YEN
To democratize the world's access to economic mobility through community and high-performance tools.
Founding Story
YEN was started as a project to build community-owned social networks and internal tools to replace expensive incumbents like Slack.
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Leadership
Founders
John Saddington
Founder and CEO. Entrepreneur and blogger (john.do). Previous founder of 8BIT, Standard Theme, and PressGram. Background in enterprise software and community platforms.
Peter Saddington
Co-founder. Twin brother of John Saddington. Founder of VinWiki. Known for cryptocurrency and tech investments (bought a Lamborghini with Bitcoin in 2011).
Executive Team
John Saddington
CEO and Co-founder
Experienced entrepreneur and software engineer. Previously at 8BIT and Standard Theme.
Peter Saddington
Co-founder
Entrepreneur and early Bitcoin adopter. Founder of VinWiki.
Business Model
Revenue Model
Free for local usage. Originally intended as a B2B SaaS platform for communities.
Pricing Tiers
Full features, local-first, no account required.
Target Markets
- Software Developers
- Power Users
- B2B Communities
- High-performance software development
- Internal team communication
- AI-assisted CLI workflows
- Indie Hackers
- Early B2B Community Adopters
History & Milestones
Shipped native AI-assisted skills (ChatGPT, Perplexity, etc.) into the terminal workflow.
Released GPU-accelerated version of YEN Terminal using Metal on macOS.
Closed first funding round from a group of strategic investors.
Built YEN.chat as an internal Slack replacement, which eventually became the YEN Terminal.
YEN founded by John and Peter Saddington.
1 AI Tool by YEN
A GPU-accelerated, terminal-first IDE for macOS with native on-device speech-to-text, 72 curated themes, built-in email/calendar, and local-first privacy — no cloud, no account required.
