Startups

Some did good, many didn't. Here are the products I've built, and for the ones that didn't make it, why they failed.

● Active / Profitable  ·  ● Profitable, shut down  ·  ● Shut down

Carve

Carve

Active

Architectural renders that match what you designed. Carve turns your sketches, CAD exports, and property photos into client-ready renders. Geometrically accurate, and zero hallucinations.

Apr 2026
Locus

Locus

Active

Building the present and future of the business-travel economy. Locus partners with events to provide travel services to attendees and teams.

Nov 2025
Viraloop

Viraloop

Active

Create your own AI influencers that generate and auto-post viral content to TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube automatically. Set it up once, go viral on loop.

Jan 2026
ScreenTag

ScreenTag

Shut down

A tiny macOS menu-bar app that tags each Mission Control Space with an emoji or icon. Put a 💻 or 🎨 on a Space so you always know which workspace you've swiped into.

Never marketed.

May 2026
Festify

Festify

Active

The tech partner for distinguished events. We build and manage the TOKEN2049 Week websites (Dubai & Singapore) and the SuperAI Week site, plus projects like TOKEN2049 Badges, the HODL Challenge bot, and SuperAI Badges.

May 2025
Faceless

Faceless

Profitable / Active

Faceless.so turns text (prompts, blogs, even Reddit posts) into faceless videos for TikTok and YouTube, with captions, voiceovers, and automated daily scheduling. Took it from 0 to $100k+ in revenue and acquired slickwid.com

Sep 2024
SitFit

SitFit

Shut down

A macOS app that helps remote workers stay healthy through intelligent break reminders, posture monitoring, and eye-strain prevention.

Never marketed. It stayed a hackathon project.

Oct 2025
Slick

Slick

Profitable / Shut Down

Turn YouTube videos into shorts and reels. Auto-add trendy captions, cut silences and filler words, snap in b-roll, sound effects, magic zooms, and more.

Production costs ran too high, Remotion was still in its early days, software was buggy, and a lot of competitors were spinning up at the same time.

Oct 2023
Idea2Business

Idea2Business

Shut down

A tool that turns a one-line idea into a growth plan in under a minute, with a custom pitch-deck template to kickstart fundraising.

No real market demand. The target users could already do most of this for free through ChatGPT.

May 2023
Get Into Web3

Get Into Web3

Shut down

An education initiative to help people break into Web3, blockchain, and crypto through blogs, videos, hands-on training, mentorship, and a community.

Creating content consistently took more time than I could give while running Musixverse, and the payoff needs a kind of patience I couldn't sustain back then. The team also lacked the motivation and expertise to carry it forward, and we never settled on a clear vision for where it was headed.

Nov 2021
Musixverse

Musixverse

Shut down

A music NFT platform built on the ERC-2535 Diamond and ERC-1155 standards, with a sharing mechanism that paid the sharer a cut of each NFT trade.

Led a team of 7 core members, 3 interns, and 5 advisors. Owned the Node.js/Parse backend, MongoDB optimization, AWS cloud ops and CI/CD, and integrations (Twitter, Persona, SendGrid, Stream Chat).

It was the wrong kind of startup for us. It needed funding, network, or deep experience, and we had none of the three. Most of the team couldn't go all in around day jobs and college without enough compensation, early traction never picked up, and Web3 and NFT friction forced users to learn too much before they could even use the product.

Oct 2021
MrktDB

MrktDB

Shut down

A platform that aggregates the US SEC 13F filings to surface hedge-fund holdings and trends through interactive visualizations.

Built with Django REST APIs, React + Chart.js, Python scrapers (BeautifulSoup/Selenium), and scheduled cron jobs, deployed across AWS (EC2, Elastic Beanstalk, ECS, S3, Lambda). Also shipped the open-source failstodeliver Python package.

The team didn't have the experience at the time to build something this complex. There was a lack of communication, and people kept skipping meetings.

Jun 2020