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In the world filled with “sibling”, the founder of Cal Eye, Jach Yadegari, stands opposite the old, old age.
Sarcastic because Yadegari and his co-founder, HEnry LangmackBoth are just 18 years old and recently graduated from high school. Yet their story, still a classic.
Launched in May, Cal AI has developed more than 5 million downloads within eight months, Yadegari says. Better, he told TechCrunch that customer retaining rates are more than 30% and the app has earned more than $ 2 million last month.
Although TechCrunch could not validate its download and earning claim, the Cal Eye Apple App Store has a 5.5-star rating with 000 66,5 reviews, and the Google Play has more than 1 million downloads with about 75,000 ratings.
The idea is simple: Take a picture of the meal you are about to swallow and let the app log the calorie and macro for you.
This is not a unique idea. For example, the big dog of the calorie counting has a scan feature of the calorie counting. Then there are apps like Snapkalori that was Published in 2023 and built by the founder of Google Lens.
The advantage of Cal Eye, perhaps it is fully built in the era of large image models. It uses models from the ethnographic and OpenAA and RAG to improve accuracy and trained in open source food calories and image databases from sites like GitHhab.
“We have found that different models are better with different foods,” Yadegari told TechCrunch.
On the way, the founder coded from food packages or through technical problems such as identifying materials in the bowls of jerks.
The result is an app that manufacturers say 90% perfect, which seems good enough for many dietors.
Teen coder and a hacker house
Yadegari is also gaining some fame for his initial success. However, teenage coders grew up with AI Copilts, he was mastering Python in the middle school and C.K, he said.
Yadegari created his first business in ninth grade and Selling it Freezenova, when he was 16, he was 16, he told TechCrunch for 000 100,000. “After separation, the schools gave all their students the chrombook and surprisingly, the kids tried to abuse it to play games in school,” he said.
The school has responded by blocking web access to those game sites. So he has seen “an opportunity” to create a website that gives access to all blocked games.
The best part? He called the website “complete science” so that the school did not block it too.
With this sale, he and the Langmack Wi -combinator watched the videos and socializing it to see a new idea with the coder crowd in X. He met Blake Anderson on X, who also became co-founder of Cal I. Anderson, now is 24, A young customer achieved notice as app coderAlso, to create chatzipt dating suggestion applications like Rizgipt and Umax.
Yadegari and Langmack started hitting the gym to gain weight and “fascinated the girls”, he said with a laugh, Yadgari and Langmack had the idea.
Then they liked one more clitch: they moved to San Francisco to stay in a hacker house while creating prototype.
But while there was two lawyers, Yadegari learned a reverse lesson. He discovered that he would like to go to college and do not want to become a classic silicone valley dropout.
About the experience, he said, “Twenty -four grinding, sleeping on the floor, actually a night, and it was a very fun time and it taught me a lot,” he said about the experience.
But he looked around. “We were surrounded by people in the late 20 or 30s all day. And I realized that if I didn’t go to college, how would life be like ”
Although he has not yet determined which university he will attend, he and Langmack are still having fun to run their company. It is now another co-founder, Jack Castillo, 20 who are running the COO and the dominant marketing, as well as eight full-time employees among the developers, a designer and social media directors.
