Cobay

Cobay creates real-world spaces and digital infrastructure for AI builders to meet, exchange ideas, and form meaningful collaborations.

I co-founded Cobay on May 20, 2026. The project grew from a simple observation: building tools has become dramatically easier, but finding the right collaborators and community remains difficult.

My Role

My work spans both the physical and digital sides of the community:

• Founder meetups — organizing offline events that connect founders, engineers, and product builders.
• Website development — building and maintaining Cobay’s public presence.
• Product engineering — developing the platform that helps events, people, and community activity remain connected beyond a single meetup.

What We Are Building

Cobay is designed around three layers:

1. Real rooms where builders can share unfinished work and meet potential collaborators.
2. Local communities that connect founders, technical talent, and product teams.
3. A lasting archive and product layer that carries useful connections beyond each event.

The central product lesson is that software cannot create trust by itself. It can, however, reduce the friction between meeting someone and building something together.

Read the story behind the project in You Can’t Build a Community with Code Alone.