Andrew Zakonov

Andrew Zakonov

Building Kinetik. AI agent made simple.
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Launching AI products since back when we called it machine learning. Built content platforms, music products, voice assistants. Created and led Junie coding agent at JetBrains. Now founder and CEO of Kineto, building Kinetik agent: making AI simple and actually fun for creators.

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  • Kinetik
    KinetikOpenClaw for creators: content, ops, growth
    Apr 2026
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    Joined Product HuntAugust 13th, 2015

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Andrew Zakonov•

30d ago

Kinetik - OpenClaw for creators: content, ops, growth

The unsexy truth about being a creator: half your time isn't creating — it's guessing what works, negotiating with brands and analyzing trends. Kinetik handles everything around content and monetization, so the best part – making it – stays yours. It learns your niche, tells you what works, what to post next and how to monetize. Chat via WhatsApp – voice, photos or text – not every creator needs to be organized, unless it's Kinetik.
Andrew Zakonov•

1mo ago

Looking for people building for creators. Let's connect!

I'm Andrew, based in London, founder and CEO of Kineto, with over a decade in content platforms, music products, and voice assistants. Most recently, before Kineto, I created and led Junie, the JetBrains coding agent, got to scale it from zero, watch it actually start shaping how teams work, and learn what scaling an agent really takes.

Now I'm taking that experience into a different industry: the creator and influencer economy.

Two things I'd genuinely love to talk to people here about:

The creator economy itself. Tools, platforms, business models, all moving fast. I'm a fan of the take that we can't really automate creativity, but there are 20 things around it that agents can genuinely help with. Not using AI is not on the table, that ship sailed. The interesting question is how we build products that take the boring 20 and protect the part people actually got into this for. Always curious to meet others working in this space: image, video, audio, voice, anything adjacent.

Nika•

1mo ago

How do you distinguish AI content from real, human-made content?

AI is incredibly good, I d even say almost perfect.

And for many people, that uniformity of perfect templates is starting to feel annoying.

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