matt shumer

i see around corners, build for what's next, and use my audience to shift startup trajectories.

about

I'm Matt Shumer — founder & CEO at OthersideAI (HyperWrite). I build and invest in AI products, ship fast, and share what I learn with a large audience.
Lately: pushing GPT‑5 to its limits, collaborating on AutoRL with OpenPipe (acquired by CoreWeave), and helping early teams go from zero → launch.
I also have a slight obsession with sushi and food in general. Most of my free time is spent cooking and eating.

ceo @ othersideai

hyperwrite // ai writing assistant
+ undisclosed products
founded 2020
backed by Madrona, Active Capital, Cortical Ventures, Hustle Fund, Chapter One, and others

investing

I invest as an angel and through Shumer Capital — backing best-in-class AI infra, dev tools, and agent-native products at pre-seed and seed.

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open source

shumerprompt
public prompt library
free resource for community
gpt-prompt-engineer
automatic prompt optimization
15k+ stars
AutoRL
experimental RL framework — describe the model you want in a sentence; it auto‑generates data and trains the model end‑to‑end for you
more tools @ github.com/mshumer

viral growth stories

rork
founders nearly broke
→ viral tweet
$2.8m seed + a16z
groq
unknown startup
→ viral post
→ more than doubled valuation
25k developers joined from my tweet
AutoRL
goal: increase GitHub stars
~1,000 stars in a few days
→ #1 project on GitHub

contact

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