Surafel | ሱራፌል.
TouchDesigner visuals, live-coded music, AI agents, and launched products—often with the build log still warm.
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The channel moves between visual experiments, software projects, and public progress notes. It has documented CelerusTalent from a first idea to a working core feature, explored retrieval concepts while making LIMAR, and launched products including APLEO and Bytesoul.
- The channel has collected 2,495 posts so far.
- It averages 37.1 posts per week over the last 90 days.
- The current posting streak is 46 weeks.
- English makes up 89% of text posts.
The journey.
- Nov 2022 – Nov 2025
Building now.
Celerus Talent
BuildingCelerusTalent is being shaped toward beta, with its core feature working and an LLM already extracting resume summaries and skills.
Started as a personal project in Jan 2026 and entered beta preparation in Feb 2026.
LIMAR
BuildingLIMAR is the channel’s hands-on lesson in chunking, embeddings, and retrieval.
እሳት
Buildingእሳት is an education project being built from scratch, with the interface and feedback process still taking shape.
telsem_et
Buildingtelsem_et is a work in progress combining live-coded music and visuals.
- Apleo
A platform offering tailored opportunities, remote jobs, and free scholarships through Telegram tools.
Previously tracked as Venture 2 and launched as APLEO in Jun 2026.
Launched74 postsMar 2026 – Jun 2026Visit - Bytesoul
A platform for self-discovery tests and meeting people without real names or pictures.
Launched31 postsJun 2026 – Jul 2026Visit - Celerus
A local, domain-specific product with a live AI agent.
Tracked as Venture 1 before being called Celerus in Apr 2026.
Launched12 postsApr 2026 – Jun 2026Visit - visualspam
A personal creative project documenting visual work, experiments, essays, and video diaries.
Expanded to garden.visualspam.et for essays in Aug 2026.
Launched9 postsMar 2026 – Oct 2026Visit - The Happy Lucky Project
A children and youth charity operating in Bahir Dar through an office and community activities.
Launched as The Happy Lucky Project in Sep 2026; also called Happy Lucky Chacho.
Launched6 postsSep 2026 – Oct 2026Visit - Ruby Picture
A website project receiving support and content-management work.
Building2 postsMar 2026Visit - Venture 4
A proposed venture that the author had begun asking Claude to prototype.
Idea2 postsJun 2026Visit - surafel.work
The author's personal portfolio and articles website.
Building2 postsMar 2026Visit - CHIMERA
A three-day project documented through an edited video.
Started as a three-day project in Feb 2026.
Building2 postsFeb 2026– - SKILLS.md
A file packaging the author's experience and skills.
Building1 postsApr 2026Visit - Penalty Showdown
A side app operated through the penalty showdown Telegram bot.
Building1 postsApr 2026– - the boy who cried broken
A planned site collecting the author's writing with a donation link.
Idea1 postsFeb 2026– - unnamed
An unnamed project the author was developing.
Building1 postsAug 2026– - Bridge
A Telegram bot and web app called Bridge.
Building1 postsJun 2026– - mural project
A mural the author was painting, with a second-floor layer underway.
Building1 postsOct 2026– - WorkStream
A project called WorkStream.
Started in Jul 2026.
Building1 postsJul 2026– - WIP.et
A project under active development called WIP.et.
Building1 postsJun 2026Visit - CRM
A CRM the author made for cold-calling work.
Building1 postsJun 2026– - Venture 3
A venture started with a customer already secured.
Idea1 postsMay 2026– - new project
A newly launched project with social media accounts and early traction.
Launched1 postsMay 2026–
Start here.
- 01
The first CelerusTalent post: a clean look at how a new project enters the channel.
Hey guys, I just started working on a personal project ... I will update you guys how it goes here ... its called #CelerusTalent ... and well ... You will find...
Jan 29, 2026122 views - 02
A compact example of the channel’s visual side, with custom TouchDesigner effects reacting to music.
Also custom made visuals for a music event using a circle, rotating mirrors, twirl and bloom effects in #TouchDesigner … there is a program that tries to antici...
Jan 26, 2026163 views - 03
The LIMAR post that turns a software build into a quick lesson on retrieval.
#LEARNED while making #LIMAR : Chunking -> Embedding -> Retrieval #DEV #LIMAR
Feb 3, 2026131 views - 04
The APLEO launch post, showing the channel moving from experiments to a live product.
APLEO is Live. 🕸 apleo.xyz Get started to get tailored opportunities @ApleoXYZBot or you can checkout all opportunities @ApleoScholarshipsEthiopia #APLEO #L...
Jun 8, 20264.6K views - 05
The Bytesoul launch, with the product idea and its Telegram entry points in one place.
-> bytesoul.xyz take tests, know thyself, meet other people, no real names, no pictures Bot -> @bytesoulbot Feed -> @bytesoulfeed #DEV
Jun 23, 20263.4K views
In their own words.
Going to setup an OpenClaw agent on an AWS VPS.
Fresh from the channel.
i don't know what i want from you anymore. i think that's what makes it so difficult to let go. if i wanted you back, maybe i could call it longing. if i hated you, maybe i could call it resentment. if i wanted nothing to do with you, maybe...
i think about death a lot. i mull over it and obsess over the day where i won't wake up. i can even say that it's the thing that has kept me sane longer than anything has. the realization that none of this is forever. i think about you lik...
Channel photo updated
Love has our ankles in its grasp and it just pulls on us slowly wherever we try to crawl and scramble to we will always be dragged along its path. At some point you just got to follow the vines that have wrapped around you and see where the...
It makes sense that frequency is a big part of life. It’s our vibrations and resonance that bring us together. To adhere and move with the wavelengths of love and energy. You don’t find love you’re pulled to it.
I can only look back at the memories of @happyluckychacho and Bahir Dar and think about a family I've found. People say they find friends, but one can also simply find family and purpose and love, the same way. I didn't know any of these pe...