Issue #100 - 700 Days, 300,000 Minds, One Ritual

A blank screen and 100 weeks of showing up. Discover the quiet lessons learned while building in public and how they can help you in your own founder journey.

They say it takes ten years to become an overnight success.

I’ve learned it takes 100 weeks of showing up when no one is watching to build something the world eventually notices.

I didn’t plan to feel emotional writing a newsletter issue.

Yet here I am, pausing before the first sentence of Issue #100, realizing that this small weekly commitment quietly became one of the most meaningful things I’ve ever built.

As I write this from Istanbul, I’m sitting with a feeling that’s hard to name. Gratitude. Awe. A quiet disbelief.

This newsletter started the same way many meaningful things do:
a blank screen, a stubborn belief, and no guarantees.

The belief was simple; AI would change how we build businesses forever, and that small teams deserve the same tools as the giants.

Today, that belief lives in the inboxes of 300,000 people around the world.

But this story was never really about the number.

A few weeks ago, something unexpected happened.

This quiet Thursday ritual, written between meetings, on kit…