CloudRaptor
A deploy platform for teams that want to ship, not babysit infrastructure. Pre-launch — building deliberately with a small set of design partners.
cloudraptor.io
01 Story
Twelve years in business. Most of it spent learning what doesn't work.
I finished my engineering degree at RUET in 2013 and never took a job. The next year I started a small ICT coaching center in Rajshahi, and to keep my profile credible while I ran it, I picked up a part-time lectureship in ICT at Waymark Ideal College. The lectureship was strategic — the coaching business was the business.
In 2017 I started with Amazon Associates — small product-niche affiliate sites. By month three I was earning more than my college salary. Five years of that taught me SERPs, intent, and the strange economics of the open internet. In 2022 I shifted into ad-supported blogging — AdSense, Mediavine, Ezoic, Journey — and scaled to more than seventy content sites across niches. Most disappeared in the September 2023 Helpful Content update. The lesson was specific and expensive: nothing you don't own is yours.
By that point I'd already started Skyranko — a content + SEO operation that grew to thirty-some people. We did real work and burned through real money. In late 2024 I took it through a planned, paid-out restructure: let go of the team with runway, kept the company, and rebuilt it around a smaller, sustainable model. Skyranko still operates today, just at a much more deliberate scale. The version of me running Aethera Labs, Link Basket, and the leaner Skyranko is the one that came out the other side. Smaller surface area. Sharper edges. In no particular rush.
