Lumos Fellows

Build a real product with AI & launch in 6 weeks. A selective program for high school & college students with 1:1 mentorship from experienced builders.

1:1 Mentorship

Work one-on-one with mentors through unlimited video calls and private messages.

Office Hours

In-house Curriculum

Learn from a custom curriculum we update before each cohort.

Videos

  • Finding ideas
  • Customer discovery
  • One-line positioning
  • MVP scoping: cut ruthlessly
  • Designing with UI kits

Quizzes

When should you use /compact?

  1. Every few minutes

    You may lose details Claude still needs to finish debugging.

  2. At a clean breakpoint

    Compact after an investigation or before the next phase.

  3. Only after merging
  4. Before reading a new file

Correct answer: At a clean breakpoint.

Exercises

For my MVP, I plan to use Supabase for sign-in and Next.js for the app. I'll use Vercel's AI SDK with the OpenAI API to turn pasted study notes into flashcards...

Readings
  • Do Things that Don't Scale
  • How to Get Startup Ideas
  • Product Strategy Means Saying No
  • Hallucinations in code

100% Virtual & Flexible

Designed to fit around any schedule. Book meetings with mentors during the day, at night, or on weekends.

Engineering Office Hours
Engineering office hours booking calendar with available video call times

After the Program

Continued benefits even after the 6 weeks. We want to inspire lifelong builders.

Alumni Benefits
  • Continued access to the curriculum
  • Future curriculum updates
  • A community with mentors and other fellows
  • Invitations to future events
  • Additional months of paid AI coding tool access
  • Continued access to Lumos product templates & internal tools
  • Letters of recommendation
  • Private messaging with mentors

Who are your mentors?

Your mentors are experienced builders who help you turn your idea into a product. You'll work 1:1 with your mentor on your idea, production, engineering, and growth.

Tim Ng
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Tim Ng

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UC Berkeley

General

Kind
Mentor
Focus
Product, Engineering
About
UC Berkeley EECS student exploring agentic AI and alignment, with experience spanning product development and engineering.

Interests

Food, powerlifting, chess, and spending time with friends

Alan Chen
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Alan Chen

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Duke

General

Kind
Mentor
Focus
Product, Engineering, Growth
About
Exited founder who scaled apps to millions of users, with experience across product, engineering, and growth and a Division I athletics background.

Interests

Running, tetris, and brawl stars

Cailey Chin
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Cailey Chin

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Wharton

General

Kind
Mentor
Focus
Growth, College Advising
About
Growth and college advising mentor with expertise in viral marketing and admissions storytelling, generating 10M+ views in < 1 year.

Interests

Overwatch, video editing, education equity, fragrances, hip-hop, and Beli

Chris Kim
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Chris Kim

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Penn

General

Kind
Mentor
Focus
Product, Engineering
About
AI/ML product engineer with experience building at Speak Genie and turning emerging technology into useful, approachable products.

Interests

Chemistry, soccer, and poker

Ola Amr
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Ola Amr

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Caltech

General

Kind
Mentor
Focus
Product, Engineering
About
Caltech ECE student and AWS software engineering intern building LLM-powered tools, with experience shipping cloud features and teaching computer science.

Interests

Pipe-cleaner flower arranging and crocheting

Sahej Bahl
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Sahej Bahl

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Waterloo

General

Kind
Mentor
Focus
Product, Engineering, Growth
About
Startup builder since age 13 with experience across product, engineering, and growth at fast-growing Canadian startups, including a YC-backed company.

Interests

Soccer, basketball, volleyball, and rugby

Daniel Lim
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Daniel Lim

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Duke

General

Kind
Mentor
Focus
Product, Growth, College Advising
About
Former Duke pre-med student and viral growth mentor helping fellows shape products, grow audiences, and position their work for college applications, with 750K+ followers.

Interests

Skateboarding, tennis, and camping

Bobo Li
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Bobo Li

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UCLA

General

Kind
Mentor
Focus
Product, Engineering
About
UCLA computer science student with software engineering experience at Illumia and UCLA DevX, and a member of Startup School 2026.

Interests

Playing sports and watching shows

Zenil Karia
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Zenil Karia

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Waterloo

General

Kind
Mentor
Focus
Product, Engineering
About
University of Waterloo computer science student and TripToGo software engineering intern focused on developer tools, machine learning, and building fast, scalable AI-powered software.

Interests

Music, table tennis, dancing, and exploring new places

Nina Chen
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Nina Chen

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Wharton

General

Kind
Mentor
Focus
Growth
About
Wharton marketing and finance student with startup growth and marketing experience. She helps fellows reach their audience through practical outreach and growth strategy.

Interests

Playing pickleball

Cade Spector
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Cade Spector

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GreySun Technologies

General

Kind
Mentor
Focus
Product, Growth
About
Duke graduate and founder and CEO of GreySun Technologies. He also runs WolframMedia, where WolframBusiness and WolframCollege have grown to 50K+ followers.

Interests

Working out and playing Catan

What our fellows say.

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Lumos Fellows is the best program to start with. I had an amazing time, learning through all the things. This is the type of program people pay to have impact on all part of their lives.

Jackson G.
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artfolio

Lumos Fellows is a great program and really helped me create a product with impact in the community. Specifically, the mentors are really helpful and can help you whenever you are stuck or just want advice. It's also great how you can ask for help from anyone in the program through the Discord server and you can create a great product through this!

Raghav K.
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Lumos was a great experience for me. I was exposed to different AI tools and I learned how I could use them creatively for innovation. I also learned technical fundamentals that gave me the confidence to turn ideas into real products and apps.

Chris L.

It was really a great program. Gave me the confidence to build a lot of new things online. Before the program it was harder to get the confidence to start building and to know exactly what tools and stack to use because there are a lot of them out there and its confusing to figure out which one is best. Overall great experience. There was a guest speaker who was really insightful, he really had meaningful experience and he gave some really valuable tips to getting internships at top startups. Mentors were very responsive, friendly and clear when I asked for help. Very grateful for everything and this program has given me the skills to build even more projects in the future.

Paul H.
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Frequently asked questions.

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Mentorship and Outcomes