Marl StudioAbout
A small studio that makes manga and games.
We make and own our stories and games, and build our own AI tools so a tiny team can make them fast. The tools are free. The stories and games are the business, and every post shows us which hooks and characters people watch to the end.
Why the name.
Marl is the clay and lime that farmers worked into their fields so the ground stayed good for a generation. That is the job here. Every story, game and tool leaves the ground a little better for the next one.
Some of that is code. ashlar and Hull are foundations we wrote once and build on again: the video editors share one, the games share the other. Some of it is characters: Kai, Aoi and their daughter carry over from one episode to the next. Some of it is knowledge. Marl GTM keeps the numbers from every post, so the next launch starts from the hooks and formats that worked.
Himanshu, 21, Gurugram
Who is behind it.
One person for now. He has shipped more than 200 projects, studied computer science at NIT Kurukshetra, and left in 2024 to start a company. He is autistic and has ADHD, and says so: he is all in while a problem is hard, which suits a studio where every story and game is a new one.
Aug 2026 to now
Marl Studio, founder
Full time. Kai’s Little Family, two games, and the tools and engine they’re made with.
Mar to Aug 2026
Elip AI (YC W25), software and AI
Sales and career agents on WhatsApp with long-term memory, and the scraping and search behind them.
Dec 2024 to Dec 2025
AuraX, CTO and AI researcher
Image models for fashion and product brands. Closed deals with Mensa Brands, Aditya Birla Fashion and TTK Healthcare. On one kidswear brand our images got a 3% click-through rate, against 1.5% for studio shoots.
Dec 2023 to Feb 2025
SynthAILabs, founder
Free AI-made learning material, built around projects. A community of 11,000 students.
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