prasan singh

hi! i'm prasan.
i help protocols and foundations turn scattered builders into funded teams.

right now, i'm looking for my next role or venture. let's talk.
i've spent the past 8 years building founder ecosystems and community programs: 200+ events, 16,000+ participants.
over the past 3 years, i built the Arweave founder ecosystem and community in India and across APAC.
i love giving back to the community, and mentoring and judging is what works best for me. i've done 60+ hackathons around the globe, and some prominent projects have come out of them.
i love speaking and sharing what i care about, with 100+ sessions around the globe and counting. invite me to your next one.
sometimes i nerd out on security research: cyber kill chains, cyber extortion and AI in data centres.

side quests

i love hardware hacking. with my team, i built Clickoor, a Raspberry Pi camera with a 3D-printed body and a wallet inside.
for fun, i go on treks, ride bikes and take photos.
as a hobby, i run sirf.website, a small production house i'm building on the side.

intellectual reads ↗

oct '26

Etiquette 101: how to be a good guest at international eventsIndian Devcon week edition. a practical guide to international conferences, without pretending there's one universal set of manners.

how i work

no open calls. every seat is chosen. a room's character is set by the last person you let in.
three months, minimum, after. demo day is the midpoint, not the finish line.
small and curated over big and full. thirty right people beat three hundred warm bodies.
everything is instrumented. who came, who came back, who shipped, who raised.

elsewhere

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2023-26

Arweave · India & APAC, incubation & community leadhacker houses, launchpad, 60+ events, a two-day flagship, run end to end.

2022-23

Zeeve, community expertdesigned ambassador programs with country-wide leads that grew to 2,000+ recurring users and 5,000+ developers in six months.

2021-22

EC-Council Institute, research leadresearch on AI in data centres, cyber kill chains and digital extortion. 10+ programs, 8 countries.

since 2020

global hackathons, mentor, judge, organiser60+ judged, 12 organised, 10,000+ participants hosted.

two-week residential cohorts, not 48-hour sprints. thirty builders a house, twenty devs and ten designers, curated hard, living together, shipping daily. dec '23 to sep '25.

5 houses + 1 stealth, drawn from 1,500+ applications.
150+ builders selected, 30 per cohort.
$10K scholarships + $10K prize pool per house, ~$100K deployed to builders overall.
alumni have raised $2.5M+.

the houses

HH1(bengaluru)

the first houseprotocol infra. BetterIDEa, 0rbit and LiteSeed all came out of this room.

HH2(mussoorie)

dev-tools cohortARlink demoed here, then closed a $2.5M seed.

HH3(bengaluru)

testing what AO could dofour days to stress-test AO while it was still being built.

HH4(bengaluru)

mainnet appsfirst apps for AO mainnet, shown live at Arweave Day India.

HH5(singapore)

champions summitforty builders, the house format taken out of India.

stealth(pondicherry)

stealth housethirteen days, thirteen builders, ten projects.

how a house runs

01

curation600+ applications down to 30 builders. no open seats.

02

the housetwo weeks of co-living, free to just build.

03

launchpadthe strongest teams carry into three months of weekly check-ins, intros and debriefs. 40+ founders so far.

04

demo dayproducts, not demos, then roundtables with investors. the seed usually closes months after.

what came out

ARlink, permaweb deploys, $2.5M seed (HH2).
BetterIDEa, the IDE for AO, featured on arweave.org (HH1).
0rbit, decentralised oracle for AO (HH1).
LiteSeed, DePIN for permaweb uploads (HH1).
20+ still building: aoVest, FundARs, Convergent, Sentio, Veritas, Hagrid, AOLearn, Ctrl Play, Anon.

what friends and founders say

ankush, BetterIDEa (HH1)prasan was a mentor at my university hackathon and told me to just start building something and participate. so i did, and got selected into the first cohort.went from the house into the launchpad. BetterIDEa was later acquihired by Forward Research.
nischal, ARlink (HH2)i used to watch reels of people working from the mountains. at the hacker house, that's exactly what i got to do.pivoted to ARlink in the launchpad, demoed it to the ecosystem lead, then raised a $2.5M seed.
parth, builderusually in hackathons you spend half the time learning what's going on. here the cookbook and the challenges got you up to speed really quickly.found Arweave India through the AO launch, came in through the challenges.
manishi, 0rbitthe push Arweave gave me was a life-changing point for me.joined Hacker House 2 and built a project in three days with Parth. 0rbit was acquired a few months later.

the work between the houses: a launchpad that carries teams after demo day, a two-day flagship, city debriefs that keep momentum warm, and the rituals off the clock.

200+ events with 16,000+ participants, and more than half of everyone who registers actually shows up.
40+ founders through the launchpad.
4,000+ builders reached on the debrief tours.
349+ in the room at Arweave Day India.
100+ speaker sessions on stages worldwide.

the launchpad

the houses and the launchpad were never two programmes. they were one funnel: the strongest teams out of every house carried straight into three months of structured follow-through, because demo day is the halfway point.

intake

best of the housesno open call. the teams that shipped hardest in the residency got the seat.

3 months

structured follow-upweekly check-ins, intros, debriefs. the unglamorous part nobody runs.

outcome

products, not demosprojects harden into things people use. ARlink is the loudest example.

then

follow-on fundingthe round closes months after the applause, because someone stayed in it.

the whole system, end to end. a builder first meets us at a city debrief or a side event, levels up through a bootcamp and open challenges, earns a seat in a hacker house, carries the project into the three-month launchpad, and walks into demo day with a product and a room of investors.

conference

apr '25

Arweave Day India"the permaweb is here". two days, Sam Williams keynote, a full main-stage program, 349+ in the room.

apr '25

All Hands-OnIndia's first web3 vibe-code hackathon, run as a mini hackathon on day 1.

meetups & debriefs

mar '25

multi-city debriefscountry-wide city tours. 4,000+ builders reached.

'25

Ahmedabad Buildstationa city meetup, filmed: the room, the questions, the after.

dec '24

The Winston Awardsyearly community awards. culture, kept on purpose.

side quests

team hacks, mid-debrief. every city stop hid a 45-minute hack with random pairs. nobody remembers the slides, they remember the hack.
Clickoor. a team built the Clickoor camera. there was also a RoboDog walking the venue.
Free Fire India qualifiers. handled the broadcast production for the national qualifiers in april '26.

off the clock

touchgrass. a full day out with the cohort, zero laptops. trails, games, real conversations.
sport & sunlight. football, frisbee, table tennis. the ritual that resets a burnt-out house.

photos in the gallery →

mentoring, judging and organising hackathons since 2020. still volunteering, most recently on the jury at Rashtriya Raksha University in august.

60+ hackathons mentored and judged globally.
12 hackathons organised, 7 online and 5 offline, hosting 10,000+ participants, plus the event tours leading up to them.

organised

apr '25

All Hands-OnIndia's first web3 vibe-code hackathon, day 1 of Arweave Day India.

2022-23

Trek The Hillorganiser. 15-day bootcamp plus a 48-hour international hackathon.

hackathon

Hack This Fallon the organising team.

hackathon

Hack The Mountainson the organising team.

prominent ones

aug '26

RRU jury · CODEARENA 3.0jury at Rashtriya Raksha University's 48-hour internal Smart India Hackathon. recommended a few teams straight into incubation.

aug '26

FinSpark Hackathonmentor & evaluator for Bank of Maharashtra's fintech security hackathon. 100+ teams online, plus on-ground at RRU and CHARUSAT.

sep '21

DivHacks by Columbia Universityguest speaker & panelist.