies, and that's what keeps happening.

Because of this, I'm thinking about moving to Bangalore next month.

The thing is, I already quit my job and burned a lot of my own money. I don't have revenue yet, so I really need to think carefully before making this move.

I need help from founders, builders, or anyone living in Bangalore.

• How much money do I realistically need per month to survive?
• Where can I stay at minimum cost?
• Food, travel, rent, overall monthly expenses?
• If I want to survive 6 months or even 1 year, how much runway should I have?
• I don't know any founders in Bangalore, so how do I start connecting with people?
• Should I even move, or am I thinking about this the wrong way?

I really need honest advice because I don't know anyone there and I'm trying to figure out my next step.

Any help would mean a lot. 🙏

I’m building an AI system that helps companies find engineers through their actual code and open-source work... not resume keywords.

For example:
“Find developers who’ve built payment systems with Stripe or Razorpay.”
It scans GitHub and surfaces people who’ve genuinely done the work.

No keyword spam.
No fake resumes.
Just real signal from real builders.

And yes ...... people often ask:

“What about private repos?”

soooo We don’t rely on them.

Because real proof of work should be visible, verifiable, and hard to fake. Open-source work shows actual contribution not claims, not keywords, not inflated profiles.

This is built for deeply skilled engineers who are genuinely exceptional in their domain..... not average 9-to-5 profiles. The kind of people who can move a product or company forward much faster than normal hiring allows.

The system is already live.
We’ve crossed 10k+ platform views, spoken with founders, recruiters, and engineering teams, and the signal is strong.

Now the real challenge:
distribution, growth, and turning attention into real revenue.

I’m looking for someone obsessed with building.
Someone curious, ambitious, and willing to go deep for years.... not just someone looking for another startup role.

You don’t need to be like me.
But you should care deeply about building something meaningful and operating far beyond average.

If you’re great at engineering, AI, systems, open source, growth, storytelling, or distribution.... let’s talk.

I probably need you more than you need me right now.

I’m building an AI system that helps companies find engineers through their actual code and open-source work... not resume keywords.

For example:
“Find developers who’ve built payment systems with Stripe or Razorpay.”
It scans GitHub and surfaces people who’ve genuinely done the work.

No keyword spam.
No fake resumes.
Just real signal from real builders.

And yes ...... people often ask:

“What about private repos?”

soooo We don’t rely on them.

Because real proof of work should be visible, verifiable, and hard to fake. Open-source work shows actual contribution not claims, not keywords, not inflated profiles.

This is built for deeply skilled engineers who are genuinely exceptional in their domain..... not average 9-to-5 profiles. The kind of people who can move a product or company forward much faster than normal hiring allows.

The system is already live.
We’ve crossed 10k+ platform views, spoken with founders, recruiters, and engineering teams, and the signal is strong.

Now the real challenge:
distribution, growth, and turning attention into real revenue.

I’m looking for someone obsessed with building.
Someone curious, ambitious, and willing to go deep for years.... not just someone looking for another startup role.

You don’t need to be like me.
But you should care deeply about building something meaningful and operating far beyond average.

If you’re great at engineering, AI, systems, open source, growth, storytelling, or distribution.... let’s talk.

I probably need you more than you need me right now.

I’m building an AI system that helps companies find engineers through their actual code and open-source work... not resume keywords.

For example:
“Find developers who’ve built payment systems with Stripe or Razorpay.”
It scans GitHub and surfaces people who’ve genuinely done the work.

No keyword spam.
No fake resumes.
Just real signal from real builders.

And yes ...... people often ask:

“What about private repos?”

soooo We don’t rely on them.

Because real proof of work should be visible, verifiable, and hard to fake. Open-source work shows actual contribution not claims, not keywords, not inflated profiles.

This is built for deeply skilled engineers who are genuinely exceptional in their domain..... not average 9-to-5 profiles. The kind of people who can move a product or company forward much faster than normal hiring allows.

The system is already live.
We’ve crossed 10k+ platform views, spoken with founders, recruiters, and engineering teams, and the signal is strong.

Now the real challenge:
distribution, growth, and turning attention into real revenue.

I’m looking for someone obsessed with building.
Someone curious, ambitious, and willing to go deep for years.... not just someone looking for another startup role.

You don’t need to be like me.
But you should care deeply about building something meaningful and operating far beyond average.

If you’re great at engineering, AI, systems, open source, growth, storytelling, or distribution.... let’s talk.

I probably need you more than you need me right now.

Hiring engineers has become increasingly difficult.

Traditional hiring platforms are built for broad hiring. You mostly find candidates actively looking for jobs, optimizing resumes, or applying through job posts.

That works for general hiring.

