I've been pretty deep in startup culture, content creation, and building for a while now and honestly it's given me quite the mindset shift.
The only app I have live right now is Leaad.co. It's an AI reddit lead generation tool I built with a friend about 10 months ago. We got it working but never publicly released it because we couldn't get approval to use Reddit's API for commercial purposes. That let me down a lot, and I never really attempted to build other projects after that.
I kept coding here and there, helping friends out, doing stuff at my internship, but I fell out of touch with building my own things. The deeper I got into content creation, the further I drifted from programming and that whole scene. I took a huge break around late January, and I missed a ton while I was gone…
The break I took around February, I regret this...
I’ve always heard something that stuck with me though. Think about how many people around you are actually creating projects, putting them online, promoting them, trying to get people to visit. In most circles that's maybe one or two people your whole life. Of course if you live in SF it's a different story, but for most of us it's basically nobody.
And the tools we have right now are insane. Claude, Cursor, Vercel, Stripe. You can go from an idea to a live product with paying users faster than ever. People are hitting $5k, $10k a month building solo or with a friend. The barrier to building has never been lower.
The only thing left is getting it in front of people. And you may think that don't know anything about marketing, scripting, editing videos. But here's the thing. You scroll every single day. You save stuff, share stuff, you feel when something is good. You've spent years training your own brain to know what works. You already have the taste. You just haven't used it yet.
So with this mindset, I started building again.
Polish Homepage
I've been working on something called Polish (https://polishme.ai/) alongside a friend. I've been so locked in that I burned through my entire weekly Claude Code usage in two days lol.
Polish - Resume optimization feature
Polish optimizes your resume, GitHub, and LinkedIn to help you show your value properly. Most people I know are genuinely great at what they do but none of them focus on visibility or “career looksmaxxing”.
Polish - GitHub optimization feature
The goal here is for your resume to catch attention, your GitHub to back your claims up, and your LinkedIn to tie everything together and pull them in even more. Everything works together to create that perfect persona.
We're close to launching and I'll be looking for 10 beta testers to help us make the product better. I'll probably announce them here and on my IG story. If you're interested, join the waitlist below, would mean a lot to me!