What 6 months of solo building actually looks like.

I'm launching on Product Hunt next week. Before I do, I want to be honest about what it actually took to get here.

This is not a "I built a SaaS in a weekend" post.

The real numbers:

• 10 live products across 5 verticals

• 139 ingest agents pulling from 300+ data sources

• 27 vertical landing pages

• 26 portal pages

• Nightly pipeline running 3:00–5:05 AM every night without fail

• 18,000+ rows of live intelligence data in the database

• 4 complete portal rebuilds in 2 weeks

• 1 founder

What broke along the way:

• 18 Netlify functions silently failing for weeks because of a stale model string. Found it by accident.

• AIS vessel map replaced 4 times, trying to find one that actually worked

• Payment processor switched from Stripe to PayPal mid-build due to IRS requirements

• Frontend developer wiped the backend JS 3 times in one week

• Rail data APIs returning null for months — had to build around them

What kept me going:

A port director somewhere is spending 2 hours every morning manually pulling data from 7 different tools. He doesn't know I exist yet. But when he finds us, those 2 hours become 5 minutes.

That's worth the 2 AM builds.

What I'd tell anyone starting:

Don't count the hours. Count the problems solved. The hours will terrify you. The problems solved will keep you going. Dompaimne.

Launching CedarPulse on June 17 and CedarOS AI June 18 on Product Hunt.

What's the hardest thing you've pushed through to get your product to launch?