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30 days ago I posted here with $0 revenue. Here's what actually happened next.

30 days ago I posted here with $0 revenue. Here's what actually happened next.

30 days ago I posted here with $0 revenue. Here's what actually happened next.

I used $30,983 of AI tokens last month in Claude code on $200/mo plan

AI runs 70% of my distribution. The exact stack.

Still no paying users. So I'm doing something different.

Month One Isn't AI. It's Data Sanitation

Leaving his VC-backed company to bootstrap a product to $1M ARR in 10 months

Why We Turn Down Half the Renewal Requests We Get

Dialing in an AI product's ICP and growing it to $400k ARR

Leaving an antiquated industry to grow an AI-native platform to a 7-figure ARR

Building a fully-agentic engineer and growing it to $500k ARR

Building an autonomous business and closing in on $1M ARR

Why Technical Demos Don't Close Enterprise Deals

Why Technical Demos Don't Close Enterprise Deals

What I Learned Selling AI to Non-AI Founders