Explainer · Jacksonville, Florida

How one engineer ended up shipping everything, solo

I ship products and agents in public. AI engineer building multi-user SaaS, trading systems and native iOS apps, from design to deploy.

By Ryan Lugg · Open to AI engineering roles

Illustration of Ryan Lugg at his desk
Fig. 1 · The builder, at work
Full timesince Aug 2026

The numbers

What two months of building solo looks like

@rxtrades · Pine Script indicator library60 days In sixty days, Ryan pushed 364 commits to a library of thirteen shared modules that indicators copy from rather than reimplement. Since going full time in August 2026, he has built three apps for Apple platforms and a string of web products, solo.
364commits / 60 days
364commits in 60 days to the indicator library
13shared Pine Script modules
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8Google AI courses on Coursera, certified

Build

Every product and site, newest first

Right now

What's on the bench

Languages

Python, TypeScript, JavaScript, Swift, Bash, HTML, CSS

Frameworks and data

React, Next.js, Node.js, SwiftUI, Tailwind, Supabase, PostgreSQL, SQLite, pandas

AI and services

Anthropic, OpenAI, MCP, Stripe, Telegram, Discord

Infrastructure

Vercel, Cloudflare, Git, GitHub