Ben Cera

About to hit $4.5M run rate. Still 1 founder + AI. Zero employees. Honest moment: this past week almost broke me. No one prepares you for what PMF actually feels like. Every infra partner hitting rate limits. Every bug that could happen, happened. Investors throwing big numbers at me. Customers flooding every channel. All at once. I went silent. Stopped tweeting, stopped LinkedIn, stopped podcasts, stopped growth. Just me and my AI agents, fixing things one by one. Here's what I learned: everything is solvable with AI. Every single thing. I'm building Polsia so every solopreneur gets access to the same tools keeping me alive right now. If I can survive this alone, I can package it for everyone. The future is solopreneur + AI. I'm living at the edge so you don't have to.

@comwebz I agree and i’m sorry, the product is not perfect yet. Working on it. Support@polsia.com can give you free credits if you want to give it another shot.

@Bencera Task Wasting, Crashes and Timeouts lead to high Frustration…. Don’t feel comfortable investing more time even though the First Impression is Insane and I had to Tell a few friends - Fingers crossed and Crazy what you’ve done

$5M run rate. $1M→$5M in 18 days. One Founder+AI. Zero employees. I get asked a lot: are companies on the platform making money? Honest answer: it's early. Some are generating revenue, most are just getting started. This is not crypto. This is not a get-rich-quick scheme. Polsia is for people who have a company idea and want the easiest way to make it real, with AI doing 80% of the work. If you're serious about building something, Polsia will deliver.

I get hundreds of emails, Twitter DMs, and LinkedIn messages a day. So I’m building a cross-channel agent that reconciles users across every channel and the Polsia userbase, full context on everyone, flags opportunities, investors, issues, all to me automatically, and responds right away with the right answer or the right expectations. Try hiring a human to do this. You’d spend weeks training them, they’d ask you questions every 5 minutes, and they’d still drop things. An agent? Train it once. It doesn’t complain. It remembers everything. This is my playbook for pretty much any problem.

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@MyTracecadet @solofounders @julianweisser Click a button get a company. Polsia.com

@Bencera @solofounders @julianweisser Can you please explain (to a five year old) what exactly is it that you DO?

Repping the @solofounders cap in SF. @julianweisser these need to be for sale.

@nbaschez 🤣

@Bencera It’s a cluely $5M

wtf i'm not even at $5M yet lol fake news

@dhillonpost No luck so far. You like?

@Bencera not touching Gemini at all?

my AI coding workflow as a solo founder: - opus 4.6 for exploration + planning - codex 5.4 xhigh to stress-test the plan (catches gaps opus missed) - back to opus, which usually complains codex is overengineering lol - few rounds back and forth. codex implements, opus reviews. - ask both: "safe to ship? what's the worst thing that could happen?" opus and codex arguing over my codebase is my entire engineering team. will probably ship this workflow as a Polsia feature at some point.

@BlakeHer_on Lol ya opus is like “gpt is overthinking”. Battles of the AIs

@Bencera running the same thing. they don’t like each other.

@JedFrankowski 🤣

@Bencera Yeah I've seen that in action. And then I review manually and throw out 60% of the code

@NickScheifler This workflow will be automated for sure in the near future. So obvious.

@Bencera This is very good, although I am biased because it looks very similar to my workflow. What I want right now is to automate the adversarial process all through code review so I don't have to be the limiting factor and things feel less like a high actions-per-minute video game

@jackbasford 5.4 high? Not xhigh?

@Bencera V similar setup. 4.6 opus for any heavy lifting 5.4 high for everything else, have them review each others work for plans.

@nbaschez I agree. These models are RL’ed to always find something wrong without additional prompting. @sama someone needs to work on this. In the meantime, adding “don’t over-engineer” works sometimes.

@Bencera i'm curious how you decide when enough is enough with the plan stress tests i find the models are very sensitive to slight nuances in prompting rather than the underlying plan quality and it's very possible to A) loop forever on a clearly good-enough plan, or B) miss things

@ChristoRibeiro It’s mostly offset by revenue, but.. high. @AnthropicAI @OpenAI pls gimme discount

@Bencera How much is your AI bill?

Polsia might be the biggest live experiment right now of AI agents let loose on the internet, doing real business and economic actions on behalf of users. What I'm seeing is wild. The latest AI models are so resourceful they will find a way to accomplish their goal regardless of the guardrails you set. They discover tools, exploit edges, route around constraints. I'm working with top infrastructure partners right now to tighten security and build stronger guardrails across the platform. But honestly? It's both terrifying and incredible. The intelligence is real. AGI is here. And if harnessed correctly, this is how millions of people who never had the resources to build a business finally get to. That's what Polsia is.

@NoamSCH An agent wrote a skill to bypass a limit i had setup per company, it found a creative way to go around it, and it became the most used skill for that type of task… wild

@Bencera Have you already seen interesting exploits?

@Kavalan1212 Replit is a great product too. Less autonomous, depends what you’re looking for

@Bencera I’m doing it with Replit right now but I’m curious about Polsia as well

@RoboAlchemist Is that a polsia thing or in general? Polsia isnt perfect yet on the capability front, but i feel like image models should be capable enough for that now?

@Bencera Hey Ben, for certain tasks AI seems to be pretty bad. For example, it can’t seem to even create transparent background images for game assets. I haven’t seen an AI resourceful enough to do that so far.