Co-founder of @straitlyai and @xynth_m | Agentic ai @Meta, Infra @awscloud | @UBC
San Francisco, CA
Joined August 2025
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hey, i’m Hashim! just moved to SF to go all in on my startup!
a little about me:
> studied Math+CS at UBC 🇨🇦
> worked on AI at @Meta
> infra at @AWS
> scaled my last startup @xynth_m to $700k ARR
> currently building @Straitlyai - OpenRouter but 79% cheaper, with my brother @Mutchtaba2
if you’re in SF (or anywhere else really), say hi 👋
looking to meet other founders, and engineers building in the AI infra and agent space
Didn't expect to go this viral! Burned $2k+ in a day on api credits. Site is now down due to insane traffic.
Today I'm opensourcing Consensus: the first truth engine built on real human opinions.
Ask it anything. It reads 10,000+ posts and comments across X and Reddit to surface what people actually believe.
For example you can ask:
"Will AI destroy humanity?"
> 61% believe YES
> 28% believe NO
> 10% say that humans are the real risk
> 1% hold other beliefs
Every % is linked to the exact posts and comments behind it.
Consensus is completely free and open-source for anyone to use
Try it at: useconsensus.io
Today I'm opensourcing Consensus: the first truth engine built on real human opinions.
Ask it anything. It reads 10,000+ posts and comments across X and Reddit to surface what people actually believe.
For example you can ask:
"Will AI destroy humanity?"
> 61% believe YES
> 28% believe NO
> 10% say that humans are the real risk
> 1% hold other beliefs
Every % is linked to the exact posts and comments behind it.
Consensus is completely free and open-source for anyone to use
Try it at: useconsensus.io
You can still run it locally using the github though github.com/Straitly-ai/conse…
Consensus has real commercial use as well, especially for founders. You can validate an idea in seconds. Ie. ask it:
"Why is HubSpot so bad?"
> 36% it's predatory pricing
> 15% say it lacks customization
> 12% complain the paywalls are sleezy
> 9% say it has bad data quality
Download the data for your agent to read through each opinion and come up with a superior alternative.
Best part is that you have the direct citations to the client leads for free
Consensus is fully open-source under MIT license. All you need is a Straitly (or OpenAI comp. ) API key for AI classification, an X API key, and a proxy for Reddit.
This was a passion project, my brother and I built during our last semesters at uni. Until now we could not afford to serve it for free.
As the internet fills up with AI slop, what real people actually think is only going to get more valuable. We want that to stay free and open for everyone.
github.com/Straitly-ai/conse…
Hashim Syed retweeted
This is JevRouter.
99% of Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Astra's intelligence, for 40% of the cost.
Hundreds of Jevs read your ENTIRE request and analyze every single benchmark across all models to match you with the perfect model.
Enjoy 30% off all frontier models
Hashim Syed retweeted
Glossed over in every success story is a period of wandering curiously into the unknown
You must make time to wander
That is where all great stories begin
The literal goat ! Appreciate everything you’ve helped us with 🐐
one of my favorite first founder calls was with @Mutchtaba2 and @Hashim__Syed. they keep shipping. proud to have backed them in LeapYear 2025
Come find us!
We just killed OpenRouter.
AI routers made $100+ million last year charging 5% markups on every dollar.
Today that ends.
Introducing Straitly the world’s first AI gateway that charges 0% markup on your tokens. No Stripe or Credit Card processing fees.
With one API key, you can access 142+ models from than 20+ providers.
Straitly auto handles handles provider failures via intelligent re-routing achieving a 99.98% success rate while still optimizing for cache hit rates.
To celebrate our launch we are giving up to 30% off your first $10k (yes, $10,000) of token spend, plus $100 in free credits upfront.
If you are an ambitious builder who's spending lots on tokens we want to hear from you!
Comment below what you're building + highest usage model, then head over to straitly.ai and fill out a form with your @x username.
Hashim Syed retweeted
We just killed OpenRouter.
AI routers made $100+ million last year charging 5% markups on every dollar.
Today that ends.
Introducing Straitly the world’s first AI gateway that charges 0% markup on your tokens. No Stripe or Credit Card processing fees.
With one API key, you can access 142+ models from than 20+ providers.
Straitly auto handles handles provider failures via intelligent re-routing achieving a 99.98% success rate while still optimizing for cache hit rates.
To celebrate our launch we are giving up to 30% off your first $10k (yes, $10,000) of token spend, plus $100 in free credits upfront.
If you are an ambitious builder who's spending lots on tokens we want to hear from you!
Comment below what you're building + highest usage model, then head over to straitly.ai and fill out a form with your @x username.
Hashim Syed retweeted
Introducing Ponder: the agentic video editor.
It’s a new paradigm for filmmaking, where powerful creative agents and humans collaborate to tell world-class stories.
We're also announcing our $2.5M pre-seed, led by Liu Jiang from Sunflower (@seedtosunflower), with @Joshuabrowder and @MattHartman.
Joined by @levie (Box), @emerywells (Frame), @JaredLeto, @CommaCapital, the @nyuniversity venture fund, @cory, @darian314, @shiffman, and many more incredible founders, investors, and creators.
Using these on xynth is easier than a google search.
Simply ask Xynth "Find me the top trading candidates from my alerts and xynth curated alerts"
And it will give you trade candidates immediately.
Ps. A xynth user turned 1.7k -> 11.7k - A 663% return!
OVER $1.5M in signals generated in 2 weeks.
All from retail traders building custom alerts on Xynth
Everything from:
> tracking whale options flow
> detecting insider cluster buys
> spotting earnings IV crush plays
> building sunday wheel scanners
Summoning Claude Opus 4.7 to build and run alerts 24/7 on top of the stock market is the single biggest edge in retail trading history.
We're giving away free access to the 3 most profitable alerts on Xynth this week.
RT + comment "Alerts" — we'll send them.
Go get you some bread ¿
Xynth can now scan the stock market for you 24/7 !
Simply describe what you want monitored in plain English.
Under the hood, we wire Claude Opus 4.7 + Python to 3,000+ live market endpoints to build your custom alert.
The workflow lives in the cloud, hunting your setup the moment it hits.
As part of this launch, we're giving free access to the top 5 most profitable alerts built so far.
RT + comment "Xynth" below to get access ↓
