About Tanya Van Gastel

About

Hi,

My name's Tanya.

I'm building Rankingonai.com - we're gonna be the #1 AI Search company in the world :)

Previously, I built and sold an AI photography startup.

FWIW, I'm also a Forbes 20 Women in Tech and Authority Magazine's Woman Leading AI.

I build in public over at YouTube and LinkedIn.

Get in touch for collaborations/speaking events here.

I hope you have a wonderful day.

Tanya Van Gastel

What I'm working on

I'm building Rankingonai.com - we help tech SaaS get sales through ChatGPT.

We do this through done-for-you AI SEO services, trainings (online and offline) and digital products.

I also make videos about how to get your business recommended by ChatGPT.

We've pushed many of our tech clients to the top position for their key terms. A top position is accomplished through a mix of strategic BOFU content, AI-optimized SEO and brand mentions.

On a side note - I genuinely love SEO and believe it is vastly underrated by most businesses for both sales and understanding user behavior.

If you're interested in working with us, click here.

I am a huge believer in the Barcelona tech ecosystem. I would love for Barcelona to be put on the map for the growing and awesome tech hub that it is.

I've been organizing Founder Hangs since 2024. If you are a tech founder with traction, please join us here.

Who attends Founder Hang?
Tech founders who do anywhere between $100k ARR to +$100 mil ARR, from YC backed and +$10 mil VC-funded to fully bootstrapped.

What I used to work on

That's my AI headshot ☝️ Created by the Multiverse AI - a company I co-founded in 2023. You upload 5 photos of yourself and then you get 100 professional headshots. Some of our clients included Google, Walmart, McKinsey and more.

We built this company without funding, getting clients almost entirely through SEO and bootstrapping it to ~$350k revenue before selling it in 2025.

In 2024, I created Capybara Affirmations AI, a web app to make your own personalized capybaras affirmations with AI.

It was the first website I've ever made (using Framer) and AI app (using Pickaxe).

Capybara Affirmations AI was created because I was going through a really challenging time. Affirmations helped me a lot. The science behind them are really solid too. They make for a great phone wallpaper.

Capybara Affirmations AI has +10,000 users.

I got some really cool features, amongst others in Marginal Revolution, one of my favorite blogs of all time, Digital Trends and the Pickaxe podcast.

Media

Note: This section isn't regularly updated

Go to my YouTube to see latest videos and a playlist of podcasts I've been on.

Media

Events

Getting to +$100k revenue: Lessons from a bootstrapped startup - Keynote at DigiMarCon Spain, W Hotel Barcelona
How to bootstrap your startup? - Keynote at Startup Grind, Barcelona
How to build futureproof ai experiences - Keynote at the CX Al Summit, Athens, Greece
Unlocking ai business opportunities - Fireside Chat at the EU SME Center
Judge at Barcelona's first Al hackathon HackBCN

Bio

Tanya Van Gastel is founder of Rankingonai.com.

She co-founded the Multiverse AI, an AI photography startup. The Multiverse AI grew from $0 to $350k revenue without outside funding, in two years and was then successfully sold. Clients include Google, Walmart, McKinsey, Deloitte and more.

Tanya has featured in Forbes, Wall Street Journal, BBC and Digital Trends for her insights on AI and tech trends.

With over a decade of experience in tech marketing, she previously worked at OnePlus, the EU Chamber of Commerce, and global venture capital firm Orbit Startups.

Tanya lives in Barcelona. She grew up in Antwerp, Belgium ('t stad) and has lived in Taipei, Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Tokyo and Dusseldorf.

She speaks English, Dutch, Chinese, French, German and is working on her Spanish.

Contact

Feel free to contact me for collaborations, speaking engagements on generative Al, inclusivity in tech and more via tanyavangastel@gmail.com

You can also follow me on

-> LinkedIn @ Tanya Van Gastel

-> Twitter @ foundertanya

-> YouTube @ foundertanya

⭐ Favs

If you have a recommendation for me on any of the above, please send it to me.

Books

I like to read. Here are some books I like.

Non-Fiction

An Economist Gets Lunch, Tyler Cowen
How Asia Works, Joe Studwell
Shadowplay, Tim Marshall
Nothing is True and Everything is Possible, Peter Pomerantsev
Trick Mirror, Jia Tolentino
Moonwalking with Einstein, Joshua Foer
Prisoners of Geography, Tim Marshall

Fiction

Do Not Say We Have Nothing, Madeleine Thien
The Topeka School, Ben Lerner
My Brilliant Friend, Elena Ferrante
Americanah, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Paper Menagerie, Ken Liu
Exhalations, Ted Chiang
House of Leaves, Mark Danielewski

Apps & Tools

Productivity

Willow - quickly transcribe voice into text. I mostly don't type anymore.

Shottr - I probably take +100 screenshots a day with this.
Itsycal - quickly see calendar in menu bar. Use daily +10 times.
Supercut AI - beautiful screen recording.
Vimium - navigate web with keyboard shortcuts.
Framer - what I almost always use for building any kind of website. This site is made with Framer.
Pickaxe - I used this to make Capybara Affirmations.
Rocket - easily type emoji.

Learning & Wellbeing

Conjugato - Spanish verbs practice.
Feedly - been using this app maybe +10 years to track blogs/news.
Linga - Reading foreign language books easily. Spanish for me. in Spanish. One click to translate a word. Recommend.
I Am - sends you a positive affirmation every hour or so as a notification.
Minimalist Phone - I switch to this when I feel myself doing too much phone.

Other things I like include lifting heavy (1.8x BW deadlift), cooking, skincare, productivity workflows, and supporting Barcelona-based companies.

If you have a recommendation, please share.