Feedback is harder than building
- Researched 15 AI-native founders
- Joined founder communities
- Started conversations around real workflows
The lesson: publishing creates the surface area for better questions.
The work behind the work
Building AI Startup of One in Public
Research progress, founder conversations, experiments, and the lessons we discover while building this movement.
Field notes
Learning in the open
Small observations from the process of finding and understanding AI-native solo founders.
Patterns started to emerge
- Mapped four founder archetypes
- Noticed personal pain as a recurring product origin
- Saw open source acting as early distribution
The lesson: the stories matter more when we connect them.
A question became a project
- Started with one simple question
- Defined the first research framework
- Published the first founder profile
The lesson: begin before the map is complete.
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