HRG Fall 2025

Da Nang, Vietnam

November 1st – 30th, 2025

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Residents

Alex Nguyen

Alex Nguyen

Multiple AI apps ~$35k MRR; runs a large TikTok growth hacking community; currently building Cursor for TikTok marketing.

Ho Chi Minh City

Rob Hallam

Rob Hallam

Working with Tibo Maker on a Cursor for X; $200k ARR growing fast.

UK

Brian Shin

Brian Shin

Building Once; previous apps $700k ARR and $50k ARR respectively; raised over $15M venture. +1 Kim.

Seoul

Lilian

Lilian

Building Brainpower; awesome energy, hacker & community builder; training to be a BJJ world champ 🤯

NY

Thomas Sanlis

Thomas Sanlis

Building PH competitor Uneed for the last 6 years; started gaining traction in the past year; large community of indie hackers.

France

Miles Feldstein

Miles Feldstein

Prev co-founded HyperWrite (raised $5.2M); now building Vost, a Loveable for creators to build cookie-cutter genAI apps; partnered w/ the yeti guys from TikTok w/ over 1.2M followers.

NY

Ayush Soni

Ayush Soni

21yo with 5 exits; $450k+ ARR across multiple SaaS; building revid.ai and a portfolio of other AI apps; top 100 Shopify plugin authors in the world.

Goa, India

Josef Büttgen

Josef Büttgen

Building Setter; him and his gf Mellie have been in the Bali indie scene for a long time; great vibes.

Bali / Germany

Fai Fai

Fai Fai

Former VC in Thailand who ran a venture studio in Bangkok; building Beluga, Cursor for people learning how to code.

Bangkok / SF

Hassan Bazzi

Hassan Bazzi

Serial technical founder w/ 2 exits; building Fload, AI employees for mobile apps. +1 Kira King Kong.

Lebanon / Michigan / Copenhagen

Mentors

David Zhang

David Zhang

Prev company, Amity, is worth >$500M. Raised $4M for Duet. World-class AI eng & serial founder.

SF

Steve Peak

Steve Peak

Formerly built & sold codecov.io to Sentry as a solo founder for $10M. World-class AI eng & serial founder.

Colorado

Daniel Nguyen

Daniel Nguyen

Rockstar Vietnamese indie hacker. Founder of BoltAI, the best AI app for Mac.

Vietnam

Alex Reibman

Alex Reibman

Serial venture-backed founder & AI eng; formerly co-founder of AgentOps; now investing via Agent Fund and building AI experiments.

SF

Hosts

Travis Fischer

Travis Fischer

Founder of Agentic. 2 exits. Prev HF0, Microsoft, and Amazon.

NY

Tony Dinh

Tony Dinh

Making over $2M ARR solo while building typingmind.com and devutils.com.

Vietnam

Minh-Phuc Tran

Minh-Phuc Tran

Built 8 startups in 12 months • Sold 3/8 startups • Building vibingbase.com.

Vietnam

David Park

David Park

Built Raya & Kippo and then 120 other apps you've never heard of because they failed.

LA

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