Startup diaries week #5 & #6: ML Models & Solo Building
One month into building HyperBay… and the reality of being a solo founder has started to settle in. These last two weeks have been a mix of solo working, deep work, small breakthroughs, and real personal growth.
In this Week 5–6 update, I talk about:
• What working alone in a two-person co-working cabin actually feels like
• Building my first real ML models - a JointBERT intent classifier and a CatBoost persona detector
• How Cursor helped generate early synthetic data and accelerate development
• Why I started working with an Executive Coach again, and how it’s already improving my planning and output
• How staying consistent with fitness is giving me the energy and clarity to build every day
• A quick roundup of the most interesting AI developments from the last two weeks
This phase isn’t glamorous. It’s raw, quiet, and sometimes lonely. But small wins are adding up — and the momentum is becoming real.
If you’re building something on your own, or thinking about taking the leap, this one is for you.
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