17, solo, building a verifiable AI skills score from GitHub code, Product Hunt tomorrow: update and an ask

Hi everyone 👋 A quick refresher and an update.

Who I am: Alex (Pop Alexandru), a 17-year-old high schooler from Romania, ICYS 2026 Gold Medalist and Independent AI researcher :) I’m building AI-Atlas on my own.

What I’m building: “AI engineer” is easy to write on a CV and hard to check. Stars and followers measure popularity, not the work. AI-Atlas reads the code instead. Enter a GitHub username and it scores every public AI project on a 7-part rubric across six fields (ML, Computer Vision, Data Science, NLP & LLMs, AI Agents, MLOps), and every score links to the files it’s based on. The goal is a trusted, verifiable signal of AI skill that developers can show and companies can hire on.

Where it stands, about three weeks after the first mapping:

• #1 Product of the Week on DevHunt
• 134 GitHub accounts mapped, 53 of them in the last 7 days
• 1,683 repositories evaluated, 29,091 pieces of evidence behind the scores
• 48 owners verified their Atlas and are ranked on the leaderboards
• First paying customers, and one has already come back to buy again

Shipped this week:

• Agent projects count as AI work (code that calls a model and is built as an agent)
• Clear, published scoring rules, e.g. a missing README costs documentation points. The methodology page always states exactly what the scorer does
• Rescan a single project for 1 credit after pushing changes, and a fresh roadmap once its score improves
• A firm rule: we never rescan anyone without their consent, so nobody’s leaderboard place changes behind their back

Next: we launch on Product Hunt tomorrow (Fri, Oct 30). Any support or honest feedback there means a lot 🙏: producthunt.com/products/ai-atlas?launch=ai-atlas

For those who’ve raised for an early AI tool: what would you want to see from a product at this stage before backing it? And if this is something you’d invest in, I’d love a short call.

Try it on your own GitHub (free): getaiatlas.com/?ref=lounge