Olayinka - building in public | AI

Solo founder building AI in public 🌍 A free football-prediction engine + an AI marketing platform with real users. Wins, $MRR & the broken builds.

[Olayinka - building in public | AI @olaDmenace]

I'm a solo developer in Lagos. For years I built in private. Today I go public.

[Olayinka - building in public | AI @olaDmenace]

The "show your reasoning" principle isn't just nice — it's the moat. Anyone can output a number. Showing why, and keeping the receipts, is what earns trust. It's the spine of both PitchOdds and what I'm building next.

🔗 https://t.co/shyTFYQqQg

[Olayinka - building in public | AI @olaDmenace]

What are you building? Drop it below — I actually read these and I'll boost the ones I find interesting. 👇

[Olayinka - building in public | AI @olaDmenace]

@markproduct Well, I did and it's the visibility part of it all that's getting increasingly harder. You can. Check it out at:

https://t.co/m19ieiAOtc

[Olayinka - building in public | AI @olaDmenace]

If you're building solo, #1 is the one I wish I'd believed two years ago.

[Olayinka - building in public | AI @olaDmenace]

I shipped a handful of AI products before I had a single follower. Everything I'd tell myself if I started over 🧵

[Olayinka - building in public | AI @olaDmenace]

6/ Build with tools that move fast (Claude Code) so you can spend your scarce hours on judgement, not boilerplate.

[Olayinka - building in public | AI @olaDmenace]

Drop your website 👇 — I'll run Conduikt on a couple of them and post what it generates (the good and the cringe).

[Olayinka - building in public | AI @olaDmenace]

Hot take: most "AI marketing tools" are just ChatGPT with a nicer button. The actual hard part — and the only part worth building — is the boring loop: research → publish → measure → adjust, on autopilot. That's what I'm building into Conduikt.

[Olayinka - building in public | AI @olaDmenace]

Love the distribution engine you built. We’re doing something similar but on the marketing side — AI that audits your site, generates on-brand content, publishes to X/LinkedIn/email, and improves from performance data. Geodo handles the sales execution. Conduikt powers the content engine that feeds it. Free to try: https://t.co/ughzSXI9Nc
Curious how you’re thinking about the marketing layer?

[Olayinka - building in public | AI @olaDmenace]

Building AI marketing means resisting the urge to wrap ChatGPT in a nicer UI. The hard part — research → publish → measure → adjust — is what's worth building. Polish without the loop is theatre.

[Olayinka - building in public | AI @olaDmenace]

Conduikt update: ~30 people have signed up — almost all small-business founders. Most are on the free tier and I haven't converted anyone to paying yet. That's this month's job. Building it in the open.

[Olayinka - building in public | AI @olaDmenace]

Half the people following football-prediction accounts read "55% home win" as "home will win." It actually means "slightly better than a coin flip." Calibration matters more than calls — and most accounts hide both.

[Olayinka - building in public | AI @olaDmenace]

5/ It does not claim to beat bookmakers. It's a transparent model you can learn from — and improve. Tell me what you'd add.

[Olayinka - building in public | AI @olaDmenace]

"AI predicts football" is usually a black box spitting out a number. PitchOdds isn't. Here's exactly how it thinks 🧵

[Olayinka - building in public | AI @olaDmenace]

4/ The part I care about most: calibration. I run a walk-forward backtest and publish whether the probabilities actually hold up. When it says 60%, does it happen ~60% of the time?