The complete record, vol. 2026
Independent software company of one. Ten products across five years — from iOS tooling and cloud storage to AI products, developer tools, and native Mac apps — three of them acquired, every one of them with paying customers. Plus commissioned builds for clients, including the team that bought GPTsuite.
“The best in iOS sideloading.”
A subscription platform that let iPhone users install the apps Apple wouldn’t allow — a curated app library plus on-demand IPA signing, backed by automated enterprise-certificate rotation engineered to dodge revokes. Stripe billing, Discord and Telegram bots, and a full admin console.
“Effortless cloud storage for your digital world.”
A cloud storage and sharing service that encrypted every file client-side before it touched S3 — with GPT-powered natural-language search (“photos from yesterday”), signed share links, two-factor auth, and Stripe and Square billing across three tiers. Won paying subscribers, then retired.
“An entire AI toolkit. One price. Forever.”
Eleven AI tools in one app — chat, file chat with RAG, image generation, SQL and regex generation, translation, and more — sold as a one-time lifetime purchase against a sea of subscriptions. Privacy-first: bring your own API key, nothing stored.
“One tap. One-of-a-kind wallpapers.”
An iOS app that generates unique wallpapers with Stable Diffusion XL and GPT-written prompts — pick a theme, tap once, and let Shortcuts automation refresh your wallpaper on its own schedule. Freemium with StoreKit and Stripe subscriptions; sold copies, then retired.
“Long videos in. Viral shorts out.”
An AI platform that turned long-form YouTube videos into vertical TikToks and Reels in seconds — transcript analysis to find the best moments, MediaPipe active-speaker tracking to auto-reframe faces, and GPT-4 scripting whole “Reddit Story” and “Would You Rather” formats from scratch. Over 5,000 videos generated before it wound down.
“Monetize your influence.”
A two-sided marketplace connecting creators with brands — custom storefronts with live follower metrics pulled from Instagram, TikTok, and X, an end-to-end deal workflow with in-app negotiation and scheduling, and Stripe Connect payouts at a flat 5% cut. Built in a five-week sprint.
“The Vercel experience on your $5 server.”
A self-hosted deployment platform: connect a repo, pick a VPS, and Outlap handles builds, automatic SSL, health-checked zero-downtime releases, and one-click rollback — all through a ~30 MB Go agent running on your own hardware. No vendor lock-in, no usage bill.
“Screen recordings that edit themselves.”
A native macOS recorder that turns raw captures into polished product demos — automatic zoom and pan, smooth cursor motion with click highlights, studio-grade gradient backgrounds, 4K export. One-time $59, no subscription, built entirely in Swift.
“See every request your Mac makes.”
A native macOS HTTP/HTTPS debugging proxy — a modern take on Charles and Proxyman with SQLite-backed “time travel” session replay, conditional breakpoints, a security scanner that flags weak JWTs and exposed API keys, and a sandboxed multi-tab browser for capturing traffic cleanly.
“Hire AI developers. Watch them code.”
A platform for hiring a team of autonomous AI developer agents — each with its own sandboxed dev environment, live IDE and terminal view, and Linear-style task board, orchestrated through a visual workflow builder. Built and acquired within the year.
“An all-in-one AI suite, on WhatsApp and Telegram.”
An OpenAI chatbot reachable over WhatsApp, Telegram, and the web, alongside an AI smart-contract auditor and an automated short-form video generator that scripts, voices, and assembles vertical videos — all wired to Stripe subscriptions for a crypto-token community.
“Your AI social media intelligence assistant.”
An AI dashboard for following influencers across Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok without the scrolling — continuous monitoring distilled into AI summaries, trend and hashtag analysis, a cross-platform content timeline, and an assistant you can ask about any creator’s recent posts.
“Manage AI employees like a human team.”
A five-week engagement building an AI-agent management platform end to end — a “hire an agent” wizard with role templates and autonomy levels, a visual workflow builder, RAG knowledge bases, 19+ integrations with human-in-the-loop approvals, and credit-based Stripe billing.
Products should feel engineered, not assembled. Swift on the Mac, Go on the server, and interfaces that respect the platform they live on.
Two of these products sold for a single fair price in a subscription-fatigued market. People remember software that doesn’t bill them monthly.
Clean architecture, real revenue, and an ops loop that runs without you — that’s what makes a product acquirable. Three exits so far.