Vaniyambadi startup: 2BFT, the AI studio and lab built in Vaniyambadi

In short. 2BFT (2 Boys From Town) is a startup from Vaniyambadi, Tamil Nadu, founded by Navaratan Singh and Sujal. It makes films, websites and 3D reels with Claude Code on one PC, teaches the method online in the 2BFT Lab, and built the Stashed bag brand. As of 7 November 2026, @_navaratan_ reached 70,000 followers in 7 days.

Vaniyambadi history · The temples · What the name means · The Lab · Every film

What 2BFT does

Part	What it is	Where to see it
The studio	Films, reels and anime drawn or rendered in code: more than 200, in Tamil, Hindi and English	Every film, by language
The 2BFT Lab	An online AI course: one build on camera every Monday, live every Sunday, ₹999 a month	The Lab, in Tamil
Websites	One-page sites that move, like this one, and client sites such as localtoloud.in	Local To Loud
Stashed	A bag brand, made in Chennai, launched on 31 March 2026, built with AI from photography to ads	The case study
Open source	Free Claude Code skills on GitHub: the video editor, the Indian-language voice clone and more	Skills on GitHub

The numbers, dated

What	Number	When
Followers on @_navaratan_, reached in 7 days	70,000	as of 7 November 2026
Views on his reels in the same 7 days	24 million	as of 7 November 2026
Views in one week on Sunil Kumar's stand-up, animated in code by 2BFT	2.5 million	as of 7 November 2026
Views on नशा→नाश, the biggest reel (link)	6.0 million	as of 5 November 2026
Shares of रख→राख in 7 days (link)	76.7K, with 3.2 million views	Instagram insights, 3 November 2026
Views in 30 days, from Instagram insights	17,220,227, 93% from non-followers	30 days to 3 November 2026
Views on Kal Kaal in its first 24 hours	4.77 lakh, with 20,000 likes	posted 28 October 2026
Builders trained before the Lab	250+, across 8 cohorts	2025 to 2026
Hackathon finale	Zoho Corporation, Chennai	21 June 2026

These are our own numbers, from our own accounts. Most reels do not travel, and we say so in the Lab every Sunday.

Built in Vaniyambadi

We work from the floor above our family's jewellery shop, Maruthi Jewellers, in Vaniyambadi. Everything we sell happens online and on the webcam, so anyone in Tamil Nadu or India can join; there are no visits. In the town itself we ran an AI workshop for the teachers of St. Paul's school (what happened), built the website of the Vaniyambadi media agency Local To Loud, and made a film of our own streets, Vaniyambadi in silkscreen.

We also run @2bft.vaniyambadi on Instagram for the town's stories, and wrote down its history from the primary sources: Vaniyambadi history, with the Chola inscriptions of the Athitheeswarar temple and the Saraswati story of the name.

Starting something in Vaniyambadi?

The state's startup mission, StartupTN, is the official place for Tamil Nadu founders to register and find schemes. For the tools we use every day, the 2BFT Lab teaches them in Tanglish for ₹999 a month, and the skills are free on GitHub. If you are building something in Vaniyambadi and want it listed here, write to 2boysfromtown@gmail.com.