Building aicofounders.co, Fortune 500 IT manager by day, solo SaaS founder by night, shipping after the kid sleeps
Joined July 2009
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Hi, I'm Kyle ...
Just documenting what it actually looks like to go from corporate IT → shipping real products.
2009-2025: Lurked on X. Posted nothing.
2026: Finally building in public
No fake hustle. No overnight success. Just execution and mistakes along the way.
Follow if you want to see projects built in public.
#FoundersJourney #StartupLife #IndieHackers #BuildInPublic #TogetherWeGrow
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Spent the week teaching one of my AI cofounders to read Google Search Console.
Now it pulls my real ranking data, finds every search where I'm stuck on page 2, and tells me exactly which post to write to climb to page 1.
Not "do SEO." The actual queries, the actual positions, the actual gap.
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My teardown AI refused to believe in anything.
Forty ideas in, every promising one scored exactly 52 out of 100.
The model had one number for "good but scary" and used it forty times. I had to write into the prompt: if the idea names a real buyer, a real channel and real pricing, you are allowed to say GO.
Turns out AI needs explicit permission for conviction. So do most founders.
You can teardown your idea too 👇
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I ran the 40 most common startup ideas through my teardown tool this week.
Habit trackers, AI meeting notes, recipe apps, invoice generators.
Not a single GO in the whole batch.
Then I rewrote six of them with a specific buyer and a real distribution wedge, and the verdicts flipped to GO, scores 68 to 72.
Same categories.
The idea was never the problem. The angle was.
Link to the library and where you can run your own teardown below:
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Six months ago, I started building a SaaS while working a 9-5.
Here's what actually moved the needle:
1️⃣ Ship before it's ready. Waiting for perfect killed momentum.
I set weekly release targets and held them.
2️⃣ Protect the hours. 9pm to 1am belongs to the build.
No exceptions.
3️⃣ Users over features. I stopped building in silence and started talking to real people.
Same job. Same 24 hours.
Different priorities.
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This is the WORST time to quit on your idea.
Doubt is at an all time high.
Comparison is at an all time high.
Noise is at an all time high.
Everyone wants you to wait for perfect.
It doesn't mean they're wrong.
But NO ONE builds it for you.
Ship anyway. Learn anyway. Stay in it.
FUTURE LOOKS BRIGHT.
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It's late and I just spent an hour deciding how blurry a number should be.
The teardown score sits behind an email gate now, and the locked page shows a fake blurred 74 so nobody screenshots the real one.
Conversion psychology, one div at a time.
Kid's asleep. Day job soon. This is the "glamour" nobody posts about.
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My own AI told me to pivot my own product.
Ran AI Cofounders through the teardown tool I built.
Verdict: PIVOT, 52 out of 100.
Biggest risk it named: my unit economics.
So I pulled the real production numbers to fight back.
The tool was wrong about my costs, because it didn't know the real numbers.
Idea: First feed it with some test runs data then re-run the teardown :)
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3 years ago I thought @levelsio and @marclou were probably exaggerating on twitter.
people don't actually run companies alone from a laptop in bali or rural france.
that's not how the world works.
now i'm some months into building AI Cofounders, running it from a desk in bulgaria after the kid goes to bed, and yeah it turns out that's exactly how the world works. shame i didn't try sooner.
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my tool checks all 6 and much more in 30 seconds, completely free:
idea.aicofounders.co
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