Solo founder.
Full-stack hacker.
Shipping
I'm a one-person studio building AI products, free tools, and the occasional MVP for founders who'd rather move at weekend speed than Q3 roadmap speed. Currently shipping ctrpilot and giving away free YouTube Shorts tools nobody asked permission to charge for.
The pitch fits in a tweet.
I'm a solo developer who has somehow tricked the internet into paying me to write code in my pajamas. I don't have a co-founder, a VC deck, or a series of pivots to explain. I have a laptop, a cheap server, and a chronic inability to leave ideas alone.
If you've got an idea sitting in a Notion doc collecting dust — let's pull it out and put it on the internet. I move fast, charge fairly, and ship things that actually work on Monday morning.
Things I've shipped & still run.
reelsmakerai
Turn a script, a blog post, or a half-baked tweet into ready-to-post Reels & Shorts with auto captions, b-roll, and voiceover. Built for creators who'd rather hit publish than edit.
ctrpilot
A/B test thumbnails, titles, and metadata for YouTube creators — generate variants, ship them, measure, repeat. Turns the messy job of "what should this video be called" into a single dashboard.
free tools
The "no signup, no email" corner. Shorts → MP4, Shorts downloader, and more YT utilities I built for myself and quietly left running. Bring your own coffee.
next ship
Something between an analytics dashboard and a creator coach. If you'd like to be on the early-tester list, the terminal below knows how to put you there. (try subscribe)
YouTube Shorts → MP4
Paste a Shorts URL, get a clean MP4. No watermark, no signup, no "upgrade to download in HD."
Download YouTube Shorts
Save any YouTube Short to your device in seconds. For creators repurposing, swipe files, or that one Short you keep rewatching.
more YT tools
Transcript ripper, audio extractor, thumbnail grabber — quietly cooking. Newsletter subscribers get them first.
got a tool idea?
Got something you wish existed for free? Email me — if it's small enough, I might just build it this weekend.
Why founders hire me, specifically.
1 person, 0 handoffs
You talk to the person typing the code. No PM, no account manager, no "let me sync with the team and get back to you."
Ship every 2-3 days
Live staging URL from day one. You poke it on your phone in bed. If we both go quiet for a week, something's broken — fire me.
Fixed price, fixed scope
You know what the invoice is on day one. No "ah, that's extra." No surprise change requests. If we add scope, we agree first.
You own everything
Code in your GitHub. Domain in your Namecheap. Stripe in your dashboard. I leave keys, not dependencies.
Live products as receipts
reelsmakerai, ctrpilot, and the free tools above are mine, in production, paying their own bills. I eat what I cook.
30 days post-launch
Bug fixes, deploy issues, that one customer who broke Stripe webhooks — all included. I don't ghost on day 22.
MVP build plans.
Sprint MVP
Validate the idea, fast. One core flow, real auth, real payments, real users.
- 1 user-facing flow (the core thing)
- Auth + Stripe + transactional email
- Landing page that doesn't embarrass you
- Deploy to your domain
- 14 days post-launch fixes
- no design system, no admin panel
Launch MVP
Go to market. A real product with the rough edges sanded, ready for paying users.
- Everything in Sprint
- 3–5 user flows + admin panel
- 1 AI / LLM integration (chat, generation, scoring)
- Onboarding emails + analytics wired
- Polished landing page + copy
- 30 days post-launch support
- Launch-day handholding
Embedded engineer
You've launched. Now you need a force-multiplier who's there every week, in your Slack, shipping.
- ~20 focused hrs/week on your product
- Shared Slack channel, async-first
- Weekly sprint, weekly demo
- Bug triage + on-call for prod fires
- Architectural calls when you need them
- Pause anytime, no fees
Ways to work with me.
MVP for founders
You bring the idea & the Stripe account. I bring the keyboard. 2–4 week sprints, fixed scope, real users by the end.
Full-stack contract
Drop me on a feature, a migration, an AI integration, or a Stripe-shaped mystery. Hourly or weekly, async-first.
Ship-it course
A no-fluff cohort on going from idea → live SaaS in 30 days. Built on the exact stack I use to ship my own products.
Templates & boilerplates
Pre-wired Next.js + Stripe + auth + LLM starters. The shape of a real SaaS without the first two weeks of yak shaving.
Sponsor a free tool
Put your dev tool, host, or AI API in front of a niche but loyal audience of indie hackers and YouTubers via my free tools.
Co-build a product
You've got a niche, an audience, or a problem. I've got nights and a server. Rev-share or equity, case by case.
Newsletter
One letter a month. What I shipped, what flopped, what I learned. No "10 AI tools you must use today" energy.
Try the terminal
This site has a real shell. Type help, browse projects, hire me, or just sudo make me a sandwich.
How an MVP gets built.
scope
30-minute call, then a one-page spec. We agree on what "v1" actually means and what we cut.
build
I ship every 2–3 days to a staging URL. You poke it, comment in a shared doc, I keep typing.
polish
Stripe, auth, transactional email, a landing page that doesn't look like Bootstrap 3. The boring stuff.
ship & handoff
We launch on a Tuesday. I hand you the keys, a runbook, and 30 days of post-launch support.
// what I'm into
small teams. weird ideas. boring stacks. shipping over scoping. building in public. tools you'd want even if I didn't make them.
// what I'm not
an agency. a thought leader. someone who needs a 6-week discovery phase to start typing.