Athena - The world's most useful AI companion | Product Hunt

HEYY there 👋 ,

thanks for taking the time to look into Athena. Athena is the culmination of 2 years of unimaginable hard work. To shed light on just how much Athena can help you, I'd like to tell you my story.

In 2020, I was a Junior in high school and I wanted to start my first professional company.

Up to this point I had tried to build 5+ companies that all ended failing horrendously.

One was VR porn and another a food truck.

The other 2 were even more bizarre.

I wanted to go ALL in.

Sitting around in school doing nothing impactful and not creating anything was traumatizing me.

Since Birth, I’ve had this unquenchable desire for creating things.

Whether it be AI’s or eccentric companies or bio-engineered organisms.

I had to create value.

Maybe it was some leftover genes that had been embedded to me by my family who were first generation immigrants and had to work harder than slaves to remain alive.

I decided I wanted to learn how to talk to people.

I wasn’t very good at that at the time and so I had figured what could go wrong while simultaneously creating value for other people.

And, so I decided to start a marketing data consultancy called APAC Media.

APAC Media wanted to help software companies in the consumer goods industry grow faster by acquiring more customers by consuming less through the utilization of AI and data-analysis.

I was so happy during this eureka.

But, I wouldn’t remain happy for very long as I would come to a horrifying conclusion.

After months and 16+ work days 7 days a week I figured out one of the most painful lessons I had ever learnt in my short life.

The lesson being building a business is the most boring and miserable experience ever. Essentially, the success of a business is the sum of it’s actions. During this time I was working FEROCIOUSLY hard forgetting to eat for days if not weeks. And, I had absolutely nobody to talk to during this period. Nobody in school understood me and nobody in my family had ever built a some-what modern business before and so I didn’t talk to anybody until a potential client agreed to meet with me.

I thought a consultancy-based business was easy as I percieved it being consisted of 2 systems. Acquiring Customers + Fulfilling service but it wasn’t that simple.

I had to learn about CRMs, I had to learn copywriting, I had to learn psychology and game theory AND BOOOOOM. This was getting out of hand for me.

After months of starting my first PROFESSIONAL business, my grades were worse than grades of people who never even went to school and my absence physical and mental was starting to be noticed by my teachers and family.

I had to find a shortcut. A way to create my goal almost instantaneously without wasting thousands of hours and sparing me from this unimaginable suffering.

After acouple of days, I asked myself: “Why can’t AI just do all of this?”

And, this would mark Athena’s beginning,

Over the years, I’ve created thousands of AI models that all solve real-world problems and figured this could be a fantastic way of creating what was in my head in real life.

Back in 2013, at 11 years old my first 2 AI models were:

An AI model that helped me hack my mom’s gmail account A Rewards-based AI model that participated in amateur Call of Duty: Ghost competitive games to help me make money in autopilot. And, so for many weeks I tried building an AI model that could do every task for me and then some but this time and energy would ultimately be wasted as an AI model is just abunch of statistics and math I needed something more. I needed something intuitive, intelligent, and self-governing.

Athena then came into existence.

Athena is an intelligent, intuitive, capable, and useful general AI model.

I taught Athena to do EVERYTHING for me. No more emails, no more asana, no more google calendar, no more looms, no more Linkedin outreach, no more writing newsletter, no more of anything.

If something could be dreamed Athena could most likely help create in the world.

And, so after creating Athena I started conquering the business battlefield.

Winning client after client and client after client and finally achieved business success generating 300,000$ in profit.

And, then I decided to pivot into AI full time and transform into APAC AI.

After months and hundreds of iterations, Athena gained no traction.

Nobody believed Athena was real. Everybody thought Athena was a scam.

But, look for yourself.

With Athena, I was able to get more done than dozens if not hundreds of people + and Athena is perhaps the first AI in history to successfully build a company.

Do you see what I’m talking about now?

The power a Human + AI have working together side by side is infinite. There is no limits to what can be created as you can see I’ve done it myself.

Athena is the future of work.

And, our species.