I started coding at 13 because I needed money to help my family. That was the whole reason.

No CS degree. No team. No funding. Just me in Addis Ababa, building things and hoping they’d work.

My cofounder Alazar Solomon and I shipped 7 products. Got into Founders Inc in San Francisco.

But every single product taught me the same thing:
The ops layer will kill you before your idea ever gets the chance to.

We were spending 60 hours a week on outreach, invoices, content, finance, customer support — things that had nothing to do with why we started building in the first place.

And I kept meeting other founders with the same problem. Especially AI founders.

Building fully automated products for their customers. Running their own companies completely manually.

That irony broke my brain.

So we built RAVN.
An AI-native OS for AI-native companies. Every function of your business runs autonomously. You approve the 4 decisions a day that actually need a human.

My cofounder Alazar Solomon and I built this because I needed it. Because my dad needed me to need it.

If you’re building an AI-native company in 2026, this was made for you.

RAVN

Now this is what you call a gem of a launch video 🔥

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I’ve been really enjoying Claude chat (for scripts) with Higgsfield (using Seedance for video generation)

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I wanna give a shoutout to this Amharic youtube channel .. the creator clearly puts a lot of effort into researching each video, and the documentaries are genuinely top notch.

A lot of the content focuses on exposing scams and real issues, which makes it even more impactful.

I really appreciate seeing informative local channels like this .. it’s rare to find this level of content made for our audience 🔥

YouTube channel: link

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POV: you made a whole animated movie just to promote your product 😭

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Sneak peek of the full video 👀

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AI showed up before I ever had to use Java 😁 .. not that I wanted to… but I always tot that day would come

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I had this idea to build those annoying comment bots you see everywhere ... but instead of promoting some AI OF or treading channels, they’d promote my channel 😁

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FYI, it’s gonna be my face .. not some weird pic for the bot. I’m sure people will appreciate it, admire it, or even be attracted to it.

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This is the animated video ad I made for my boilerplate 🔥

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Apparently Windsurf is actually pretty good 👀

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Some people have failed more times than I’ve even tried.

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Kiro might actually be the dumbest coding agent I’ve used so far fr 😭🤦‍♂️

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wdt ??

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didn’t know yall were this rich ... should i send the buy me a coffee link or the gofundme 😁

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Wild take

If your company doesn’t provide subscriptions for AI coding tools like Cursor, Claude Code, or Codex … quit 😁

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