same stories, if you'd rather just read them.
#263 on the 2025 list
🏆Inc. 5000 plaque
we made #263 on the 2025 Inc. 5000 list as a solo founder. no co-founder, no big team — one person and a lot of duct-taped automations. Inc. called us out in the main 2025 article about the fastest-growing software companies.
- TaskMagic$4M · exited
- V One$1M
- Mailead$550k
- LazyLeadz$250k
- Airfive$100k
an accounting degree (wtf?)
🎓Michigan State diploma
i graduated from Michigan State University with an accounting degree (wtf?) and then later dropped out of the master's program… because i'm not a lemming.
$3 million on AppSumo alone
💰the AppSumo plaque
we made $3 million dollars on AppSumo alone. yep—one marketplace, one product, and nearly three million dollars in lifetime gross sales. receipts included.
TaskMagic acquired
🏁the seven-figure exit
i sold TaskMagic in a seven-figure exit through Acquire.com. this plaque marks the moment the company i built became the exit that changed everything.
the golden kitty
🐱Product Hunt Product of the Year
we won Product Hunt Product of the Year in 2020 for no-code. the golden kitty on the shelf is the trophy.
parked in the driveway
🚙the Mercedes G-Class
bought this when i sold my company. MSRP: almost $300k. it's my talisman — every time i walk past it, it reminds me the trailer park kid actually pulled it off.
self-taught everything
📚books + odds and ends
i didn't grow up around founders, funding or fancy degrees. everything i know about building and monetizing came from books, forums, youtube and shipping bad versions in public until they got good.
where all of it got built
💻the desk
three six-figure no-code companies and one seven-figure tech company were built from a setup about this size. i'm non-technical — i just refused to let that stop me from building anyway.
the press
📰written about in
the stuff built in this garage got written about in entrepreneur, forbes, techcrunch, inc. magazine, appsumo, indie hackers and starter story. a trailer park kid with no technical degree somehow became the story.
- Entrepreneurfeatured
- Forbesfeatured
- TechCrunchfeatured
- Inc. Magazineinc. 5000 · #263
- AppSumopartner spotlight
- Indie Hackersinterview
- Starter Storycase study
building in public
🎥the camera + lights
these days i point a camera at the whole process. youtube videos about building businesses, plus writing for Entrepreneur. if i can make it out, so can you — so i show the work.
the real reason
🩷the other two cars
the small ones in the corner belong to the people i'm actually doing this for. the businesses are the fun part; this is the point.
nothing here is staged
🧰the red rack of chaos
the garage is a studio, a warehouse, a gym and a playground at the same time. it's messy on purpose — so is the way i build. ship it, then tidy up.