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01
What You Are Actually Building
18:02
02
The Solo Founder Equation
16:35
03
Product-Market Fit for Solo Founders
14:19
04
The Three Loops: Discover, Build, Distribute
17:03
05
The Five Product Risks
14:15
06
Where Solo Founder Ideas Come From
13:38
07
Founder-Market-Engineering Fit
13:00
08
The Solo Founder Idea Filter
14:12
09
Choosing a Wedge You Can Build Alone
14:55
10
Market Selection for a One-Person Company
14:25
11
Discovery for Builders Who Want to Code Too Soon
16:27
12
The Problem Interview
16:26
13
Workflow Discovery
15:49
14
Current Alternatives and the Build Opportunity
13:55
15
Discovery Synthesis for Solo Founders
18:21
16
The Product Thesis
19:31
17
Positioning Before Product
16:44
18
Pricing Before Overbuilding
14:44
19
Distribution Strategy for Solo Founders
17:55
20
Business Model and Operational Burden
15:57
21
The Boring Stack Doctrine
15:48
22
Architecture for Learning
18:54
23
Build, Buy, Borrow, Fake, or Defer
16:31
24
The Solo Founder Technical Baseline
13:48
25
Data Model as Product Strategy
15:19
26
Instrumentation from Day One
18:50
27
Security, Privacy, and Trust for the Solo Founder
17:56
28
AI-Assisted Engineering Without Losing Judgment
18:06
29
Prototype to Answer One Question
14:25
30
The Code-to-Evidence Ladder
16:06
31
MVPs for Solo Founders
15:24
32
UX and Design Systems for Solo Founders
15:12
33
Quality Bar: Minimum Viable, Lovable, Safe, and Trustworthy
17:50
34
Early User Recruitment for Solo Founders
16:44
35
Launching Without a Team
14:30
36
Onboarding as the First Product
15:51
37
Support as Discovery
16:01
38
One-Person Operations
20:45
39
Reliability Without Overengineering
16:45
40
Metrics That Matter Before PMF
18:37
41
Building the PMF Dashboard
16:23
42
Retention Analysis for Builders
15:52
43
Revenue Quality
13:50
44
Qualitative PMF Signal
14:14
45
PMF Diagnosis
14:31
46
Technical Debt as Product Debt
13:35
47
Refactoring After Evidence
15:30
48
Pivoting When You Have Already Built
14:04
49
Killing Features and Products
14:59
50
Signs You Are Moving from Search to Scale
24:10
51
Hardening the Product
18:20
52
Hiring the First Help
14:26
53
Preparing the Codebase for Other Humans
16:36
54
Founder Evolution After PMF
14:47
55
B2B SaaS for Solo Founders
16:38
56
Consumer Products for Solo Founders
15:04
57
Marketplaces for Solo Founders
16:46
58
AI-Native Products for Solo Founders
20:35
59
Developer Tools for Solo Founders
18:00
60
Internal Tools Becoming Products
15:10
61
Regulated and Trust-Heavy Products
15:56
