About Surkyl

Building the tools that let independent creators make a real living off their art.

Mission

Give every independent creator the same tools, infrastructure, and reach that used to require a label, a studio, and a marketing team. If you can make music, you should be able to make a living from it.

Vision

A world where the creative middle class thrives. Not just the top 1% of artists, but the thousands of talented producers, songwriters, and performers who today are one tool short of sustainability. We build that tool.

The Story

Surkyl started with a simple frustration: making music is hard enough without juggling ten different apps for storage, collaboration, distribution, and marketing. Every independent artist we talked to was spending more time on logistics than on their art.

So we started building. MueSync is our flagship product, a music platform that handles everything from ideation to release in one place. But MueSync is just the beginning. The infrastructure we built to power it (AI routing, identity, messaging, project management) turned out to be useful for a lot more than music.

Today, Surkyl is a small team building a big platform. Every product we ship, from NanX (developer tools) to Hyps (smart links) to Butler (system maintenance), runs on the same foundation. One codebase, one identity system, one AI layer. We believe the best software comes from a unified stack, not a patchwork of acquisitions.

We're bootstrapped, profitable-by-design, and focused on building for 1,000 paying users who stay for life — not 1,000,000 free signups who churn.

How We Build

Honest pricing

Every resource has a number. No fake unlimited. No bait-and-switch. Artists deserve to know what they're paying for.

Unified stack

One backend, one identity system, one AI layer. Products that work together because they were built together.

Rust-first

Our backend is built in Rust. Not because it's trendy, but because reliability and performance matter when you're handling someone's creative work.

Bootstrapped mindset

Every dollar must justify itself. We optimize for retention, trust, and sustainable margins — not vanity metrics.

Team

Vivin Methew

@VivinMeth

Founder & CEO

Full-stack engineer turned founder. Built enterprise platforms for years, then decided to build his own. Producer and artist — building MueSync because he needed it himself. Writes Rust, ships products, makes music.

vivinmeth.com GitHub

We're not hiring yet — but if you're a builder who resonates with what we're doing, reach out at hello@surkyl.com.

Try what we've built

MueSync NanX All Products