Until recently founders had to team up with programmers to build SaaS projects and raise money from VCs.
But is it still the case?
We are a team of 3 business founders. Do you think we can do everything ourselves with AI?
For the last 14 months I’ve been running my SaaS business entirely by myself. No co-founder, no employees, no VA’s.
I’ve gone extremely deep on AI tools especially local models via Ollama. I use them for Product strategy, writing all customer emails, support, and sales copy, code generation...
It got me to $13k MRR.
But lately I’ve hit a ceiling. The AI is incredible at 80% of the work, but the last 20% (the high-stakes things like pricing changes, hiring my first employee, partnership deals) feels risky to delegate. I’m also getting burned out making every single final call alone.
At what revenue did you finally hire your first person? Did you regret waiting?
Are any of you using AI this aggressively in your business?