Founder & Product Builder
Ciriac CABROL
I take ideas from a blank page to a profitable product: concept, backend, apps, launch and growth, end to end.
Currently building Chaipa, the cinematic IPTV player for Android TV
About
From idea to profitable product
Independent developer and founder based in Montreal, Canada. I run my projects end to end—idea, architecture, backend, apps, SEO and monetization—and carry them all the way to profitability. Before that, 8+ years as a backend developer at Les Technologies Seedbox (2018–2026).
I have a soft spot for making strong encryption accessible—from end-to-end encrypted messaging to zero-knowledge password managers—and for serverless architectures: everything runs on Cloudflare Workers, built with TypeScript and Next.js. I also run Ciriac, my own venture since 2010.
Today my main project is Chaipa, a cinematic IPTV player for Android TV, Google TV and Fire TV: a native Kotlin app with its backend running on Cloudflare Workers, published on Google Play and the Amazon Appstore.
Experience
Where I've worked
Founder & Developer
Chaipa (chaipa.net)
Backend Developer
Les Technologies Seedbox
SEO Specialist
Les Technologies Seedbox
Owner
Ciriac, Self-employed
SEO Specialist
Les Technologies Seedbox
Projects
What I've built
ChaipaMain project
The cinematic IPTV player for Android TV
Native Android TV app that plays your own M3U Plus playlists and Xtream Codes accounts with a Netflix-style interface: live TV, movies, series, built-in EPG guide, catch-up, universal search and online subtitles. Free, with an optional Premium subscription. It is a player, not a content service: no playlists, no accounts, no ads.
- Kotlin + Jetpack Compose for TV, D-pad focus management, two video engines (Media3 ExoPlayer and VLC)
- Live TV with instant zapping, 7-day replay, recordings to USB or SMB shares, offline downloads, parental controls
- Backend on Cloudflare Workers (crowdsourced programme guide and channel logos, admin messaging) plus a dedicated EPG service
- Published on Google Play and the Amazon Appstore; React Native for Vega port in progress for the new Fire TV sticks
- Website in 4 languages, Premium billing through Google Play and Amazon, 30-day free trial
End2End.app
End-to-end encrypted messaging app. Zero-knowledge architecture with client-side AES-256 encryption via Web Crypto API.
- Client-side encryption — server never sees plaintext data
- Key derivation with PBKDF2 and unique initialization vectors
- Deployed on Cloudflare Workers with KV and R2 storage
- Internationalization with next-intl (4 languages)
PasswordOwlExperimental
No longer maintained. Still functional and secure, but experimental.
Zero-knowledge password manager with full client-side encryption. Dual-secret architecture using Argon2id and AES-256-GCM.
- Key derivation with Argon2id (GPU/ASIC attack resistant)
- Dual authentication: master password + secret key
- Chrome extension with DOM injection for autofill
- Breach detection via Have I Been Pwned API (k-anonymity)
Oh, and most of the sites I've built over the years? Let's just say they're for… a mature audience. Just ask if you want the URLs 😏
Skills
Tech stack
Let's be honest — my real superpower is getting AI to do exactly what I want. Claude Code, custom skills, agent workflows… I basically mass-produce senior developers from my terminal.