Founder on the Wire
The people building with AI, in their own words.
Long, honest conversations with the operators actually shipping AI work. Solo founders, tiny teams, and the industries quietly being rewritten.
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- founder Q&As
- agency-of-one profiles
- small team operating models
- industry deep-dives
- honest post-AI agency stories
- field reports from the wire
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Pieter Levels Paid $19 for Kimi K3. It Cleared the To-Do List Claude Would Not Touch.
He moved a browser-based Windows XP project from Claude Code to OpenCode and Kimi K3 after two weeks of safety blocks. The useful lesson is in the routing.
Indie Hackers Built AI Factories. Then Nobody Showed Up.
Code got cheap. Distribution did not. A field report on vibe-coding abundance, empty Stripe dashboards, and the operators who still print money anyway.
He Built an AI Headshot Empire Solo. The Product Was Boring on Purpose.
Danny Postma already had a seven-figure AI exit before HeadshotPro. The durable money was not another 24-hour toy. It was professional headshots, SEO, and a narrow vertical.
He Built an App in 24 Hours and Made $20,378 the Next Day. Here's the Part Nobody Screenshots.
Marc Lou built TrustMRR in 24 hours and made $20,378 the next day. His own year-end letter admits he earned 20% less than 2024. Both facts matter.
He Built a Flight Simulator in Three Hours and Hit $1M a Year in 17 Days. Then It Went to Zero.
Pieter Levels hit $1M ARR in 17 days with a flight sim built in three hours. His bio now lists it at $0/m. The durable money was always the boring app.
He Made $189,000 in Profit in a Single Month, Then Sold the Whole Thing to Wix for $80 Million. Six Months In.
Maor Shlomo signed the Wix deal the morning a war broke out. Six months, $189,000 in May profit, $80 million in cash. The clean version of this story skips the parts that matter.