lycfyi - Overview

Hi, I'm Yucheng (YC) 👋

AI Builder & Founder — Building tools that empower creators and communities.

🏢 Founder of Velocity1 · Co-founder of Lucius AI · Previously CTO at startups · Tech Lead at Wayfair 📍 Boston, MA · Georgia Tech alum


What I'm Building

🚀 Lucius AI$3M Raised

AI-powered platform for community managers. Automates growth analytics, member insights, and engagement optimization.

🌏 Chuhaiqu75K+ Members

The largest Chinese indie hacker community for going global. Helping builders expand internationally.

  • Tutti.so — Creator-brand partnership marketplace
  • X BoostClub — Creator network with 4M+ 𝕏 followers for product launches

Tech Stack

Languages Python · TypeScript · JavaScript · SQL · Go

AI & Machine Learning Agents · Prompt Engineering · LLM Orchestration · RAG · Fine-tuning · Feature Engineering/Store/Serving · Model Serving · Vector Databases · Embeddings

Backend & Infrastructure Next.js · React · Node.js · FastAPI · Prisma · PostgreSQL · Redis Vercel · AWS · Docker · Kubernetes

Data & Analytics Data Modeling · Data Pipelines · ETL · BigQuery · Pandas · Real-time Processing

Tools & Platforms Claude Code · Cursor · Git · CI/CD


💡 Fun Facts

  • Colleagues describe me as "Terminator meets Sage" — relentless execution with a calming presence
  • Created a hand gesture game in high school so viral the school tried to ban it — still chasing that product magic
  • T-shaped generalist who loves fusing opposite skills: ML engineering + community building, technical precision + emotional intelligence
  • Incubated 50+ projects with 14 profitable exits and 4 ProductHunt top-3 launches
  • Wrote the first comprehensive analysis of 160+ solopreneur businesses — discovered the "7% elite" phenomenon

🎭 Quote

"AI + one person = tomorrow's enterprise. The hardest part is earning that first $1000 on the internet. Once you break through, you understand how to scale."


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Terminator execution. Sage patience.