Student founders life is depressing need your guidance please 🙏🏻
Hi, I am Ritu, 17 y/o first year student of Data Science. I've been suffering from a lot these days which is very difficult to manage at such a young age. I am the founder and CEO of Miniclay AI - a platform for automated model fine-tuning where our agents handle every task from base model selection , preparing datasets, cleaning datsets(both images and texts) and running training sessions on infras so users get final model ready to push on HF, Sothis is what i am building with my co-founder tejas, Ik this seems something interesting but we are struggling a lot to build this product and launch, since we are just students we don't have any capital to put in building, like buying tools for development (claude, supabase, etc), I had my savings which i spent on a launch video but unfortunately that video editor was a scammer and didn't deliver expected results and aint refunding back, no we are surviving on free things, idk how long we can manage to run this, now you guys will tell that you should apply for funding or just get some credits free for startups, look bro we ain't form fancy bg, not a Harvard, Stanford drop out not an ex-google , open ai employee just two students risking their career and life because we ain't getting enough time to even manage our collage studies i got 6.4 CGPA no company's gonna hire me, no support nothing so confused almost feeling an emotional break out because we have to be prepared for future because we will have families to feed, may be this will sound something like drama queen behaviour but we aren't experienced and mature enough to handle all this stuff need some guidance what we should do, and we cant drop this project and aim to do this in future after we have a secure job because at that time ai will be more advance and tools like ours will be present in market, so confused and overwhelmed need help !! I don’t need your money only I ask is your guidance my elder bro/sis tell me how’d I mange this stuff
Posted May 11, 2026, 5:14 AM UTC