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About $145M in revenue last year, up 85%, reportedly preparing an IPO.
You pay a human astrologer by the minute. It scales headcount, not margin, and nobody remembers you tomorrow.
Careers
One role is open. It's remote, it's for someone in the US or Europe, and the terms are written out further down this page in full, including the parts that were uncomfortable to write.
What we are building
Nysa reads a person’s real birth chart and then talks to them about what it finds, in the language of psychology rather than prophecy. How they attach. What they do when they are hurt. Why they keep choosing the same kind of person and calling it bad luck.
It remembers. The tenth conversation starts where the ninth ended, not from nothing, which is the thing almost nothing else in this category does.
And it's built, deliberately, to make someone need it less over time. Not more. That one decision rules out most of the tactics that work in consumer wellness, and it's the reason this job is interesting rather than routine. You can't grow this product by making people compulsive about it. You have to grow it by being genuinely useful and then saying so clearly, which is a much harder and much better problem.
The category
This matters because you are being asked to take a risk, and the honest way to argue for a risk is with other people’s numbers rather than our own. So here are three companies, none of them us.
About $145M in revenue last year, up 85%, reportedly preparing an IPO.
You pay a human astrologer by the minute. It scales headcount, not margin, and nobody remembers you tomorrow.
20M+ downloads. Acquired by Midjourney in July 2026.
A daily push notification with a sharp voice. It forgets you the moment you close it, by design.
Roughly $14M to $18M a year on subscriptions, with no venture money at all.
Every word written by hand. Proof that people will pay properly for depth, capped by the cost of a human writing it.
Read those three together and the shape of the opening is obvious. One of them scales humans. One of them scales content. One of them refuses to scale at all. Not one of them is building the thing that actually knows you and gets more useful the longer you stay, because that requires memory, and memory is expensive and slow and doesn't make a good push notification.
An AI lab buying an astrology app in July 2026 wasn't a curiosity. It was a starting gun. This window is open now and it won't be open in three years.
Where things stand
Six months of full-time work by two people. Shivam is the founder and wrote the product. Kiara is the founding designer and owns how every part of it looks, moves and sounds.
What that has produced isn't a prototype:
What doesn't exist is anyone whose job is to make the world aware of any of it. We haven't launched properly, there are no traffic numbers worth quoting to you, and we're not going to invent any. You'd be arriving at the start. That's either the appeal or the dealbreaker, and it's worth knowing which before you write to us.
How we work
These aren't aspirations pinned to a wall. They're how a two-person company already behaves, written down before it gets big enough to forget.
We bring people in to own things, not to be managed. If you have to check with someone before you can act, we've built the wrong company.
Decisions live in documents that anyone can read a year later. Meetings are the exception, and the ones we have are short and have a reason.
No green dots, no status theater, nobody proving they were online at nine. We count whether the thing grew.
Cap table, revenue, runway, what is in the bank. You're not betting your time on figures you're not allowed to see.
Respect means telling someone the truth early, while it's still cheap to fix. Both halves of that sentence are load-bearing.
The deal
Every company we admire publishes what it pays. We can't publish a number we don't have, so we're publishing the whole structure instead, which is the same promise made a different way.
Here's the arithmetic you're going to do anyway, so let's do it together. Nysa is a sole proprietorship in India today. It isn't incorporated yet, which means the equity is a written promise that converts on incorporation, not a share certificate anyone can hand you this week.
There is a real chance this is worth nothing. We think it's worth considerably more than nothing and the reasoning is all on this page, but the risk sits with you and no amount of good writing moves it somewhere else. What we can control is that every promise is written down and every number is visible to you from your first week.
Open role
Founding team
Nysa has a product and no audience. This role owns the entire distance between those two facts.
If that's not you but you think you should be here regardless, write anyway. A company this size doesn't have a headcount plan, it has a list of things nobody is doing, and a convincing email can add a line to it. shivam@intonysa.com.
How we hire
shivam@intonysa.com. A few paragraphs beats a cover letter. Send one thing you've written that you'd defend, and tell us why this one.
About an hour with Shivam. You get the cap table, the revenue, the runway, and a straight answer to anything you ask, including the questions that are awkward for us.
We agree something real and narrow, and we pay for it. It's not a lot of money, and it's the first thing we'd spend cash on before revenue, because a week of working together tells both of us more than four interviews.
There's no deadline and no application form. We read everything that arrives and answer it, usually inside a week, and we close the role when we've found the person rather than when a calendar says to.
Before you ask
Yes, for now, and we'd rather you read that here than discover it on a call. There's no salary until we're funded or hit an agreed revenue milestone, and that trigger goes into the signed agreement before you start. What there is instead: founding equity of up to 5% vesting over four years, and a capped share of net revenue from your first day.
Because asking someone in the US or Europe to give up a year of income on our conviction isn't a reasonable thing to ask, and the people who would say yes to it are usually not the people we want. Keep your job. Do this alongside it. It converts to full time with a salary when the money is there.
Then the revenue share is what you got, the equity converts to a stake in a small company that pays for itself or to nothing at all, and you keep everything you made. We'd tell you it wasn't working long before you worked it out yourself. That's the actual downside, and we're not going to describe it more gently than that.
No, and a skeptic is arguably better at this. Nysa's positioning has to survive someone who does not buy any of it, which means the copy has to earn belief rather than assume it. Someone who needed convincing writes better for people who need convincing.
Not right now. The constraint is a two to three hour overlap window with the founder, and outside those regions the overlap stops working. Everything else here is async and written. If you're just outside and think it works anyway, say so in your email rather than assuming it disqualifies you.