Uneed Residency

Batch 2

Full

Meet the 13 founders of the second Uneed Residency: one manor in Nantes and one week to work, learn and build together. Different profiles, different levels of experience, one thing in common: they all want to live off their own products.

Manoir de la Plume, Nantes, France
October 26 – November 2, 2026
13 residents

The Residents

Meet the entrepreneurs of Batch 2.

Serg Karakhanyan

Serg Karakhanyan

Blogr

Built Directify and sold it, took a well-deserved break, and is now growing websites on autopilot with Blogr.

Elitza Vasileva

Elitza Vasileva

own.page

Skipped the 9 to 5 to build her own products. own.page is a personal website builder, and she is crushing it.

Venelin Kochev

Venelin Kochev

Directify

Bootstrapping SaaS alongside a 9 to 5. He bought Directify from Serg, so the week comes with both sides of the deal.

Oleksandra Lysenko

Oleksandra Lysenko Batch 1 alumni

PredictionJar

A builder exploring emerging tech, creating content and turning curiosity into products through vibe coding.

Dmytro Bavykin

Dmytro Bavykin Batch 1 alumni

DistroChef

Senior software engineer and indie developer, behind SimplePoo and DistroChef.

Emanuele Totaro

Emanuele Totaro Batch 1 alumni

Mobile apps

Built and sold mobile apps, and still ships like crazy. A star at organic TikTok marketing, and one of the best storytellers around.

Sylvain Obegi

Sylvain Obegi

AI assistant for ADHD

Traveled a lot before landing in Nantes. Building an AI assistant for ADHD, and another project that is still a secret.

Pete

Pete

High Signal

Ghostwriter and newsletter writer with a strong SEO background. He flew from Scotland just for the open day of batch 1.

Emmanuel Marboeuf

Emmanuel Marboeuf

BWorlds

Spent 10 years in San Francisco as co-founder and CTO of a company he scaled past $9M ARR. Back in Nantes to build BWorlds.

Dorian Ouvrard

Dorian Ouvrard

BWorlds

AI engineer and tech lead, co-founder of BWorlds with Emmanuel.

Piotr Kulpinski

Piotr Kulpinski

OpenAlternative

Builds internet projects in public (OpenAlternative, Dirstarter, EuroAlternative) and sticks with them until they work.

Lilian

Lilian

Indie products

Living off their own products while traveling the world.

Nicolas Papegaey

Nicolas Papegaey Batch 1 alumni

iOS apps

Indie iOS developer and former product manager, building a portfolio of apps.

Open day

Come meet the residents

For one day, the manor opens its doors to the French product scene. Come meet the residents, see what they are building and talk products with founders who ship.

Thursday, October 30
Nantes, France (address sent by email)
With the residents of Batch 2
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Optional: what you are working on, who you would like to meet.