Four Products, Six Months, One Server: What I Learned as a Solo Founder

Six months ago I had an idea for a local business audit tool. Today I'm running four live products on a single VPS, sending hundreds of outreach emails a week, and still writing most of the code myself. Here's what that actually looks like. The Products LocalMention is an AI visibility audit for local businesses. It checks whether a business shows up when people ask ChatGPT, Perplexity, or Google's AI Overview for recommendations — and generates a detailed report showing exactly where they're visible and where they're not. FixMyRecord is a personal reputation scanner. It checks data broker sites, background check databases, and court record aggregators for personal information exposure, then automates the removal process. Resilience is a gamified reentry support platform — quest systems, skill trees, and mentor oversight designed to make the transition from incarceration to stability feel achievable. Built on React and Supabase. SetupLens is a stock scanner that runs five different tra