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Ritvik Thakur

Student founder / New Jersey

Ritvik Thakur

Student founder building AI-powered businesses

I'm a student founder in New Jersey who builds and runs small businesses, with AI agents writing much of the code. Right now that means Orbit Websites (websites and AI systems for local businesses), verified lead lists for outbound agencies, and Klippd Studio, a podcast clipping agency.

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Now

Updated

  • Orbit Websites

    Building fast, custom Next.js websites for New Jersey home-service businesses, and adding AI tools for lead follow-up and reviews on top.

    orbitboyzz.com (opens in a new tab)

  • Klippd Studio

    Setting up a pay-per-view clipping agency for podcasts: shows fund a campaign, clippers post clips and earn per view.

Businesses

  • Active

    Orbit Websites

    Also known as Orbit Boyzz

    Websites and AI systems for local businesses

    Since 2026

    orbitboyzz.com (opens in a new tab)

    A New Jersey studio that builds fast, custom websites for home-service businesses such as HVAC, plumbing, roofing and electrical, then adds AI tools for lead follow-up, review responses and content. Sites launch in days and belong to the client.

    • September 2026 rebuild scored 95 or higher in all four Lighthouse categories on mobile
    • Next.js
    • Tailwind CSS
    • Vercel

  • Active, launched October 2026

    Agency Lead Lists

    Exclusive, verified lead lists for outbound agencies

    Since 2026

    leads.orbitboyzz.com (opens in a new tab)

    Lists built fresh for one agency in one niche, so the same records are not sold to every agency. Every email is verified, and catch-all or risky addresses are never sold as verified. The pipeline combines Google Maps discovery, AI fit scoring and email verification.

    • 25 free leads to start
    • One agency per niche, month-to-month
    • Google Maps data
    • LLM fit scoring
    • Email verification

  • Early stage, started October 2026

    Klippd Studio

    Pay-per-view podcast clipping

    Since 2026

    A clipping agency for podcasts. A show funds a campaign, a crowd of clippers posts short clips and earns for the views they get, and Whop Content Rewards handles view tracking, approvals and payouts. Clippers keep ownership of their clips and the show gets a license to repost them.

    • Whop Content Rewards

Projects

  • Hackathon project

    VeritasAI

    August 2026, ReverieHacks

    A courtroom-style fact-checker. Five models from different LLM families argue a claim in three adversarial roles, pull live sources and run a citation audit before returning one verdict.

    • 122 tests
    • Launch video
    • Next.js

    Live

    Try it (VeritasAI) (opens in a new tab)

  • Game

    Hearthbound

    September to October 2026

    A free 3D RPG and civilization builder that runs in the browser on a WebGL2 engine built from scratch, with art and audio generated in code. You play an axe-wielding father rescuing his family from the Iron Horde.

    • 18 chapters, 101 missions and 88 cutscenes
    • About 8,900 generated voice lines
    • Custom WebGL2 engine
    • Deepgram Aura-2 voices

    Live, free to play

    Play it (Hearthbound) (opens in a new tab)

  • Web app

    NUERO

    October 2026, built in three days

    A Duolingo-style exam-prep app with spaced review, a 'Teach NEURO' mode based on the Feynman technique, teacher dashboards and an AI course generator that builds a course for any subject. Built with two teammates.

    • Next.js 16
    • Clerk
    • Neon
    • Drizzle
    • Vercel

    Live, early version

    Open the app (NUERO) (opens in a new tab)

  • SaaS product

    ClipForge

    August 2026

    Turns long videos into captioned vertical clips. The CLI transcribes with Deepgram, ranks highlights with an LLM, renders 9:16 clips with ffmpeg and posts them to YouTube Shorts on a schedule. ClipForge Cloud puts the same engine behind a web app.

    • Node.js
    • ffmpeg
    • Deepgram
    • Next.js
    • Clerk
    • Postgres
    • Whop

    Shipped, paused since August 2026

    ClipForge Cloud (ClipForge) (opens in a new tab)

  • Game

    After the Tornado

    June 2026

    A free 3D survival game with weather, wolves, bears, raiders, a boss, missions and room-code co-op. Built in Godot 4.6 with a friend; I led world design, story, cinematics and testing.

    • Godot 4.6

    Released on itch.io, v1.0.0 to v1.2.0

Hackathons & Open Source

Hackathons

  2. July 2026, Seven hackathon builds, July 20 to 22, 2026

    July build week

    Seven projects built in three days. Each has a demo video.

Open source

  • Open

    Open on SeaQL/sea-orm

    Implements QuerySelect for EntityLoader so Entity::load() supports .join(..). Updated after maintainer review (pull request #3213).

    Pull request #3213 (opens in a new tab)

  • As of June 2026

    Algora

    Algora showed a top-1% TypeScript badge in June 2026, alongside 142 contributions over the previous year.

Published

Five small MIT-licensed tools

Local-business utilities in five languages, each with its own tests (40 to 234 per repo), CI on three operating systems and starter issues for new contributors.

How I Work

  1. Ship fast

    I get a working version live first, then improve it. NUERO went from first build to a live app in three days, and Hearthbound took about a week.

  2. AI-native, and upfront about it

    I work with Claude Code and Codex side by side. Most of the code in my projects is written by AI agents under my direction, and I decide what gets built, review it and ship it.

  3. Honest data

    I run my own tests instead of trusting published numbers. Directory data is wrong often enough that I re-check every record before it goes into a list, and I label spec work as spec instead of calling it client work.

  4. Results over process

    Local business owners care whether the phone rings, not how the site was built. I sell outcomes, not AI.

Work with me

For a website or a lead list, start at orbitboyzz.com.

Visit Orbit Websites (opens in a new tab)