Two Indian developers, Surya and Saindipal, discovered Web3 through Ryzen's Kolkata hackathon community and won an Aptos competition with ZeroMove, an IDE for smart contract deployment that scaled to 3,000+ monthly users. They're now building on Stellar.
Surya Shishkundu and Saindipal, two West Bengal students, discovered Web3 through Ryzen's Kolkata hackathon community. After encountering friction deploying smart contracts on Aptos, they built ZeroMove—a browser IDE that became the most-used tool during Aptos Winter School, attracting 3,000 to 4,000 monthly users at peak. The project progressed through multiple Ryzen programs: earning $5,000 at Aptos Winter School and reaching the final 16 teams in the global Aptos Assembly Program. Balancing full-time studies, the duo continued building driven by community support. With ZeroMove's success on Aptos behind them, Surya and Saindipal are now transitioning to build new infrastructure on Stellar.