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The Founder Gazette
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Filed under: solo founder

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Startup news

Tampa solo founder builds AI research platform that exposes when AI models disagree

MelMat asks eight AI models the same question and prints where they disagree. One recent brief came back with 51% consensus, which is rather the point.

№ 260 · 23 September 2026
Startup news

Funding Atlas lists 27,000 funding opportunities in one database

David Raynor spent his career in film. At 75 he has built a search engine for grants, accelerators and angel investors, and says it now holds more than 27,000 entries.

№ 237 · 13 September 2026
Founder story

Founder revives $15,000 browser arcade four years after shutting it

One game, no cofounders, and an EC2 bill that outlived the AWS credits. The arcade is back as a weekend project under a new name.

№ 222 · 11 September 2026
Founder workflow

One founder, 15 Devin agents, $20,000 in a month

Ryan Carson runs his family law software company alone, with a fleet of cloud coding agents and a handwritten to-do list. Here is how the setup is organised and what it costs.

№ 153 · 27 August 2026
Tools & tactics

Solo founder runs CAD software she has never learned, via Codex

Yana Welinder builds garments, vendor outreach and a Stripe-connected storefront on her own, using a written spec and agents that drive the software for her. Here is the workflow she demonstrated.

№ 109 · 21 August 2026
Founder stories

Gumroad cut 75% of staff, then became a good business

Sahil Lavingia raised $8m at 19 to build a billion-dollar company. He ended up running it alone from Utah — and says that was the better outcome.

№ 83 · 17 August 2026
Startup news

2.9 million new US businesses filed in five months

Registered Agents Inc. counts nearly 2.9 million formations in the first five months of 2026. Most of them will never hire anyone.

№ 61 · 12 August 2026