What are solo founders actually building?

Find ideas, compare projects, meet their makers.

71 waves452 projects mappedProjects can belong to more than one wave.

Build the product

Link to this group

The whole landscape

Keep the September 2026 map nearby, or explore every project on the interactive board.

Open full-size mapDownload PDF

How we found these waves

The starting point
Founder networking threads, quote posts and related posts, followed by project websites. The September 18 research reviewed 854 records: 851 unique projects and three duplicates.
What we could learn
485 projects had enough evidence for the offering, audience and approach; 177 had a meaningful description with gaps; 189 lacked enough information. 440 projects fit the 70 recurring ideas in this edition.
What a wave means
A shared task, audience need or approach, checked against each project’s sources. It describes a pattern in this catalogue, not measured market growth. Some projects fit several waves; others have a distinct idea or need more information.
Follow the evidence
Open a wave for its criteria and source excerpts, then a project for the original sources and its builders. Counts above reflect the current published catalogue; the downloadable map records the research edition.
Browse every project in the catalogue →