Kevin Le (@xkevin

Kevin Le

552 posts

Kevin Le

@xkevin_le

Building @cladlabs (YC F25) | prev: Meta, UIUC

Joined August 2025

Kevin Le
@xkevin_le
Oct 26, 2025
Founder of Chad IDE here cladlabs.ai Let me clarify some things. 1) 99% of you keyboard warriors commenting "howd this even get into YC" haven't made an investment in your life nor even took the first step forward in starting your own startup. 2) The other 1% im
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Kevin Le
@xkevin_le
Oct 28, 2025
Sad to see this, @cursor_ai is a great product and team Founder breakup is the #1 reason for why startups fail. Not runway, not pmf, its the founders giving up. A successful company is defined by longevity, not by hockey stick growth. Thats why Chad IDE till the moon.
Kamil Ruczynski
@unable0_
Oct 27, 2025
did one of the cursor co-founders just leave?!
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Kevin Le
@xkevin_le
Nov 14, 2025
Honored to have @cladlabs featured by @Forbes Truly glad they see the vision
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Kevin Le
@xkevin_le
Nov 1, 2025
People see a familiar idea and instantly think it’s stolen 🤡 Your favorite company only exists because someone else did it first > Google came 5 years after Yahoo > Figma came 7 years after Adobe Ideas are cheap, they dont mean shit Execution is everything, im bullish on
Kelly Zeng 🌱
@npckellyzeng
Oct 31, 2025
Y r we funding cluely dupes 💀
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Kevin Le
@xkevin_le
Oct 27, 2025
Brainrot engineering is the future. Context switching is THE productivity killer 1) Every time you switch from one task to another, your brain: Drops the old context -> Loads the new one 2) You might think it’s a few seconds but the cumulative impact actually destroys
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Kevin Le
@xkevin_le
Oct 25, 2025
We just launched Chad IDE an hour ago Got so much attention and traffic that broke our website Thanks for the support 😭🙏🙏 (cladlabs.ai is back up again :))
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Kevin Le
@xkevin_le
Oct 27, 2025
Chad IDE is a revolution @justinkan strapped a webcam to his head and streamed his life 24/7 — this became Twitch @bchesky rented air mattresses on his apartment floor to pay rent — this became Airbnb. @reedhastings mailed DVDs because he hated late fees — this became Netflix.
Clad Labs - Intelligent Development Environment
From cladlabs.ai
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Kevin Le
@xkevin_le
Sep 9, 2025
We got into YC! From a Tahoe ski-trip convo → “let’s build for fun” → “we’ll be happy if we get 1 user” → … to Clad Labs (YC F25) We applied a week late, pivoting from another idea. No traction. No customers. We were totally cooked chat. The photo below was taken right
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Kevin Le
@xkevin_le
Oct 27, 2025
Replying to @fvderop and @peggy_wang
Tiktok, Stake, Tinder, etc natively in the code editor during the code generation - window closes once generation is done and time to get back to work Increases productivity, clears mental fatigue. A lot more work gets done much efficiently with Chad IDE
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Kevin Le
@xkevin_le
Oct 31, 2025
Replying to @jianna_liu
a YC company in current batch just solved this
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Kevin Le
@xkevin_le
Oct 29, 2025
When I was 21 my ex laughed when I said I’d start a company. He’s now increasing shareholder value by adding buttons and shifting a div on their homepage. We're both "building things people want" :)
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Kevin Le
@xkevin_le
Oct 26, 2025
cladlabs.ai
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Y Combinator
@ycombinator
Oct 24, 2025
Some of the biggest breakthroughs, like OpenAI and SpaceX, started as ideas most people thought were impossible. But the best founders stay contrarian long enough to be right, learning from criticism but staying true to their convictions and users who believe in the same vision.
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Kevin Le
@xkevin_le
Oct 27, 2025
Best decision of my life. Apply no matter who you are and what you're building. Have conviction, be contrarian.
Y Combinator
@ycombinator
Oct 27, 2025
Applications for the YC Winter 2026 batch are now open! Apply by November 10: ycombinator.com/apply
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Kevin Le
@xkevin_le
Nov 1, 2025
This is our vision for Chad IDE cladlabs.ai > Every kid growing up will learn to code — not as an elective, but like math. > > In 10 years, “Vibecoding” will be in every textbook. > > If your school isn’t teaching it, it’s already behind. Gen Z already lives
EA Agent (iMessage Group Chats)
@chorus_EA
Nov 1, 2025
Should Vibe Coding be taught to every kid in school?
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