How I Built a Global AI Fortune Telling Website as a One-Person Company

<p>Hey folks! 👋<br /> As a solo developer building for the global market, balancing performance, shipping speed, and server costs is always a tricky triangle. Recently, I launched

<p>Let's be real: the current AI coding workflow is tedious. </p> <p>You hit a bug. You copy your code. You tab out to ChatGPT/Claude. You paste it. You copy the fix. You paste it

<p>Eight months ago I was frustrated. I do strength training, <br /> running, and BJJ — and I needed three different apps to <br /> track everything. Strava for runs, Strong for

<blockquote> <p>PDF OCR, semantic mind maps, RAG search, and a hierarchical tag system — all generated through conversations with an AI app builder.</p> </blockquote> <p>I want to

<p>Every Monday I'd sit down for our team sync and draw a blank.</p> <p>What did I actually work on last week? How many hours did I put in? Was I in flow or just firefighting?</p>

<p>Nearly 20 years of design experience, now running a solo AI creative studio from Berlin<br /> The product stack: 6 digital products, 116 merch items, 98 blog articles, all one

<p>A few months ago I was trying to sell a second-hand PlayStation. I spent 45 minutes searching eBay, scrolling Facebook Marketplace, trying to figure out if €280 was a fair

<p>I recently launched <a href="https://www.oynava.com" rel="noopener noreferrer">OYNAVA</a>, a free HTML5 game portal with 6,000+ games. Here's the architecture, the cost traps I