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AI Engineer · Building Lumira

Hi, I’m Gourang.
I ship with AI.

I co-founded a startup at 21. Ran it for 16 months. Shut it down. Now I work as an AI Engineer at IANMAN and build Lumira, an India-first AI content studio.

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Gourang Patidar

Ventures

What I built.

Lumira is running. The Quick AI I shut down after 16 months. Both built from scratch with my co-founders.

All products

Live

lumira.thequickai.com

Product

Lumira

Founder & BuilderLive ProductAI Video

Lumira

I built Lumira because Indian creators kept getting blocked on Western AI platforms. UPI was not supported, checkout kept failing, there were no GST invoices, and the models did not understand Indian content needs. Lumira puts seven AI models in one place and is built entirely around how India pays and creates.

Creators
10k+
Generations
500k+
AI models
7+
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Live

thequickai.com

Product

The Quick AI

Co-Founder & AI EngineerShut downEdTechAutomation

The Quick AI

I co-founded The Quick AI in 2024 and ran it for 16 months before shutting it down. We started with an AI quiz generator that got to 167,000 quizzes and 6,000 users in four months, then pivoted to an automation agency where we served 11 clients and became profitable in 322 days with no funding. Shut it down in January 2026.

Quizzes generated
167k+
Clients served
11
Days to profit
322
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About

Here’s my story.

I grew up in a small village near Indore. About 100 people. In college I chose AI when everyone around me was doing DSA and people told me it would not lead to jobs.

In 2024 I co-founded The Quick AI, built it for 16 months, served 11 clients, became profitable with no funding, and then shut it down. That whole experience is what shaped how I think about building things. The full story is on the product page.

Now I work as an AI Engineer at IANMAN and I am building Lumira, an India-first AI content studio that is live right now.

I am 22 and still figuring things out.

What I work with

Skills & tooling

My primary tool is n8n. Everything else connects to it.

Automation

  • n8n
  • Make
  • Zapier
  • Webhooks
  • Python

AI & LLMs

  • OpenAI
  • Claude
  • AI Agents
  • Pinecone
  • RAG

Lead Gen & Outreach

  • Apollo
  • Apify
  • Brightdata
  • Smartlead
  • Instantly

CRM & Ops

  • HubSpot
  • GoHighLevel
  • Airtable
  • Notion
  • Pipedrive
  • Google Sheets
  • Gmail API
  • Slack

Selected work

Things I’ve built recently.

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n8nLead Gen

Google Maps Lead Scraper

An n8n workflow that scrapes business leads from Google Maps without paying for any APIs. It pulls contact data and pushes it into Google Sheets automatically.

n8nAI Agent

Reddit AI Agent

An n8n agent that monitors target subreddits, finds relevant posts, and uses an LLM to suggest comments. Everything goes into Google Sheets for a human to review before posting.

The numbers

From The Quick AI.

These are the numbers from 16 months of building, pivoting, serving real clients, and eventually shutting it down.

167k+
Quizzes generated

In 4 months. Students and teachers using it every day.

11
Clients served

Real clients, paid work. At The Quick AI automation agency.

322
Days to first profit

From zero. No funding, no salary, no investor.

Writing

Notes from the build.

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I quit my internship at 21 with no backup plan

My 6-month internship at a tech company in Pune. I left after 4 months to go full-time on my startup. No salary, no safety net.

FounderDecisions

I validated my startup for months and none of it was real

Every discovery call went well. Everyone said it was a great idea. None of that meant anything.

FounderStartups

Why I shut down The Quick AI after 16 months

It was not a sudden decision. I watched it go wrong over several months and kept trying to fix it instead of accepting what was happening.

FounderFailure

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