About

About.

Dilan Kochhar

I'm Dilan. I'm 20. I build the things I wish existed.

I grew up on Long Island and live in Tampa, a sophomore at the University of Tampa. Self-taught. Nobody told me I was allowed to start a company, so I started one anyway. Before the code, I co-founded the Kochhar Foundation, a charity that has raised over $22,000.

I got into this because I watched friends — smart, capable, hardworking friends — flounder trying to find their first real job out of college. Career centers were useless. LinkedIn was a popularity contest. I figured someone should fix it. Then I figured: why not me.

I design and code everything I ship. I don't outsource the parts I'm bad at. I just get less bad at them.

A short history

  • 2005Born on Long Island, NY.
  • SchoolFirst learned to code. Didn't think much of it at the time.
  • 2022Started getting actually good at web development.
  • 2025Shipped utampaakpsi.com. First real project with my name on it.
  • 2026Launched an informal agency for Tampa Bay startups.
  • 2026Built Dilly.

What I believe

LinkedIn does not help you get a job. No one does.

Speed is the only moat that compounds.

If you can't ship it solo, you don't understand it yet.

Career centers are the next industry to be replaced.

Being 20 is an advantage, not a disclaimer.

Design is the part of the code most engineers refuse to learn.