Building was the easy part. Distribution is the 10x problem.

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I shipped a AI creation saas platform solo — image, video, music and 3D generation, 30+ models behind a routing layer, subscription billing with two payment adapters, an admin backend, a Chrome extension. Every directory listing, every piece of content, every community post is manual, linear work. My honest estimate now: for every hour spent building, you need something like ten hours on distribution — and unlike code, none of it is reusable infrastructure.

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