Zyaku
Zyaku is building an AI Operating System
What Zyaku actually is now
I didn’t set out to build an “AI Operating System.” I set out to build a fairer creator platform - 80% revenue share, zero follower minimum to earn, real ownership over what you create. But somewhere along the way, the problem got bigger than “creator economy.” We ended up building out identity, commerce, publishing, AI tooling, and resilient infrastructure - all connected, not bolted together.
One thing I’m genuinely proud of: we just shipped Disaster Alert - an offline-first emergency communication system. It works even when the internet doesn’t. Local broadcast queuing, biometric auth, cached safety info - built so people can still reach each other when networks fail. It’s part of a broader “Wellbeing as Infrastructure” idea I’ve been pushing internally - that platforms should protect people, not just engage them.
The honest bootstrapped-founder stuff
• No funding means every infra decision is a real tradeoff - we migrated off Replit/Neon to Railway + Cloudflare partly for cost, partly for control
• Building solo (then with 2 people) across 10 product domains sounds insane in hindsight, and some days it still does
• ~2,400 registered users so far, live creator payouts running, and real coverage from international outlets including AP News - earned the hard way, not bought
Why I’m posting this here
I’ve mostly been heads-down building. I want more honest feedback from people who’ve actually shipped things solo/bootstrapped - what worked when you tried to do “too much” at once, and how you knew when to cut scope vs push through.
Happy to answer anything about the stack (React Native/Expo, Node/Express, Postgres/Redis on Railway), the offline-first architecture, or just the mess of building solo without funding.
zyaku.com if you want to poke around.
Hey Indie Hackers! 👋
I'm Rohit, founder of Zyaku — and I wanted to share what we're building and why.
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THE PROBLEM
Social media promised creators the world. Instead it delivered:
❌ Shadowbans with no explanation
❌ Algorithms that bury real voices
❌ 0% revenue share for creators
❌ Bots inflating fake metrics
❌ Opaque moderation with no appeal
72% of social media users want alternatives. The creator economy is growing 35% YoY. But no platform has truly solved this.
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OUR SOLUTION: ZYAKU
Zyaku is the All-in-One Creator Ecosystem built around 3 words:
Create. Grow. Earn.
Here's what makes us different:
🤖 DUAL AI ENGINE
First platform to combine OpenAI GPT + Anthropic Claude with real-time model switching. Smart replies, content rewriting, thread generation in 15+ languages.
💰 CREATOR MONETIZATION
Creators keep 80% of revenue. Built-in subscriptions, tipping, digital marketplace, and instant payouts — no third-party tools needed.
✅ HUMAN VERIFICATION
Multi-tier identity verification eliminates bots completely. Your follower count actually means something on Zyaku.
🎨 COMICS ECOSYSTEM
Static comics, motion comics with parallax animations, short animated content, and storyboard tools — all built in.
🔒 TRANSPARENT MODERATION
No shadow bans. No hidden rules. Users always know why action is taken and have the right to appeal.
💬 REAL-TIME MESSAGING
Socket.IO powered chat with typing indicators, read receipts, and end-to-end encryption.
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THE NUMBERS
📊 2,400+ creators already on waitlist
📊 5.2B global social media users
📊 $250B social media ad market
📊 35% YoY creator economy growth
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WHERE WE ARE
We're currently in pre-launch with 2,400+ creators on our waitlist. Building in public and would love feedback from this community!
🔗 zyaku.com — join the waitlist
📝 Full story on Medium: https://medium.com/@rohit.kashyap_53123/zyaku-the-all-in-one-platform-where-creators-build-empires-e60a291e8f75
🚀 Product Hunt launch: tomorrow!
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QUESTIONS FOR THE COMMUNITY:
1. As a creator, what's your biggest pain point with current social platforms?
2. Would you pay for a platform that gives you 80% revenue share?
3. Any feedback on our positioning?
Would love to hear your thoughts! 🙌
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Hey Rohit — came across Zyaku and the 2,400+ people already on the waitlist caught my attention. It seems like you’re building something pretty ambitious, especially with the whole Create. Grow. Earn. idea.
I’ve been curious about how founders actually decide what to work on next when there are a million things competing for attention. Do you usually go with gut instinct, user feedback, data, or some combination? Genuinely curious how you approach it.
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Appreciate that and honestly, I don’t think the answer is just gut instinct, user feedback, or data on their own. At Zyaku, we try to start with a simpler question what is actually limiting the product right now? Sometimes the data tells us. Sometimes users make it obvious and sometimes neither gives you the answer yet, because you’re building toward something people can’t fully articulate before it exists. That’s where founder judgment matters, but I’ve also learned that not everything competing for attention deserves to be worked on. A good idea can still be the wrong priority if it doesn’t strengthen the core product or move the larger system forward. So it’s really a combination user feedback and data help us understand reality, while instinct and first-principles thinking help us decide where Zyaku should go next. The hard part isn’t finding things to build. It’s being disciplined enough to decide what not to build yet.
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