18-year-olds Christopher Fitzgerald and Nicholas Van Landschoot have founded APIGen, a platform to build custom APIs from natural language prompts.

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Two 18-year-old high school graduates, Christopher Fitzgerald and Nicholas Van Landschoot, raised $500,000 in pre-seed funding for their AI startup, APIGen. The platform aims to create custom APIs from natural language prompts, catering to web apps, databases, and IoT devices. With strong community support and a keen interest from Varana Capital, the founders are currently building their minimum viable product and plan to release a beta version soon.

How 2 high school teens raised a $500K seed round for their API startup (yes, it’s AI)

With 500k funding comes a lot of responsibility. Hope they don’t mess up.

It is very nice seeing this show that you have to try and maybe it might work out, also got some motivation and inspiration. I wish them well as they take up this responsibility. Having a VC funded this early comes with a lot of pressure and responsibility hope they succeed

Sounds like a more rudimentary <a href="https://polyapi.io/" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Poly API</a>

Interesting, I think useful, but not that special. And 500k is also not that much.