Nine months in, one person, no outside money. I publish what I try and what it costs.
What they did before this
Six years writing documentation at two software companies, then a year building tools nobody asked me to build. This is the first one people paid for.
- What they built
- AI writing tool
- Where they are
- Porto, Portugal
- Backed here since
- May 2026
Coming and going each month
How many stay
These are ranges, not exact figures. A range is what the founder can prove every week, and a number nobody can stand behind is worth less than no number at all.
Money the business makes each month
€1–2.5KDirection only — the range above is the part that is checked.Manually verified · 29 JulShown to backers only
- What is left after costsLocked
- Months of money in the bankLocked
- Share of money from the biggest customerLocked
A solo founder shows these to the people paying them. Back them and they appear here, with the same badge saying how each one was checked.
You are charged €20.00. After sales tax and the card fee, €15.43 is left to split.
- Pays for the experiment
- €10.81
- Goes to the founder to live on
- €2.31
- Keeps this site running
- €2.31
Nothing in it yet. The pot fills from the monthly payments of the people backing a solo founder, and nobody has yet.
Recurring monthly until you cancel, charged on the day you start and on that date each month. Accounts are not open yet, so cancelling means replying to the founder's receipt — the money is taken by their payment provider, not by us. If they stop answering, your bank can revoke the mandate or reverse a charge without their agreement. The month in progress is not refunded.
Who pays them each month
None recorded here yet.
This counts pledges recorded here by hand. Because the founder's own payment provider takes the money and never tells us, yours may not appear even though it went through — if you are backing them and see nothing, nothing is wrong at your end.
Ways in — A solo founder sets these
- €8Reader
- €20Supporter
- €45EditorCan suggest
- €90Editor at largeCan suggest
- —Founder's circle
Thesis never holds your money — the founder's own payment provider collects all of it, and we check how the experiment share is spent. The 15% platform line is what running this site would cost. There is no way to collect it during the pilot, so today that share stays with the founder too.
