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A solo founder's first 30 days on Master

Sam Okafor·Jun 09, 2026·7 min read

Day-by-day notes from a founder who shipped a paid product without writing code.

Week one was scoping. One page, one job to be done, no database. The temptation is to describe the whole product in the first prompt; the faster path is to get one screen you would actually show a customer.

Week two added Master Cloud: auth, a single table with row-level security on by default, and a billing screen. The agent wrote the migration and the policies together, which is where most hand-rolled projects leak data.

Weeks three and four were pure iteration on feedback. Small prompts, visual edits for spacing, and a checkpoint before every risky change so rolling back cost nothing.