But when startups are building technically difficult products, traditional recruiting starts to break down.

How do you find engineers working on distributed systems, AI tooling, compiler infrastructure, kernel development, or ML infrastructure.... if they are not actively looking for jobs?

Many of the best engineers are invisible on traditional platforms. They do not build personal brands. They do not optimize LinkedIn profiles. They simply build.

I got frustrated with this and built Shiftza.... it helps startups discover engineers through verified open-source work instead of resumes, buzzwords, or AI-generated profiles.

We surface engineers already working on the technologies and systems startups care about.... even if they are not actively applying for jobs.

Technical hiring should be based on proof of work, not self-written summaries.

Would love to hear from other founders.... how are you finding strong engineers for niche technical roles? What's actually working?

shiftza.in.

 free to search

Hiring engineers has become increasingly difficult.

Traditional hiring platforms are built for broad hiring. You mostly find candidates actively looking for jobs, optimizing resumes, or applying through job posts.

That works for general hiring.

But when startups are building technically difficult products, traditional recruiting starts to break down.

How do you find engineers working on distributed systems, AI tooling, compiler infrastructure, kernel development, or ML infrastructure.... if they are not actively looking for jobs?

Many of the best engineers are invisible on traditional platforms. They do not build personal brands. They do not optimize LinkedIn profiles. They simply build.

I got frustrated with this and built Shiftza.... it helps startups discover engineers through verified open-source work instead of resumes, buzzwords, or AI-generated profiles.

We surface engineers already working on the technologies and systems startups care about.... even if they are not actively applying for jobs.

Technical hiring should be based on proof of work, not self-written summaries.

Would love to hear from other founders.... how are you finding strong engineers for niche technical roles? What's actually working?

shiftza.in free to search

Hiring engineers has become increasingly difficult.

Traditional platforms are built for broad hiring... you find candidates actively looking for jobs, optimizing resumes, applying through job posts. That works for general roles.

But when you're building something technically difficult, it breaks down fast.

How do you find engineers working on distributed systems, AI tooling, compiler infrastructure, or ML infrastructure.... if they are not actively looking?

Many of the best engineers are invisible on traditional platforms. They don't build personal brands. They don't optimize LinkedIn. They simply build.

I kept running into this problem so I started working on something to solve it.... searching engineers by their actual open-source work instead of resumes or AI-generated profiles.

Curious if other founders have faced this:

- How are you finding strong engineers for niche technical roles?

- Has anything actually worked outside of referrals?

Would love to hear what's working for people.

Seriously asking because I've been burned twice.

Hired someone who had "built production LLM systems" on their resume. Three weeks in — couldn't write a basic RAG pipeline from scratch. Everything was ChatGPT-assisted with no real understanding underneath.

The problem is AI has made resumes completely untrustworthy. Anyone can write anything now.

I ended up going deep into GitHub profiles manually — checking actual repos, commit history, what they've really shipped. It was painful but it worked. Found people whose code actually matched what they claimed.

Now I'm trying to build something that automates exactly this — search by what you're building, get matched to devs whose GitHub proves they've done it.

But before I go further — curious how others are solving this. Are you:

- Still trusting resumes + interviews?

- Doing take-home assignments?

- Going through referrals only?

- Something else entirely?

What's actually working for you?

A resume mostly tells you how well someone can market themselves.

Now with AI, anyone can generate a polished CV in minutes.

The bigger issue:
startups usually don’t need “a developer.”
They need someone already deep in their exact domain.

Compiler infra, distributed systems, AI tooling, kernel, embedded, low-level systems…

Those engineers are hard to discover through normal hiring platforms.

That’s partly why I started building Shiftza — to surface engineers through real open-source work instead of resumes.

Also looking for a cofounder who’s interested in this space.

A resume tells you how well someone can market themselves.

Not how well they can actually build.

And now with AI, anyone can generate a polished CV in minutes.

The bigger problem:
most startups don’t need “a developer.”
They need someone already deep in their exact domain.

Compiler infra, distributed systems, AI tooling, kernel, embedded, low-level systems…

Those engineers rarely show up through normal hiring funnels.

The strongest signal is already public:
GitHub, PRs, repos, real open-source work.

Curious how other founders are handling this now.

shiftza

A resume tells you how well someone can market themselves.

Not how well they can actually build.

And now with AI, anyone can generate a polished CV in minutes.

The bigger problem:
most startups don’t need “a developer.”
They need someone already deep in their exact domain.

Compiler infra, distributed systems, AI tooling, kernel, embedded, low-level systems…

Those engineers rarely show up through normal hiring funnels.

The strongest signal is already public:
GitHub, PRs, repos, real open-source work.

Curious how other founders are handling this now.

shiftza