Saidev Dhal

I founded OpenHorizon Labs. We are trying to build something in physical AI and robotics. What exactly, we have not figured out yet.

Sapient came out of that — a small side project, written in Rust, that makes hardware think, see, listen and speak. That one you can actually use today.

I ship open source as SkidGod. The largest of those projects, x0-GPT, has 39 stars on GitHub. Most of my attention goes to machine learning and robotics.

I also freelance, and I am taking on new work. If you need a full-stack SaaS — web, app, AI, or all three — I can build the whole thing. Let's talk.

I go by SkidGod because I was one. A skid is someone who runs on other people's code, and at fourteen that was me — lifting Discord bots and shipping them as my own. It started as an insult. I kept it.

What I actually wanted was the founder tag in those servers. So I learned discord.py and built my own bot instead. That is where my tech career started, and I stayed because it turned out I found it genuinely interesting.

In 2024 I was at Ellenox, running hackathons and tech support and managing a Discord community of 2,000+ members. The same year I spent nights and weekends in buildspace's S5 cohort.

In January 2025 I joined IIT Madras as technical lead. Nine months of product development and strategy, working with the engineering team and a professor to build the MVP.

Then two months at Bharat Space Education Research Centre as a def-space tech intern, on aircraft design and robotics.

Which is the short version of how I ended up starting my own thing.