What are solo founders actually building?
Find ideas, compare projects, meet their makers.
71 waves452 projects mapped
Organize everyday work
Link to this groupProtect focus and sustain effort
Users add structure or friction to keep daily effort aligned with their intentions.
Retrieve what you already saved
Saved material becomes useful when people can find it again in context.
Attach a consequence to daily behavior
Rewards, access and stakes make progress change something visible.
Make a stream of news navigable
Grouping, geography and context help users follow events across stories.
Build a personal index of things you collect
Collection software preserves the identity and progress of individual items.
The whole landscape
Keep the September 2026 map nearby, or explore every project on the interactive board.
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.