This Is Not a Startup—It’s Two People and a Killer Idea

Let’s start with this: the next wave of great companies probably won’t look like the ones that came before.

They won’t raise $20M before writing a line of code.

They won’t spend half their lives hiring.

And they definitely won’t need 40 people in a Slack channel just to ship a landing page.

They’ll look smaller. Quieter. Faster.

Sometimes, they’ll just be two people—and a really, really smart AI.

Small crew, big ambition

“Tiny teams” are just what they sound like: small, focused groups—usually 2 to 5 people—building things that, until recently, you’d need a full-stack startup to pull off. Think early Stripe, but with GPT-4 instead of YC. Or Basecamp, but with Claude proofreading their launch copy.

They’re not a trend. They’re not a lifestyle brand.

They’re the logical result of something that’s been building for years.

AI has become usable. Not just in theory—but in the gritty, daily stuff: writing docs, answering customers, coding whole features, brainstorming names, drafting tweets, optimizing onboarding flows. All the bits and pieces that slow teams down? These folks are handing them off to the bots.

Take Cursor, for example. A full-fledged AI coding assistant, built by just a handful of engineers—and it’s competing with the biggest players in dev tools. Or Lex, an AI writing tool that grew a loyal user base with a lean team and strong product chops.

It’s not that these teams are doing less. It’s that they’ve stopped doing everything else.

Why I’m starting this site

Because frankly, it’s hard to find a place where this world is being documented—not as tech hype or investor bait, but as a real, living shift in how people work.

I wanted a space that’s part blog, part conversation, part public journal. A place where we can talk about:

• How two people built a million-dollar SaaS with no meetings

• What tools tiny teams are actually using day-to-day (and which ones just slow them down)

• The emotional side of working small: the freedom, the pressure, the weird intimacy of building something ambitious with one or two other humans

• And yes—how to keep your sanity when it’s just you, your co-founder, and a blinking cursor at 2 a.m.

I’m not here to sell hustle.

I’m here because this feels like the beginning of something. And if you’re building like this—or thinking about it—you should know: you're not the only one.

What to expect here

Some weeks, I’ll write short riffs on ideas or tools I’m experimenting with. Other times, I’ll go deep—profiles of interesting tiny teams, breakdowns of their stack, maybe even interviews if they’ll talk to me.

But always, the throughline is this:
The rules have changed. And the people who realize that early get to play a different game.

If you’re tired of big-team bloat, VC decks, and LinkedIn bravado—pull up a chair.

Tiny teams are building big things. Let’s talk about how.