7 days of runway left: I locked myself in and built the thing

Ten days ago I posted about going all-in on Cirrondly for the AWS competition.

Here's what happened since.

I barely slept. I worked Monday through Monday. The agent works now connects to your AWS account, finds the waste, explains it in plain English, and executes the fix with your approval. No dashboards. No DevOps degree.

A few hours ago someone posted a $15,000 S3 bill from a DDoS attack on r//aws. 217 upvotes. 193 comments. For me that's not just a viral post, it's the market validation I see every week. AWS costs explode silently. No circuit breaker, no alert that fires in time, no tool that feels built for founders. By the time you see the bill, the damage is done.

That's exactly what I've been building against.

As for money: I've managed to pay this month's rent. But my savings are running out. I've been looking for work and freelance assignments at the same time, as many of you recommended. There's nothing concrete yet.

You can't imagine how tired I am doing everything at once: marketing, design, programming, articles, mock-ups, calls to potential clients, applying for jobs.

The anxiety is real. I don't think it will ever go away. I think you just learn to deal with it better. Being a founder is like being bipolar all day long. One minute I feel like I'm going to make it, that it's my time to hit a home run, and the next minute I feel like I'm running out of innings (baseball metaphor).

8 days until the deadline. The product is built. Now it needs to reach people.

If you're in the AWS builder, upvotes help: https://builder.aws.com/content/3AUmmi7bwtRwfwR8gsTSQno5joQ

Waitlist at cirrondly.com

Still here. Still building.

By the way, this is the demo:

demo cirrondly