About
Victor Cheng started coding at 11 and had his first exit at 19. He joined Autodesk at 17, founded a company at 18, and left the University of Washington's computer science program to work on automating full-stack web development.
Victor Cheng @victorxheng
vly is just the beginning.
Jun 26, 2026 · ♥ 9
Victor Cheng @victorxheng
We just made Lovable / Replit / Base44 100% free with vly. We also made free versions of Claude Code, Codex, ChatGPT, and more. Soon, you’ll see free versions of every piece of AI tool out there that wouldn’t even accept payments even if you tried. Freebuff is building the
Jun 26, 2026 · ♥ 10
Victor Cheng @victorxheng
Freebuff is building 100% free versions of every AI tool out there — starting with coding agents. We specialize in batch-spend for cost-optimized models and highly-targeted advertisements & data environments.
Jun 26, 2026 · ♥ 12
Co-Founder and CEO at vly.aiYC F24
Intro paths
Victor went through Y Combinator (Fall 2024) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
Their group partner at YC was Nicolas Dessaigne, General Partner at Y Combinator — the partner who ran vly.ai's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗
In turn, Victor can intro founders to vly.ai's investors below.