Sanyi Diriba is a 16-year-old self-taught full-stack developer and founder of YScroll, a productivity app tackling doom scrolling on platforms like YouTube Shorts, built and launched from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Sanyi began coding with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript and expanded into Python, AI, and machine learning, competing in hackathons including the A2SV Hackathon in 2024 where he placed first with his team.

Driven by a personal experience of losing five hours to YouTube Shorts in a single sitting, Sanyi built YScroll as a direct countermeasure to the frictionless design of modern social media platforms.

Prior to YScroll, Sanyi co-founded Go2Cod in September 2024, a free structured internship platform for aspiring coders that grew to over 700 participants across Africa within months; he also built Pinshot, a visual feedback micro-SaaS tool that surpassed 2,000 users at launch.

YScroll is live on Google Play and as a Chrome extension, with its LinkedIn launch generating over one million impressions; all of Sanyi's projects remain fully bootstrapped, funded by his own effort and community supporters.