🇭🇰HK AI Summit 2026 · 100 Founders Heard This
Delivered live on April 18, 2026
HK AI Summit 2026 · AsiaWorld-Expo HALL 2, Hong Kong
Openmic Session A · 11:30 AM

Stop building products
nobody wants.

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Bill Li delivering PainHunt keynote at HK AI Summit 2026, April 18 · AsiaWorld-Expo · 100 founders in the room
🇭🇰 Live at HK AI Summit 2026
100 founders heard this story · April 18 · AsiaWorld-Expo
Openmic Session A
Meet the Founder
Bill Li speaking on stage at HK AI Summit 2026
Bill Li
Founder · PainHunt
📸 HK AI Summit · April 18, 2026

Hi, I'm Bill Li.

My story doesn't start in Silicon Valley. It starts in a migrant school in Guangdong, where I first touched a computer in the 5th grade and never looked back.

Hustle wasn't a choice — it was survival. Factory floors as a teenager. Twelve-hour shifts at a restaurant door. Every spare hour spent reading computer books and teaching myself to code.

Ten years later I was leading engineering teams at some of the top AI unicorns, shipping systems used by millions.

Two years ago, I walked away from a senior leadership seat at one of those unicorns — stock options, title, and everything that comes with it — not because I had to. Technology is merely the “How.” I wanted to find my “Why.”

Today, we're building an AI product studio on a mission to hit $10M ARR — powered by a single conviction: great products should reduce human friction, give people their time back, and help them live happier lives.

PainHunt is our first product.

Why PainHunt? Because I've personally wasted 6+ months on product ideas nobody wanted. I've watched friends give up on building because they couldn't find their first real signal.

This is why we built it. If it helps one founder avoid that pain, it's worth it. If it helps ten thousand, we're just getting started.

— Bill

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Delivered live at HK AI Summit 2026
April 18 · Openmic Session A · 11:30 AM
AsiaWorld-Expo HALL 2 · Hong Kong
100 founders in the room.
🎥 The Keynote Moment

From slide deck to live demo

What 100 founders saw on April 18 — the same data, the same playbooks.

Bill demonstrating PainHunt product data live on stage — 15,977 high-intent signals, 839 SaaS products monitored
Live Demo
Real numbers, on stage. 15,977 high-intent signals on screen.
View from the audience at HK AI Summit — Bill Li presenting PainHunt with 839 SaaS products data on the screen
In the Room
Founders, builders, operators — all watching the same playbook.
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Real founder losses we found this week
$47,000

AI agent overnight bill

“Your new colleague ran up $47K and nobody noticed. Infinite loops, no cost controls.”

Dev.to · 15/15
$300K/yr

Security tool too expensive

“JFrog Curation at $300K/year is unaffordable. We need real-time package blocking.”

Reddit · 15/15
$340K

Sales commission theft

“$340K deal being split 50/50 because of one email. No CRM audit trail protection.”

Reddit · 15/15

All quotes are real — pulled verbatim from PainHunt's database.

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