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13-Year-Old Solo Founder Ships Security Suite and Dev Tools
Anmol Kumar, 13, runs Akhouri Systems alone, shipping ATLOCK security suite with NTFS-level file locking, a multi-tab text editor, and image processing tool. All software is offline, open-source on GitHub, and built with no funding or team. Kumar says he builds to fix annoyances himself rather than waiting for others.
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The story is more about youthful ambition than technical novelty — NTFS ACL manipulation and offline encryption are well-trodden ground, but the solo execution at 13 is noteworthy.
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I'm 13, Solo Founder & CEO of Akhouri Systems. No team, no backend, no funding — just a laptop. →
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