I’m Nikhil. I built Loopvalid in the Bay Area.

I’ve worked as a software engineer at Amazon, Samsung, and Netflix. Computer Engineering, Arizona State.

I’ve built three startups before Loopvalid. Two of them died because I committed three months of building to ideas I should’ve killed in week one. The pattern was always the same: I’d “validate” by lurking on Reddit and asking friends, convince myself the demand was real, then ship to crickets.

By the third, I’d learned what every founder who’s shipped to crickets eventually learns — real validation isn’t friends + Reddit + intuition. It’s putting cold traffic against the idea and reading the conversion data.

Loopvalid is the tool I wish I’d had then. It runs the whole validation cycle — research, landing page, real cold-traffic ads, signup capture, verdict — so you don’t need to learn Meta Ads Manager, Webflow, GA4, and copywriting to get the answer.

I also build Linchpin, the open-source agent runtime that powers Loopvalid’s agents under the hood.

If you’ve shipped to crickets before — I’d genuinely love to hear what would’ve changed your decision in week one.