Real people. Raw journey. AO behind the curtains.
(a page straight from our notebooks)
Founder of AO | The Dreamer
Co-Founder of AO | Founder of MEANET
AO Teammate | Chaos Manager
Founder of S-Nine | AO Tech Lead
In 2019, while our 5th standard classmates played "thumbs up" and made paper frogs, one bored kid (Surya) thought: "This is boring af." So he invented:
A verbal combat between two players with simple rules:
An advanced origami system that could fold into 50+ different shapes, evolving from simple 4-cup paper crafts.
Unexpected classroom hit that spawned an entire collection of paper animals.
Then life changed when Surya moved from Borabanda to Gajularamaram... After few months he discover that Sriya had aslo moved into a nearby apartment because her mom opened a beauty parlor in nearby KPHB.
MEANET is a research team founded by Sriya and Anjali in 2019 that specializes in researching various topics and crafting high-quality research papers for sale.
1. Select trending or niche research topics
2. Conduct in-depth research and analysis
3. Craft professional research papers
4. Sell to students, professionals, and institutions
In the apartment beside Sriya's new home lived Anjali, a key member of MMRT (M Madhavi Research Team) - founded in 2016 by four girls:
Their revolutionary model:
1. Acquire freelance projects
2. Distribute to under-18 creators
3. Take small commission
→ Early drop servicing with community focus
Surya secretly starts building AO without telling Sriya, naming it "airmean" (air + mean). No plan, just raw experimentation.
During lockdown, Surya dives into data formatting and compression research while keeping AO quiet.
After months of enduring Sriya's "experimental" questions and patience tests, Surya finally shares his AO concept.
MMRT rejects AO's compression concept 6-7 times, accusing it of being copied from a 1900s idea despite different algorithms.
Enter Divya - Sriya's classmate and founder of S-Nine (automation solutions). She joins forces with AO to gain MMRT acceptance.
The team works on Airtexts (a text compression project) and begins developing SHAMA, their first major collaborative project.
The trio (Surya, Sriya, Divya) collaborate to build SHAMA, marking their first major joint project under MMRT's umbrella.
AORG.in rises from the ashes with a clearer vision:
"Make tech accessible. Remove every wall I faced just to build one simple idea."
Not pitch decks or VC meetings - from playground innovations and paper crafts
6 MMRT rejections couldn't stop the iteration process
No traditional mentors - we taught and pushed each other
Catfishing, lost repos, broken hearts - we kept rebuilding