You don't need a co-founder. You need people who get it.
The building-stage room for solopreneurs mid-build — a roadmap from idea to shipped, a mastermind of people building right now, and the coaching to keep you moving. No 3.000€ accelerator. No giving away equity. Seats are limited and every room is kept small. You apply — and if you're a fit, you're in.
Building alone is where most ideas quietly die.
You've got the idea, maybe half a product. You're building it yourself, with AI, probably nights and weekends around the job. And every time you get stuck — is this the right thing to build, why won't this work, is any of this good — there's no one to ask. No co-founder, no team, no one building the same way you are. The tutorials don't answer back. Momentum leaks out. Most ideas don't die because they were bad. They die because someone built them alone until they ran out of steam.
You can't afford a co-founder. You don't need one.
The old story says you need a technical co-founder, a team, or 3.000€ to get help. You don't. What actually stops most people isn't money or skills — it's building in a vacuum, with no one to keep them honest or moving. That's cheap to fix. A room of people building right now, a clear roadmap, and someone who has done it standing in the corner. That is what turns "one day" into shipped.
A room of people building right now. And the map from idea to shipped.
The Forge is where you build with company instead of in silence — a small group of solopreneurs at the same stage as you, a step-by-step roadmap from validating the idea to putting a real product in the world, and the coaching and tools to get past each wall. Not a course you watch alone. A room that expects you back next week.
The road from "idea in a notebook" to "it's live."
The Forge walks you through the build, one stage at a time.
Is this worth building. Prove it before you waste months.
The MVP, with AI doing the heavy lifting, step by step.
Get it live, in front of real people, for real.
When it's live, you graduate — into The Room, where the people who've shipped work on getting paid, going full-time, and scaling. The Forge gets you to the start line. The Room is everything after.
Everything you need to build without building alone.
A small group at the same stage, building right now. Weekly. Same faces, real accountability.
Twice a month, bring the thing that's stuck, get unstuck on screen.
Watch real products get built with AI, start to finish, and copy the steps.
Templates, checklists and prompts for each stage, so you never stare at a blank page.
Always on. Ask at 11pm, someone building the same way answers.
This only works if the room is small, and everyone in it is actually building.
A build room is worthless the moment it fills with people who are only thinking about it. So we don't let it. Every room is capped at a handful of seats. Every application is read. We're not checking your bank balance — we're checking that you're really building, that you'll show up, and that you'll do the work between sessions. That bar is the whole point. It's why the room moves, and why the people in it are worth building next to.
What gets you a seat.
If that's you, 47€ was never going to be the hard part.
Two ways to build. Pick your speed.
Build at your own pace, with a room around you, for as long as it takes. For when you want company and guardrails, not a big bill.
Build in 90 days, done-with-you, Luis hands-on, deadline and all. For when you want speed and can pay for it.
See the AcceleratorSame road. Two speeds. Start in The Forge — jump to the Accelerator any time you want to move fast.
- You've got an idea or a half-built product and you're building it solo.
- You're doing it with AI, around a job, and can't tell anyone.
- You don't want to give away equity or drop 3.000€ to get started.
- You keep stalling because there's no one to keep you moving.
- You want someone to build it for you.
- You've already shipped and you're chasing revenue — that's The Room.
- You want to read about building instead of doing it.
A few honest questions about what you're building and where you're stuck.
Every one, personally. If it's a fit, we send an invitation.
You're placed in the build room for your stage, and you start.
Built by someone who did it with no one. So you don't have to.
Luis lost around 250k€ when a venture went under, moved back in with his parents, and rebuilt from a laptop — solo, with AI, for around 2.750€ in tools. What he built is roughly 2M€ of software. It's called FIKR, and you're reading this on it. He built it with no room, no co-founder, no one to ask. The Forge is the room he wishes he'd had.
Which room is yours?
One question sorts it — have you shipped a product yet?
The paid express lane through the build. Skip the slow road when you want to move now. Optional — jump in from The Forge any time.
See the AcceleratorThe Forge gets you to the start line. The Room is everything after. Not sure? Start where you are — you graduate up as you go.
You don't buy your way in. You earn your seat — then it's 47€/month.
One price, once you're accepted: your build room, live coaching, build-alongs, the roadmap, the tools, the wider room. No tiers. Seats are limited and rooms are capped, so we open them in intakes — when a room is full, it's full, and the rest join the waitlist. Cancel any month. The only thing you're really paying for is not doing this by yourself.