Hi there!

My name is Javier, like the actor Javier Bardem, or like the president of Argentina Javier Milei.

It’s a fairly common Spanish name. My friends call me Javi. I don’t know why, but international people find it difficult to pronounce. It sounds pretty much like Harvey.

Online I go by my screen name rameerez.

I’m a 30-something born in 🇪🇸 Madrid, Spain – but I have been living abroad most of my adult life.

I’m a software guy, and I’ve been building software products for the past ~12 years.

I often don’t know how to explain what I do. Lately I’ve been introducing myself to new people as a webmaster, because most of what I do is creating and running websites. This has been working very poorly for me, and people usually leave with more questions than answers after I say that.

When they ask for clarification, I usually say I built and sold an AI company called PromptHero (one of the biggest AI image generation sites at its peak: we created Openjourney, an AI image model with over 10 million downloads and runs); I’ve also created ~30 other apps and products; and I’ve also made open source projects with over 370k+ downloads.

I like building cool things on the internet. I do what I do as a means of creative expression: I’d probably die of boredom if I couldn’t be creative. Software is just the best tool I’ve found to make the kind of things I want to create.

I have a technical background (Computer Science, CTO, engineering, etc.), and I also studied business at university, but what I really enjoy is doing creative shit. I tend to focus on design, product, marketing, and all customer-facing things.

In fact, when I work with others I’m usually brought in as “the technical guy”, and everyone is surprised when I say I want to take over design and marketing. I can make things take off and grow, and I’ve achieved exponential growth in several different projects in the last few years:

my fav kind of charts: up and to the right

Deep down, I just like solving complex problems. I found that startups are the best vehicle to solve complex problems, so most of the projects I do are startup-shaped. If you throw a complex problem at me, there’s a good chance I’ll become obsessed with it and go down a research rabbit hole until my curiosity is quenched.

Although I’ve had co-founders in a couple of projects, I do most of my projects alone (people usually call this indie hacking): I single-handedly design, code, market, and operate my businesses. I’m a one-man band. I try to stay independent, so my energy and focus go towards my users and not towards 3rd party interests, like corporate politics or VCs pushing you to artificially grow your startup at any cost.

I don’t focus on a single industry or niche. I just try to use the tools at my disposal to solve my own problems, which sometimes happens to help others solve their own problems too.

Millions of people across the world have used software I’ve built, including customers at companies like Google, Uber or Adobe. My work has been featured in top international media like The Wall Street Journal, Vox, Fast Company, The Next Web and dozens of other publications worldwide.

Javi Rameerez wearing a Brain-Computer Interfacing (BCI) headset provided by Bitbrain at Saturdays.AI Madrid @ Loom Princesa

I also love working with cutting-edge technology. I’ve experimented with things like Brain-Computer Interfaces. You can nerd-snipe me pretty easily with stuff like this.