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BUILD
AGAINST
THE GRAIN.

A raw archival stream of technical progress, intentional failures, and the brutal reality of the 1-person software company.

Build #845_Refactored Lat: 52.5200° N / Lon: 13.4050° E Last Sync: Just now

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The Genesis.

In 2020, I realized that the modern career path was a high-risk gamble on someone else's equity. I liquidated my savings, bought a domain, and started writing code for myself.

"The first 100 days were silent. No sales. No feedback. Just the sound of my mechanical keyboard and the ticking of a bank balance trending toward zero."

Initial Capital

$14,500

Runway

12 Months

FILE_HISTORY.LOG [ACTIVE]

[2020.03.12] - resign_letter.pdf Verified

[2020.03.15] - domain_purchase: solofounder.io Success

[2020.04.01] - first_commit: project_nexus Initial

[2020.05.20] - mvp_alpha_ready Deploy

Present: 4 Products Generating Revenue

Revenue Transparency

$12.4k

Current_Monthly_Recurring

Profit Margin 94.2% Overhead is the enemy

Yearly Run Rate $148k Scalable model verified

Product_001 // Flagship

Nexus_UI

Type: SaaS Component Kit

Launched: September 2021

Status: Revenue Generating

A specialized component system for indie founders who want a premium look without a designer. It currently powers 1,200+ micro-SaaS landing pages.

01 Built with Next.js, Framer Motion & Tailwind CSS.
02 Zero-config dynamic copy generation for solo builders.
03 One-time purchase model with perpetual updates.

Case_Study.pdf

980+

Active Licenses

$58k

Gross Revenue

Tech Post-Mortem

"Scaling to 1k users required a complete rewrite of the license server. Migrated from custom Express to Supabase Edge Functions. Latency dropped by 400ms globally."

Stack_Audit

As a solo founder, the goal isn't "the best tech." The goal is "the tech I can maintain while sleeping." No complex orchestration. No overhead.

Next.js + React

TypeScript Core

PostgreSQL / Prisma

Stripe Payments

Tailwind CSS

Cloudflare Workers

Active_Repositories

Nexus_UI_PRO Pulse_Engine Ghost_Script_v2 Micro_Metrics

The Cemetery.

9 Projects Defunct / Total Loss: $22k

Failed_Jan_2021

SocialGraph_AI

A tool to visualize LinkedIn connections. Failed because I didn't account for LinkedIn's aggressive API restrictions.

Lesson: Platform dependency is a death trap.

Failed_May_2021

MealPrep_Core

Subscription meal planner for engineers. Failed because I hated the niche and couldn't build community.

Lesson: Don't build in markets you don't love.

Failed_Aug_2022

TaskForge_v1

Project manager for teams. Failed because the competition (Notion/Linear) was already perfect.

Lesson: Don't compete with giants on features.

The
Founder
Creed.

Internal operating system

01. Code as Asset

If a task takes 10 minutes a day, spend 10 hours automating it. Employees are overhead; code is a permanent asset.

02. Transparency

Build in public. Share the profit, the losses, and the boring parts. Trust is the only currency that doesn't devalue.

03. Signal Over Noise

Don't market. Teach. If you solve problems for free, people will fight to pay you to solve their bigger ones.

04. Anti-Scale

Grow until you reach your freedom threshold, then stop. Optimization for life quality beats optimization for revenue.

JOIN

Sync_Your_Feed.

Every Sunday, I send a raw report of exactly what I built, how much it made, and the mistakes I'm currently fixing.

Zero trackers. Total privacy. 12,400+ syncing.

BUILD AGAINST THE GRAIN.