You'd be surprised how many tools you're building that don't need to exist. Instead of adding features, focus only on what moves users to pay.
Stop building things nobody asked for.
If you learned to build with AI early, you're shipping solo what used to take a whole damn team.
If you didn't, you're still waiting on the data engineer to pull that one report. WAKE UP!!!!
Someone told me "I don't hate working with data." Now they avoid dashboards entirely.
Most founders don't go data-blind out of nowhere - they get burned doing it manually for too long.
That's exactly what I'm building to fix.
been building with AI agents for months now and the pace is insane
if you're not at least playing around with this stuff you're missing the shift
doesn't matter what you use it for - just start. understanding how this works isn't optional anymore
I think the solo indie dev's impact on modern software is massively underestimated.
Comparing what one person ships today to what required a full team two years ago isn't moving goalposts - it's missing the entire revolution agents unleashed.
Building with AI isn't about the tool-it's about the outcome. Figure out what you're ACTUALLY trying to automate, then reverse-engineer everything from there.
@AnandButani@TrySyllaby nice! checking out syllaby now
Currently, I am mostly building agents for data workflows and saas automation, stuff that used to need full teams
5 Lessons From Building Solo With AI:
1. Agents don't replace thinking
2. Start smaller than you think
3. One focused tool beats ten half-built ones
4. Done beats perfect
5. Distribution is the real work
I've been building in private. Today it goes public.
I write almost none of the code, agents build, I make the calls.
You'll get the parts most builders cut: what broke, what it cost, the calls I got wrong.