igormartynyukblink(social media alter-ego)
From a small village in Kazakhstan to Silicon Valley.
After burning out from context switching, I built TabAI to fix my own problem. Won the biggest startup incubator of Central Asia with it.
Got invited to ODF and Founders.inc. Got a YC interview with no referral (<1.5% chance), and invited to YC Startup School with full expenses paid. First Kazakhstani founder ever to attend Afore FIR U.
I'm a 17-year-old founder who grew up in a small village in Kazakhstan. My journey started at age 9 by building a Counter-Strike trading platform. To scale that business, I taught myself to code during my 2-hour daily bus commute to school.
Later I grinded competitive programming and researched, ending up almost on the global scene. Then I founded my own hack team BlinkDevs, winning NASA and Google hackathons, and built BirdTON (12M+ users) and Traffy ($300k GMV) as a founding engineer.
After experiencing burnout from context switching, I built TabAI to fix my own problem. Launched in July 2025, we now have 20k users and won the biggest startup incubator in Central Asia. Raised $300k for TabAI from a16z Scout Fund, Afore Capital, and angels — and became the first Kazakhstani founder ever to attend Afore FIR U in San Francisco.