I got laid off and started a $1,000 to $1M experiment instead of job hunting

Got laid off in March after 8 years in operations at a company I won't name.
I sat with the resume thing for about four days. It felt wrong. So I stopped.
Instead I asked a different question: what if I took $1,000 and tried to build a real business from scratch, with AI as my co-strategist, and documented every decision in public?
Nine months. Hard deadline. Everything transparent.
Before spending a single dollar I spent three weeks researching ideas and killed six of them using a three-rule framework:

More than 10 established competitors with resources I can't match? Kill it.
Does it build an asset I can sell, or a job I'm trapped in? If a job, kill it.
Can it generate revenue in 30 days without a product? If not, kill it.

Six ideas died. The newsletter survived all three rules.
So that's what I'm building. A weekly newsletter documenting the whole experiment. Real subscriber counts. Real revenue. Real failures. Every Saturday.
I'm keeping my identity private for professional reasons. The numbers are completely real.
$11.28 spent so far. $988.72 remaining.
Happy to answer questions about the idea-killing framework or the decision to go newsletter over SaaS or anything else.
The newsletter is called The $1K Founder if anyone wants to follow along: the1kfounder.com