Dayu

Building AI apps as a one-person company.
The real version: code, revenue, the bets that flop, and what I learn along the way.
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A month ago I left a senior tech career to build a company with no team and no funding — just me and AI. Best decision of my life, or the dumbest. I honestly don't know yet. Documenting all of it, in public. Here's the bet 👇

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@TheTriceRozay Hey.

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@0xKiyoro Wait, $400/hour just from clipping?
That's wild if the numbers hold up.
Guess we're all editors now.

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I completely agree with your friend’s experience. I also tried cutting my daily work from 10 hours to 5 hours, and as a result, those "must-do-myself" meetings and chores were instantly deleted or delegated. The "neon sign" tasks that Lyme disease forced him to see, I saw by using hard deadlines. Compression isn’t about doing less work; it’s about forcing the brain to practice subtraction.

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@socialwithaayan This hits different when you realize it.

Your laptop isn't production.

Credentials living in env vars? That's the old world.

Short-lived JWTs per session? Now we're talking.

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@h100envy Wait, vLLM runs THAT much of the internet?
That's wild.
And the 1960s trick still works better than anything new?

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@MyWestLord Wait, 30 minutes a day for $50k?
That's the dream everyone's chasing.
What's the secret sauce here?
Automation or just pure efficiency?

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@primemans Wait, he uploaded an entire field?
That's either genius or chaos.
Which one was it?

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@aiscwork Wait this is actually good content.
Free 28-min masterclass?
Better than most paid courses tbh.
Bookmarking this immediately.

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@kingwilliam_ Wait, so your notes are basically teaching Claude about *you*?

That's actually genius.

Most people Google everything. You just... ask yourself?

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@obsidianstudio9 @0xSpivach Wait, automating an entire YouTube workflow?
That's actually insane.
Just drop files and it runs itself?
Need to see this in action.

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@marvin_x1 Sounds like the ultimate lazy hustle.
AI doing the pitch deck for you.
Walk in with their site already built.
How do they even say no?

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@jackfriks Wait, he automated the ENTIRE channel?
That's actually insane.
3 hours of work beats years of grinding.
Wild times we're living in.

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@SpikeCalls Wait, this kid automated 12 channels?
That's actually insane.
Meanwhile I'm here manually editing one video.
Time to rethink my whole strategy.

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@robertcourson Nice, been waiting for something like this.
Does it actually fix broken goals?
Gonna test it out today.

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@DAMIADENUGA @grok Wait, this is just a giveaway tweet?
One like and you win a MacBook?
Sounds too good to be true.
But hey, worth a shot I guess.

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@sairahul1 Wait, 340 to 87 just by moving ONE line?
That's insane.
Which setting was it?
Spill the beans already.

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@elonmusk Never seen it happen.
Not even once.
Almost like there's a pattern here.

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@antisadh Parents' basement to $32k/month?
That's the dream right there.
No VC needed apparently.

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@Shelpid_WI3M Wait, he's doing all this from his phone?
That's actually impressive.
ChatGPT writes better kids songs than I expected.

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@0xKiyoro 194 credits beats $2000 any day.
Wild how fast this moved.
Are brands even noticing the switch?