How We Built a $100K/Week Dev Operation Solo (With AI)

Everyone asks how a solo founder with a GED runs a development operation shipping $100K worth of work weekly. No CS degree. No VC backing. Just AI tools and obsessive execution.

Here's the unfiltered story.

🎯 The Starting Point

In early 2025, I decided to build Local Home Buyers USA — a transparency-first real estate company. The problem? Every developer I hired from Fiverr couldn't execute my vision. They'd take weeks to deliver broken code.

So I taught myself.

🤖 The AI Stack

Here's exactly what I use daily:

• Claude (Anthropic) — Complex reasoning, architecture decisions, long-form code generation
• GPT-4 (OpenAI) — Quick iterations, debugging, alternative approaches
• Cursor IDE — Real-time code completion with AI context
• Gemini — Research and documentation parsing

The Key Insight

AI doesn't replace thinking. It amplifies execution.

I still architect every system. I make every design decision. I own every line of code. AI just makes me 10x faster at implementing those decisions.

⚡ The Tech Stack

Everything runs on Cloudflare Workers:

// Example: Our lead processing worker
export default {
  async fetch(request, env) {
    const lead = await request.json();
    
    // Validate, score, route
    const score = await scoreLead(lead, env);
    await notifySlack(lead, score, env);
    await storeLead(lead, env.DB);
    
    return new Response(JSON.stringify({ success: true }));
  }
}

Key architecture principles I learned:

1. Multiple small workers — Not monoliths. My first worker was 10,000+ lines. Rookie mistake.
2. Edge-first — Everything runs at the edge. 50ms response times.
3. Slack as CRM — Why pay for Salesforce when Slack + Workers does it better?

📊 The Results

All from ~$20K total marketing spend. The tech paid for itself 10x over.

🛠️ What I Built

• CEO Dashboard with 8+ API integrations (FRED, stocks, crypto, weather, email, calendar)
• Custom property valuation engine
• AI-powered chatbot trained on company knowledge
• Real-time live data ticker (crypto, weather, time)
• Slack-based CRM with automated lead scoring
• 270+ blog posts with interactive calculators

❓ FAQ

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