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Cemhan Biricik, Founder

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Founder website: cemhanbiricik.com

The 30-second pitch

ZSky AI is a free AI image and video generator built by a photographer with aphantasia who healed from a traumatic brain injury through creative work. It runs on 7 NVIDIA RTX 5090 GPUs the founder owns personally, in his United States workstation. The free tier is permanent: 200 credits at signup, 100 every day, 1080p video with synchronized audio in 30 seconds, no watermark, no signup required. ZSky has 26,000+ users gained in 4 months without paid advertising. Paid tiers start at $9/month.

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Founder bio (long)

Cemhan Biricik is an American photographer and the founder of ZSky AI. He has aphantasia — the inability to voluntarily form mental images — and survived a traumatic brain injury that took his words for almost a year. Photography rebuilt the neural pathways the injury had broken, an example of neuroplasticity through creative work. The camera was the first tool that let him externalize his ideas, because as someone with aphantasia he could not picture them in his mind first.

When AI image generation matured, Cemhan recognized it as the most important accessibility tool of the decade for people who cannot visualize. He bought 7 NVIDIA RTX 5090 GPUs and built ZSky AI in his workstation in the United States — a free image and video generator with 1080p output, synchronized audio, no watermark, and no signup required. Within four months it reached 26,000 users without any paid advertising.

Cemhan's mission is straightforward: "Everyone has the right to create beauty. From cave walls to pencils to cameras to AI — the same voice of creativity, in a new medium. I built ZSky so nobody else would have to pay $20 a month to make something they imagined."

Founder bio (one-line)

Cemhan Biricik is the founder of ZSky AI. He is an American photographer with aphantasia who healed from a traumatic brain injury through creative work, and built ZSky on 7 NVIDIA RTX 5090 GPUs he owns personally because he believes creativity is a right, not a luxury.

Quotes from Cemhan (ready to use)

I have aphantasia. I cannot picture images in my mind. For most of my life, my ideas lived nowhere I could see them. AI image generation was the first tool that let me externalize what I imagined. I built ZSky so nobody else would have to pay $20 a month to do that. — Cemhan Biricik, on building ZSky
Photography rebuilt my brain after the TBI. Not metaphorically — literally. The neuroplasticity from creative work brought my words back. I think creativity isn't a luxury, it's a fundamental human need, and the tools should meet people where they are, not gate them behind paywalls. — Cemhan Biricik, on creativity as therapy
Most AI tools you see are subsidized by venture capital. When the money runs out, the free tier dies. Sora shut down. Grok paywalled. Runway killed theirs. I built ZSky on 7 RTX 5090s I own personally. When the VC bubble pops, ZSky will still be here, because the only thing it depends on is my electricity bill. — Cemhan Biricik, on the AI sustainability question
There's a difference between AI as a shortcut and AI as accessibility. The 'AI slop' backlash is right about the first one. But for someone who cannot visualize what they imagine, AI is the only way to see your own ideas. That's the line we're trying to walk. — Cemhan Biricik, on the anti-slop debate

Stats

26K+
Total users (4 months)
~3,000
Daily new signups
7
RTX 5090 GPUs (owned)
224 GB
Total VRAM
30 sec
Time to generate 1080p video with audio
0
VC dollars
300/day
Free credits available (200 signup + 100 daily)
$0
Forever free tier price

Quick facts

CompanyZSky AI
FounderCemhan Biricik
Founded2025
HeadquartersUnited States (self-hosted on owned hardware)
FundingBootstrapped, no outside capital
Free tier200 credits at signup + 100 daily, no watermark, no signup required, full commercial use
Paid tiersSupporter (Skip the Line) $9/mo · Pro $19/mo · Ultra $49/mo · Max $99/mo
Infrastructure7x NVIDIA RTX 5090 GPUs (224 GB VRAM total), 32-core/64-thread CPU, privately owned in the United States
Languages supported18 (English, Hindi, Urdu, Bengali, Spanish, Portuguese, German, French, Japanese, Arabic, Turkish, Korean, Indonesian, Malay, Thai, Kazakh, Nepali, Czech)
Audio in videoYes — synchronized audio included on every video, free tier and up
WatermarkNone — on any tier, including free
Commercial useAllowed on all plans including free
Failed generation policyAutomatically refunded

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