Building a SaaS solo from my bedroom: Zero budget, zero funding, launching April 15.
Hey IH đź‘‹,
I’m 17, and for the past few months, I’ve been trying to solve a problem that’s ruining social media: the endless ocean of generic, ChatGPT-sounding posts.
I’m building Aaptics to fix this by extracting a user's actual writing style. But honestly, the hardest part hasn't been the AI—it’s been surviving as a solo dev with literally zero budget.
I’ve had to get extremely scrappy with my architecture. I managed to orchestrate the entire backend using Render, Supabase, and Cloudflare Workers completely on free tiers. Figuring out how to keep edge-worker cron jobs running 24/7 without timing out or crashing was an absolute nightmare, but I finally bulletproofed the system.
It’s crazy building something alone while watching well-funded AI startups pop up every single day. But having no money forces you to focus strictly on utility over hype.
I am officially pushing for a public launch on April 15th.
Right now, I’m just trying to survive the pre-launch anxiety and polish the final UI. For the solo founders out there—how do you handle the final 4 weeks before launch without completely burning out? Would love some advice!
waitlist Live at - aaptics.in/waitlist
How did you manage to bypass the execution limits on the Cloudflare free tier without the edge-worker cron jobs timing out during the style-extraction process?
Cloudflare allows 100k reuest /day and worker uses almost 1.5% of this so its running free right now.
i am clarifying that I use worker for only publishing scheduled post and it's main function and everything on our dedicated server.