I started working in startups in 2020 when I had already a solid experience working in IT in different outsourcing companies. In 2024 I burned out badly enough that I did not have the energy to work anymore. So I stopped, recharged for a few months, and waited until building things felt possible again.
When I came back, I did not want to build for someone else's roadmap. I tried a few ideas: mobile apps, web apps, cross-platform apps. Around the same time I kept seeing AI wrappers charging people every month for access to tools they would never own.
That bothered me. I started reading docs, building MVPs, and testing what I could make on my own. It worked, slowly. For more than a year, GhostBro became the project I kept returning to.
The mission changed while I was building it: owning is better than renting. Pay once, keep lifetime access, and generate a ghost.key file so your app can authenticate without relying on ghostbro.app.
Because I am the only person behind GhostBro, I decided to make the mission real instead of just writing it on a landing page. When GhostBro reaches 200,000 paid users, one paid user will receive ownership of the project: source code, domain, infrastructure, product materials, and a proper handover.
If the winner is not a developer, that is okay. During the transition week, I will be glad to discuss a partnership and continue working on GhostBro together if that is the right path. I care more about building useful apps than almost anything else, but I also have to be honest about the practical side of making that possible.
Some of the problems I ran into this year already turned into new MVPs. If this experiment works, I want to build the next project the same way: no endless renting, no pretending ownership is just a slogan.