Ashutosh Lath built Job Hunter AI while studying at Mesa School of Business. The product used AI agents to help people find roles, prepare materials and reach potential employers. It ran from September 2025 through June 2026 and reached ₹10 lakh in monthly revenue during that period. Then Ashutosh stopped building it and turned to a different problem.
His next venture, fanout.sh, maps technical learning for engineers working toward AI research, system design and machine learning. Zankar’s follow-up for this story confirms that fanout.sh generated ₹1 crore in revenue in August 2026. These are company revenue figures at two defined points, not Ashutosh’s personal earnings or a claim about the current month.
Learning what the first business could not solve
Ashutosh had been building online projects since his early teens. He chose Mesa because he wanted college years in which he could make products and take them to users. Job Hunter AI gave him a business to test that ambition: a service that could automate parts of the job search and attract paying customers.
The revenue showed that people would pay. It did not mean he wanted to keep solving the same problem. In Ashutosh’s public account of closing Job Hunter AI, he explains that the most capable people in a field often did not want a job-hunting service, while helping other customers land good roles was difficult. His conclusion was to work further upstream, helping people build the skills that make them stronger candidates.
Choosing a different customer and product
That shift led to fanout.sh. Instead of doing the search for a candidate, the platform helps experienced engineers find a path through technical subjects. Its site organizes material across AI research, system design, machine-learning mathematics and related tools and labs. Ashutosh has described speaking closely with users, studying where they spend time and changing the product around what they use.
The two businesses share his interest in careers, but they answer different questions. Job Hunter AI asked how much of the search could be done for someone. fanout.sh asks what an engineer needs to learn and practise to move into more demanding technical work. The change required Ashutosh to reconsider the customer, the value offered and the way the product earns trust.
A dated result, and the work behind it
The ₹1 crore figure belongs to August 2026 revenue for fanout.sh. It should be read alongside the earlier ₹10 lakh monthly level reached by Job Hunter AI during its September 2025–June 2026 run, not as a claim that one month represents every month ahead. The sequence is significant because Ashutosh built a revenue-generating product, decided its problem was not the one he wanted to pursue and then built again.
At Mesa, our UG students are expected to put ideas in front of real users and learn from the response. Ashutosh’s decision to move on shows that an early business result is information, not an obligation to keep the same company forever. The outcomes are his and his team’s; the continuing work is to make fanout.sh useful enough that engineers return to learn.
