When I was 16, I started an e-commerce business completely on my own. No team, no support, no shortcuts. I thought building a company would mostly be about marketing and distribution. What I didn’t realise is that running an online business means doing everything: finance, operations, strategy, customer service, admin, reporting, and decision-making, all at once.
The real problem isn’t effort, it’s mental bandwidth. A solo founder can only properly focus on two or three things at a time. Everything else either gets delayed or done badly.
Then the AI agent boom started, and I had a simple question: what if one person could run a company with a full team behind them, without actually hiring anyone?
That question became Elixa.app
Elixa is an AI talent pool and workspace where solo founders can install developer-made AI employees into a free workspace and collaborate with them like a real team. These agents handle real operational tasks around the clock, across different parts of the business, while the founder stays in control.
Early users are getting access for free while we test it in real operating conditions. We’re building a waiting list of 10,000 users and onboarding founders gradually, month by month, as the system grows.
If you’re a one-person online business and this resonates, you can join the waiting list directly from the elixa.app homepage.
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This hits home. The mental bandwidth problem is real - at 16 you probably learned faster than most what it really means to "wear all the hats."
We've been exploring a similar thesis from a different angle: instead of a talent pool of AI employees, we're building AI agents that specialize in specific high-friction workflows (like onboarding new users through product demos). The key insight we've landed on is that these AI "employees" work best when they have narrow, deep competence rather than trying to be generalists.
Curious about the developer marketplace angle - are you seeing more traction from founders who want pre-built agents, or from developers wanting to monetize their agent creations? That two-sided dynamic seems tricky to bootstrap.
Also voted "Just me!" on the poll because, well, that's the reality for most of us here.
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