michaelastreiko

1. Cash in the bank monthly 2. separate personal vs business money 3. three numbers that matter: cash, money in, money out. No fancy dashboards

Why I cannot use just claude or chatgpt for this? With same references to standard SAFE template and best practices

You can do send emails to 50 funds and apply to YC for example. Based on the feedback you receive you can decide what to do next. It can be that you do not see how to grow business beyond $50M but at this stage VCs invest in founders, not ideas.

Love the one-person stack energy. A small, known surface you can rebuild from muscle memory beats a pile of half-configured GUIs when you’re shipping solo.

There’s something satisfying about a one-person stack that keeps the path from idea to shipped tool short. Small, focused utilities can remove a surprising amount of busywork.