6 months ago I quit my job to build products solo. The coding was fine. Marketing I could figure out. What almost made me give up was the silence.

Not "I'm lonely" silence. More like — I just spent three weeks on a feature and I genuinely can't tell if it's brilliant or stupid. And there's nobody to ask.

The research

I started reading everything solo founders were posting online. Reddit, HN, IndieHackers, Twitter. Thousands of posts. Same three problems everywhere:

1. No accountability
You set goals on Monday. By Wednesday they're gone. Nobody notices, nobody cares. Without a co-founder or team, goals are just wishes.

2. Generic advice
"Have you tried content marketing?" Thanks. Very helpful. The advice you get from people who don't know your product is almost always useless. Not because they don't care — they just don't have context.

3. Communities built for broadcasting, not connection
You scroll, read, maybe post something. It gets 2 upvotes. You move on. There are hundreds of founder communities, but they're all optimized for content consumption, not for actual relationships.

What actually worked

The one thing that changed my productivity was finding another founder at my exact stage. We did weekly 30-minute calls. Simple format:

• What did you do this week?
• What's the plan for next week?
• What's blocking you?

My output doubled. Just knowing someone would ask me on Friday whether I did the thing I said I'd do on Monday — that was enough.

Then he got busy, the calls stopped, and I went back to building alone.

What I'm building

So I'm making a platform called ADot to solve this at scale.

The core: AI matches you with a founder at your stage (pre-launch? first 10 users? trying to hit $1K MRR?) for structured weekly check-ins. Not networking events. Not another Slack group. Actual accountability with someone who gets it.

On top of that:

• Community feed where milestones get seen (not buried)
• AI recommendations based on what similar products did to grow
• Open-source founder tools (pain point analyzer, competitor tracker)

Current status

Just launched the landing page. Validating whether this resonates or if I'm projecting.

If you've ever built alone and wished someone was in the trenches with you: https://adot-lp.vercel.app

Feedback >> signups. Tell me why this won't work.