I Did It Again
4 apps, 3 months, zero lines of code, -$200 in revenue
If you know me, you might know me as this guy…
As a non-technical complainor, I spent 4 years begging people to build MetaGame. After MetaGame failed (it was built tho!), I thought I‘d focus on things I actually CAN do myself, which was content. That was the beginning of my documentary arc.
About a year later, I shipped Built on Ethereum, a documentary about usecases & applications of Ethereum. It didn‘t rack up the views, but it was decently received and decently funded, so I thought that was it!
Plan was:
Every 8 months, we ship a new Ethereum documentary
They will be focused on different narratives or countries
Devconnect Argentina was coming up, Argentina has a good amount of adoption and very valid usecases - so Ethereum in Argentina was born.
We spent 2 months & >$10k to film it
We raised a grand total of $600!
At the same time, i suffered massive, life changing, portfolio losses.
I‘m not talking about ETH, I‘m talking about these smallcaps.
Btw if you listened to me, you might have made 5x and sold, not me tho!
So there I was…
After 10 years in crypto:
No really successful projects
Latest venture not funded/failed
Portfolio back at early 2017 level
Feeling like a complete failure
As mentioned previously, I spent a few months feeling completely lost. Really not knowing what to do with my life next, just couch-potatoing.
Then I opened a terminal.
The terminal didn‘t tell me “let me check in with the team and get back to you”, the terminal didn‘t care about the fact I have thousands per month to pay it to build things.
Shipper peth arc
Four apps. Three months. Zero lines of code written by hand.
Roadmapr
Exists because I lived the problem. Projects drowning in product suggestions & ideas that are hard to prioritize between. So I built a tool where people add suggestions & upvote or downvote with tokens. Not just sharing opinions, but putting skin in the game.
People can create boards & sub-board for their projects, there‘s an API and widget people can integrate inside their websites or apps, and there‘s a Farcaster bot that people can tag to have items added to registered project roadmaps.
AI: The Game
A multiplayer game where you race AI agents to reach AGI, with all the trappings of RPG & strategy games and the world run by an LLM gamemaster generating events that affect all players, narrating missions, remembering what you did & adapting players behavior.
You run missions by writing good prompts, build various types of buildings & businesses, you level up, unlock skill trees, craft items, sabotage other players & invest resources into research to reach AGI.
PumpIt
Happened because my coach only gave me a Google Sheet to work out of, and every workout app was either overbloated or paid. So I made a no bullshit simple workout tracking app to scratch my own itch.
You can also stake USDC on your workout goals and challenge friends. Has a $4.99/mo pro tier with AI that exactly zero people paid for so far, but I don‘t care, yet.
peth.wtf
Just a basic website about myself that I can send to people, shows all my previous projects & work related experiences, why I got into crypto, services I can offer + you can talk to AI me.
MetaOS
I was getting lost switching between 10 terminal tabs all with “Flawd” in their name, so I had a simple idea - build a kanban board where each vertical is a project, and each contains as many terminal windows stacked vertically + TODO doc from my Obsidian below.
A few weeks later - it‘s an absolute monstrosity with with terminal windows, content pipelines, all kinds of analytics, AI advisors etc; basically a personal operating system including 24 cron jobs & 35+ AI skills
More soon but this might be THE app that I build.
100 days of shipping
Can a completely non-technical person vibecode their way to $2k/mo?
If I pull it off, it proves something real about where we are right now. If I don’t, at least the documentation will be entertaining.
But this isn’t just my experiment!
🐙 Onwards!
If you tried vibecoding a year ago, believe me it‘s not the same thing anymore.
If you’ve been sitting on an idea for months. If you’ve been waiting for a cofounder, or funding, or “the right time.” If you keep telling yourself you’re not technical enough… You should know these are just excuses now.
Start your own 100 days of shipping. Pick a problem. Open Claude or whatever. Build the ugliest possible version. Ship it. Then fix it at 2am when someone DMs you “it doesn’t work.”
Nobody skips the 2am part.
Tag me when you start. I want to watch.
Now it’s your turn.
Much love ❤️,
peth