India, Dec. 31 -- A 16-year-old tech founder has called out a customer for bullying and threatening him over what he claims was a simple misunderstanding. Indian-origin Canada-based entrepreneur Om Patel said that the customer began to threaten him after facing a login issue, even though the issue was fixed immediately.

Om Patel is the Indo-Canadian founder of BigIdeasDB. In a September 2025 interview with Indieniche, the 16-year-old had described his startup as "a platform that helps entrepreneurs and founders discover validated startup ideas by analyzing real user complaints from G2 reviews, App Store reviews, and Reddit threads."

Patel learned to code at the age of 12, during the Covid pandemic. He launched BigIdeasDB in early 2024, ...