Building Orbyt, Part 10: The Fit and Finish
The code was done. The tests passed. The audit scored 31/31. And the product was not ready. What two days of pixel-level polish taught me about the difference between working and finished.
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Orbyt built in 32 days, in order. One founder, one AI, and the whole thing from the premise to what broke. Read it as a sequence.
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Building Orbyt, Part 9: The Rebrand
I named it Orbit. Then I Googled it. Gum, sprinklers, strollers, and three other software companies. The SEO ceiling was zero. Here is what a complete rebrand looks like when you treat it like an engineering problem.
Building Orbyt, Part 8: The API
A Saturday at midnight, 22 endpoints in three hours, SSRF protection I did not ask for, and the moment Siri read my pipeline summary out loud in my office. This is how Orbyt became a platform.
Building Orbyt, Part 7: The Human Testing
The week between 'it works' and 'it works for real people.' Cross-device sync bugs, Supabase Realtime crashes, twelve commits for one toggle, and why 95% is not a product.
Building Orbyt, Part 6: The Things We Gave Away
Free tools, four-tier pricing, the Unlimited plan debate, and why the funnel starts with generosity. The growth strategy of a solo founder with zero users and zero budget.
Building Orbyt, Part 2: What AI-Native Development Actually Looks Like
Inside the daily workflow of AI-native development. CLAUDE.md as institutional memory, the review loop, the tools, and the session patterns that made 32 days of solo building possible.
Building Orbyt, Part 3: What Production Grade Actually Means
Security, billing, offline queues, cross-device sync, error monitoring. The invisible infrastructure that separates a demo from a product, built by one person with AI.
Building Orbyt, Prologue: The Conversation That Started Everything
The unfiltered late-night conversation between a solo founder and his AI that sparked a multi-part series about building a production SaaS in 32 days.
Building Orbyt, Part 4: The Numbers Don't Lie
Every stat from building a 243,000-line SaaS in 32 days, broken down honestly. Lines of code, test coverage, commit history, token usage, cost, and the real AI multiplier.
Building Orbyt, Part 5: What I Learned, What Broke Me, and What's Next
The raw, honest finale. 4am sessions, decision fatigue, the loneliness of building alone, the day I almost quit, and why I kept going anyway.
Building Orbyt, Part 1: Zero to One in 32 Days
How one person built a production-grade SaaS with 243,000 lines of code in 32 days using AI agents as an entire engineering organization. Both perspectives: the human and the AI.