Alex Aridgides (@AlexAridgides) / X

Alex Aridgides

953 posts

Alex Aridgides

@AlexAridgides

Building the AI researcher @beancanai | living in @mission__ctrl | prev MechE, Econ, & CS @georgiatech 🚀

SF, California

Joined May 2021

Alex Aridgides
@AlexAridgides
Nov 2, 2025
OMG I JUST WON THE AGENTMAIL YC HACKATHON!! Literally can’t think right now Very special thanks to the sponsors for letting me try and hack your websites (most of them were a-ok)
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Alex Aridgides
@AlexAridgides
May 10, 2025
Line for Dropout Graduation. There’s some cracked dropouts and founders here
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Alex Aridgides
@AlexAridgides
Oct 13, 2025
I made an entire operating system that's just a calculator. - Can do basic math like +, -, *, / - Cold boots in ~80ms - Composed of 500 lines of C code and assembly (code below) Any features I should add?
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Alex Aridgides
@AlexAridgides
Nov 6, 2025
I will now lock myself in a room for 24 hours and make my new product valuable, sleep, and then release it. Onwards
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Alex Aridgides
@AlexAridgides
Nov 11, 2025
For the past two days @0xEbaad, @keepaliveclub, and I went to a cabin. Didn’t actually take any photos because we were building, so I took this one real quick. Ok now time to be off X again
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Alex Aridgides
@AlexAridgides
Oct 12, 2025
Daniel Mints said yesterday to post for 60 days straight. So… I guess I’ll be showing some cool stuff soon?
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Alex Aridgides
@AlexAridgides
May 9, 2025
Pumped for dropout graduation @zfellows 👀!
Cory Levy
@cory
May 9, 2025
the largest gathering of college dropouts is happening tomorrow in SF hundreds are signed up to attend. any VC fund want to sponsor Delaware C Corps for those who don’t have them yet? also @ reply or DM if u want an invite. small # of seats available
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Alex Aridgides
@AlexAridgides
Jun 3, 2025
The X Challenge: Win $100 2x In one week (now until 11:59pm EST June 10th): 1. Gain the most new X followers. Just repost this so I know you're in and I’ll take note of your follower count (no bots or other fake means). Top person wins $100. And/or 2. Get the most likes on a new
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Alex Aridgides
@AlexAridgides
Jun 6, 2025
like a true startup founder I cut my own hair today first time took like 1 hour
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Alex Aridgides
@AlexAridgides
Jul 12, 2025
Nishkarsh @shortkingceo I got a website for u Bday gift 🥳 shortkingceo.com
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Alex Aridgides
@AlexAridgides
Oct 29, 2025
Takeaways from @SignalFire’s after-party: - a lot of cool people were there - people in SF still struggle to dance - but robots are getting better at dancing (and fighting) - no one got pushed into the pool (yet)
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Alex Aridgides
@AlexAridgides
Nov 1, 2025
20 hr YC Hackathon instead of doing Halloween stuff. Any ideas for what I should build now?
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Alex Aridgides
@AlexAridgides
Oct 19, 2025
Went to a build session (+ some soccer) with Iris today. Really awesome team!
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Alex Aridgides
@AlexAridgides
Oct 23, 2025
I made a little decibel (loudness) meter in MATLAB. I quickly found out we're hurting our ears every single day: 1. Ears don't "toughen up." Tiny hair cells in your cochlea die permanently from loud noise. Once gone, they never grow back. 2. That ringing after a concert?
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