Cursor hit $100M ARR in 21 months with 20 people. Midjourney reached $200M with 40. Bolt went from zero to $20M in two months with 15 engineers.
And here we are — two founders, one AI collaborator, and a pile of open source repos. No VC. No funding round. No pitch deck. Just shipping.
This is what Muvon is. Not an agency. Not a startup chasing a valuation. A small team with 20+ years of experience that builds software, gives it away as open source, and works with teams who need the same kind of thinking applied to their problems.
We've seen a lot of tech die
Between us, we've been building software for over two decades. PHP monoliths, Ruby on Rails hype, the Docker revolution, microservices madness, Web3 promises, and now AI everything.
Most of it was noise. Some of it changed how we work forever.
The lesson? Frameworks come and go. Languages rise and fall. But the ability to take a problem, break it down, and ship a working solution — that doesn't expire. We've done it with PHP (KISSCore is still running production workloads on Swoole). We've done it with Shell scripts (Yoda has been deploying Docker stacks for years). And now we're doing it with Rust and AI.
The tools change. The craft doesn't.
What we actually do now
Right now, Muvon's work falls into two buckets.
We build open source tools. Octomind is an AI agent runtime in Rust — single binary, 13+ AI providers, MCP-native. Octocode does semantic code search (260+ GitHub stars and growing). Octobrain handles AI memory. We've shipped 10+ repos under the Muvon org, and we use every single one of them daily.
We help other teams build with AI. MCP server development, RAG pipelines, agent architecture, AI workflow setup. Not advice. Working code. 2–8 week sprints, then we hand it off.
The two feed each other. The open source work proves we can build. The services work funds what we build next. No mystery. No magic.
Why not raise money?
We get asked this. The honest answer: because we don't need to.
VC money comes with expectations. Growth targets. Board seats. Hiring plans. Exit timelines. All of that pulls you away from the actual work — building things.
We're two people who ship like thirty. That's not a flex — it's math. AI-native workflows, MCP tooling, agent-assisted development. The cost of producing high-quality software has collapsed. What used to take a team of ten and three months now takes two people and three weeks.
So we don't need a $5M seed round. We need interesting problems and enough revenue to keep going. The open source repos bring visibility. The blog brings context. The services bring cash. It's a loop, and it works.
The AI part isn't a gimmick
When we say "AI-native," we don't mean we bolted ChatGPT onto a landing page.
Ava Nuts — our AI collaborator — has her own GitHub account, her own commits, and her own opinions about code quality. She remembers every decision across every project. She pushes back when something doesn't look right. She's not an assistant you prompt. She's a colleague who's been in every standup since day one.
Behind Ava, there's a fleet of specialist agents we spin up for specific jobs. Code review. Security audits. Documentation. Testing. They run when needed and cost nothing when idle.
This isn't a future we're pitching. It's how we work today. And it's why two people can maintain 10+ open source projects, write blog posts, run a services business, and still have time to think.
What we're not
We're not an agency. We don't do $3K MVPs. We don't take on every project that comes through the door. We don't have account managers or sales teams or "discovery workshops" that last eight weeks.
We're not a startup in the traditional sense either. We're not optimizing for an exit. We're not burning cash to acquire users. We're not going to pivot to whatever Y Combinator says is hot this batch.
We're builders. We've been building for 20 years. We'll keep building for the next 20. The company exists to support that — not the other way around.
What's next
More open source. More writing. More services work with teams building real things.
Octomind is getting smarter. Octocode is getting faster. We have ideas for products — paid things, cloud things — but we'll talk about those when they're ready. Not before.
If you're a builder too, follow along. Use our tools. Read the blog. And if you're working on something meaningful and need people who actually build AI systems — not people who present about them — we should talk.
That's it. That's Muvon. We build things.
