Elvin Fu

Elvin Fu is Founder of CodeWisp, an AI-powered platform that lets anyone build and publish web games using plain-English prompts. CodeWisp is part of Y Combinator's Winter 2026 batch.
Elvin studied Computer Science at the University of Washington and has been making games since age 10. He previously worked at Amazon Web Services and taught coding classes at 15.
Elvin is Top 20 most followed on Scratch (out of 135M+ users) with 80k+ YouTube subscribers and won Best Implementation of Checkbook API at Stanford's hackathon out of 1,700+ participants. He built two game engines from the ground up.
CodeWisp is backed by Y Combinator and based in San Francisco with 3 employees. His games have been played and downloaded 4+ million times.
Elvin has taught 22+ million people game development online through his YouTube channel and courses, reaching students worldwide with his educational content.