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5 months ago, I started building @uselotusai.
I was told your first startup is the hardest.
That is true, but it still does not fully prepare you for it.
In 2022, I co-founded @crimsonxglobal. We scaled it to 200+ MAU and $100k+.
Then it crashed….
Not because we did not understand the pain.
We just moved too fast, burned too much, and did not respect how unforgiving the early stage can be.
That lesson stayed with me.
Lotus started the way a lot of ideas do:
first as something I wanted for myself.
It began as a bot to trade prediction markets on Telegram.
Then it became a terminal.
Then, after speaking with more builders and traders, it became clear that the real problem was bigger.
The missing piece was not another interface.
It was the infrastructure underneath prediction markets:
liquidity, execution, fragmentation, routing.
The more I spoke to people in the space, the more obvious it became that this was the layer worth obsessing over.
Over the last 5 months, I have been heads down building Lotus from the ground up.
I have:
- built the early layers for liquidity and execution across multiple markets
- spoken with builders, traders, and teams across the space
- validated the need for what we are building
- joined the @Colosseum hackathon
In a few weeks, Lotus will be available in private beta for a small group of users.
That means we finally get to test the infrastructure with real usage, not just theory.
This time around feels different.
I am still building hard.
Still learning.
Still fixing things as I go.
But I am also a lot more patient, a lot more disciplined, and a lot more obsessed than I was the first time.
If you are a builder, or if you are trying to build something real, I would love to know which part of this resonates most.
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