Ex F1 SWE โ Series A Startup AI Engineer โ Startup founder ๐จโ๐ป
On the road to $1000 MRR ๐
Sports ๐๐ปโโ๏ธ and food lover ๐
Documenting my journey here โก๏ธ
Haven't posted since Dec 2025, but I've still been building.
In the past 9 months, I've grown https://t.co/7mN3a08LiC to:
๐ฐ $1,668 YTD revenue
๐ฏ 22k organic clicks/month
๐ฅ 5,000 users (190 paying)
Nothing viral yet, but a clear improvement that I'm excited about!
Adam, one of our Senior AI Engineers, gave a guest lecture at The Centre for Human-Inspired AI (CHIA) at Cambridge University last week ๐
He talked about the rapidly developing space of Agentic AI, walking students through theoretical concepts and through his own experiences and recommendations as a Senior AI Engineer working in this field.
Students were engaged and he had great chats afterwards about working with LLMs, building agentic AI, and how to start a career in this area.
Awesome to see causaLens being represented at top academic institutions.
My @cursor_ai year in review boils down to 462M tokens used, aka 3.2M tokens per $1 made ๐
How many tokens did you use per $1 earned this year?
#buildinpublic
This silly mistake cost me $165 which is more than the total revenue of https://t.co/1HDhqyDHab ๐ฌ
I assumed RapidAPI would auto-upgrade my plan when I hit the limit.
But you guessed it: it didnโt.
So I got charged per request instead. But thankfully support gave me a sympathy refund! ๐
Oops ๐คฆโโ๏ธ I recently added monitoring on https://t.co/zR3yRwnGmq, but I picked the default 3-min frequency instead of daily. Went to bed, woke up to GlobeFlix blowing past API limits overnight.
Small price to pay for load testing, I guess? ๐
#buildinpublic#IndieDev
https://t.co/Y1eO4E2ACF just crossed 1.2k organic Google searches and ranks #1 for most target searches ๐
SEO finally paying off
On to monetisation next! #buildinpublic
Why it's been quiet on this corner of the internet:
๐ End-of-year work push
โณ Limited time to build
๐โโ๏ธ Final race of the year
From Saturday onward, Iโll finally have proper time to focus on https://t.co/Y1eO4E2ACF monetisation and kicking off a new product ๐ #buildinpublic
Yesterday (typical Sunday):
โฐ 6:30am wake up (2h deep 1h30 REM)
๐ Making banana bread
๐โโ๏ธ Endurance 3000m pool swim
๐๏ธ Lunch at sports bar for F1 season finale
๐ฎ Unwind at home, play video games with gf
๐ ๏ธ Worked on a new feature for https://t.co/KoPLFho0hb
๐ฌ Plan marketing + weekly posts on @postsyncer
๐บ Dinner with gf at 8pm + TV show
Now I'm about to read in bed and sleep at 10:30pm to start the new week strong! ๐ช #buildinpublic
It's been hard to progress on my projects lately:
๐ผ Increased responsibility and deadlines at work
๐ Delivered a guest lecture at Cambridge University on Agentic AI
Despite this, I analysed analytics for https://t.co/KoPLFhnsrD for next steps and have 3 directory concepts to explore #buildinpublic
Didn't post last week (not ideal) due to:
๐จโ๐ฉโ๐ง Family visiting
๐ Birthday weekend
๐ Long work hours
๐โโ๏ธ Brutal training week (+50km running)
๐ Prepping slides for a Cambridge guest lecture on Agentic AI
Now planning next steps for my apps + 2 new product ideas brewing ๐ก #buildinpublic