👋 Hi, I'm Kartik, a software engineer

I make profitable apps, solo with AI.

I build real software with AI, and show you exactly how.

Most people online sell you the highlight reel. I ship real, profitable products solo, document every decision, cost, and screw-up, and hand you the whole playbook, free. Want to know how I actually make them pay? Let's connect.

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127,000 words written· 54 chapters, free· built in public· every mistake documented
Kartik Kant
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Free · the whole playbook

Launch your app, end to end.

The exact path from a raw idea to a live product people pay for: what to build, how to ship it to the App Store and the web, how to charge, and how to get users. Every decision, every real cost, every mistake, drawn from products I built myself, including where they went wrong. No fluff, no paywall.

Idea → livethe full path
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The workbench

Everything in progress, with its real status. No "coming soon" that means abandoned. When something dies, it gets marked dead and the lesson goes in the handbook.

Founder's Handbook complete · free The 54-chapter guide above, and the honest post-mortem engine for everything below.
SOLIS in development A Stoic mental-training app for iOS: 90 days of structured lessons, streaks, and visible proof of change. Built solo with AI. The handbook's case study.
Subtitler early design A fast, browser-based subtitle editor. Still at the plan-and-validate stage, exactly where the handbook says to keep it.
The content engine building A programmatic pipeline turning written lessons into short-form video at volume. One body of work, many formats.

About

I'm a solo founder working with AI as the whole team: engineering, design, content, research. The leverage is real: one person can now build what used to take five. What AI can't supply is the will to ship. I learned that the expensive way, and wrote 127,000 words so you don't have to.

This site is the one place everything lives: the handbook, the apps, the experiments. If you're building something yourself, start with the handbook; it's free and it's honest.

I'm building a community of ambitious builders.

People who'd rather ship than talk about it. I build in public, share every decision and every mistake as it happens, including how I make apps actually turn a profit. Come follow along, ask me anything, and let's make things that launch and pay. Want to know how I do it? Connect with me.