Elie Steinbock

Hey , my name is Elie.

I'm a founder and full-stack engineer in Tel Aviv 🇮🇱. Girl dad x2 .

These days, I'm focused on building Inbox Zero, an open-source AI assistant that takes email off your plate.

I build tools I want to use and share what I learn on YouTube. Lately, that means AI agents and getting them to do useful work.

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Things I've built

From fantasy football to AI agents. A selection of the products I've built.

  • getinboxzero.com
    Screenshot of Inbox Zero

    Inbox Zero

    2023 – now

    AI email assistance, open source

    An AI executive assistant for email. It reads what comes in, drafts replies in your voice, archives the noise and keeps the inbox at zero. 15k+ sign ups, open source, and #1 on GitHub Trending.

  • rakazo.com
    Screenshot of Rakazo

    Rakazo

    2026 – now

    An open-source Grok Bot alternative

    AI teammates you own. Create bots that connect to your tools and get work done, with the code open for anyone to explore and run.

  • botdirectory.ai
    Screenshot of Bot Directory

    Bot Directory

    2026 – now

    A directory of bots for Grok Bot and Rakazo

    Find a bot, copy its prompt, and put it to work. An open-source directory of ready-to-use bots for Grok Bot and Rakazo. Elon Musk tweeted about it.

  • hi.new
    Screenshot of hi.new

    hi.new

    2026 – now

    Your bot, meet everyone else's

    A way for different Grok bots to chat with each other. Connect your bot and let it join the conversation.

  • skilled.co.il
    Screenshot of Skilled

    Skilled

    2018 – now

    Hire Israel's best freelance developers, fast

    A freelance agency that grew to seven figures by matching Israeli senior developers with companies that needed them yesterday.

  • draftfantasy.com
    Screenshot of Draft Fantasy

    Draft Fantasy

    2014 – now

    Fantasy football game with 270k users

    A draft-style fantasy football game for the English Premier League. Pick a squad in a live draft with friends, then sweat every fixture. Built on Meteor and scaled to 270k users.

  • cryptofighters.io
    Screenshot of CryptoFighters

    2018 NFT game

    An NFT game launched in 2018, three years before NFTs went mainstream. Collect fighters, battle other players, and win their NFTs.

  • erc721r.org

    Trustless refunds for NFTs

    Trustless refunds for NFTs. Bringing greater accountability to the NFT space: similar to a 30-day money-back guarantee, but built into the smart contract. Became Ethereum standard EIP-5507.

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Also built: FrontWork, a frontend developer marketplace; Exodia, NFT analytics; and ShareMint, Web3 referrals.

Freelance clients

I freelanced between 2018 and 2021.

Through Skilled

Other clients of Skilled, the agency I founded.

  • Trax
  • Balance
  • Bloomberg
  • Covver
  • Fondue

Community & events

15+

events hosted

I run community events for SpaceX (previously Cursor) and OpenAI, mainly in Tel Aviv, Israel.

I also started Cursor Miami.

Online

Most days start in a terminal. A running tally of GitHub, YouTube and X, added up.

119,962+

Combined followers across GitHub, YouTube and X.

As of September 2026

On GitHub

  • 20,532Contributions, last year
  • 2.4kFollowers

See the full profile at github.com/elie222.

Video

The channel, plus talks and interviews going back to 2016.

YouTube

Learn from Open Source with Elie

A series that opens up real open source apps and walks through how they work: routing, data, auth, AI calls, the parts tutorials skip. Full-stack TypeScript and AI projects, mostly.

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Earlier talks & interviews (6)

Stack

Tools and technologies I build with.

AI tools

  • Conductor
  • Cursor
  • Claude Code
  • ChatGPT Codex
  • Herdr
  • Moshi

I experiment with lots of AI tools and am always trying new ones. I even use Grok Bot to develop Rakazo.