3 Months of Solo Building a Crypto Intelligence Platform — Here's What Shipped
3 Months of Solo Building a Crypto Intelligence Platform — Here's What Shipped
Hey IH 👋
I'm Kyrylo, solo founder of Mirkaso — a real-time derivatives intelligence platform for crypto and RWA traders. Think Bloomberg Terminal vibes but for crypto futures, built by one person.
Quick context: I monitor 740 instruments across Binance Futures (570 crypto + 170 TradFi perpetuals) and surface anomalies, signals, and market structure data that professional traders actually need. 99.7% market coverage.
Here's what the last 3 months looked like.
What shipped (June → August 2026)
New pages & features:
Correlation Matrix — 12-asset correlation heatmap with hybrid SSR rendering. Helps traders spot when correlations break down (that's where the edge is)
ETF Flows Dashboard — real-time ETF flow tracking for 10 assets via SoSoValue API. Institutional money flows visible at a glance
Seasonality Explorer — generated 508 individual instrument pages with ISR. Each coin gets its own seasonality profile with historical patterns
Macro Dashboard redesign — complete overhaul of the macro data view
Liquidations Dashboard — frontend, backend, and DB migration all done (currently rewriting the data fetcher from REST to WebSocket)
Guides section — seeded 10 educational guides, publishing 3/week cadence
Infrastructure & DX:
Expanded from 677 to 740 tracked instruments (added TradFi perpetuals — commodities, forex, indices)
Chinese localization (3 phases shipped, 4th in progress)
SEO expansion: 508 new pages, JSON-LD structured data, hreflang tags, canonical fixes
Built an admin marketing panel — AI-powered tweet drafter with signal-based content generation
Migrated LLM calls to Azure OpenAI (gpt-5-mini) from OpenRouter
Shipped glossary translation pipeline for 5 locales
Fixed a nasty type-cast bug in the anomaly detector that was silently dropping signals
What I learned
SEO compounds. Those 508 seasonality pages are starting to pull organic traffic. Programmatic SEO with real data (not AI slop) works — Google rewards unique datasets.
Solo doesn't mean slow. Shipping a correlation matrix, ETF flows, seasonality explorer, liquidations dashboard, macro redesign, localization, and an admin panel in 3 months — with infra optimization on the side. The trick is ruthless prioritization and knowing when to shelf things (killed an orderbook page idea early — negative ROI).
Type safety matters in async Python. Lost hours to an asyncpg bug where implicit type casting silently filtered out valid signals. Now I explicitly cast every parameterized query. Boring fix, big impact.
Your proxy will break. Running a Squid proxy on Fly.io Singapore to bypass Binance geo-restrictions works until it doesn't. Currently migrating to Cloudflare Workers — simpler, cheaper, more reliable.
The pitch in one line
If you trade crypto derivatives and you're still alt-tabbing between 14 browser tabs to check funding rates, open interest, liquidations, and correlations — Mirkaso puts it all in one place with anomaly detection on top.
Would love feedback from other solo founders building in fintech or crypto. What's your experience with programmatic SEO? And how do you think about the tension between shipping features vs. growing users when you're pre-PMF?
