I built a tool that follows up on commitments solo founders make. Here's what I learned from the first users.

Four months ago I started building Alystron after experiencing a specific frustration: I kept making commitments to myself about my startup and breaking them with zero consequence because there was no one there to notice.

The insight was simple. Solo founders don't fail because they lack skills or ideas. They fail because there's no one in the room when they quietly decide "next week" for the fourth time in a row.

So I built something that remembers what you say you'll do — and follows up when you don't.

Here's what I've learned from the first users:

The feature they care about most isn't the AI chat. It's the follow-up. When Alystron messages them on the day they said they'd ship something and asks "did you do it?" — they described it as the first time software ever felt like it actually gave a damn.

The second thing I learned: founders don't want cheerleading. They want honest friction. The users who engage most are the ones who turned on what we call Brutal Mode — where the AI doesn't let excuses slide.

If you're a solo founder — what's the version of this problem you experience most? Is it the accountability piece, the memory piece, or something else entirely?

(Happy to share more of what I've learned if there's interest — building in public from here.)