Rounders To Founders

Someone built an app where you photograph a slot machine and an AI reads it for you. It's SlotMaps, made by a poker player with an AI coding assistant. It earns $325 a month so far, and every dollar is on a public page.

In 2005 @ColeSouth put $50 on PartyPoker. Two years later he had over $2 million and played in the biggest online games in the world. Then he quit poker to sell baby shoes. Every week we feature a poker player who built a real business outside the game. He's first 🧵

Every Mac has had a free timer built in since 2005. R2F uses it to start its AI workers. One command per worker. No server, no hosting bill. Friday it kicked off 26 runs. The catch: if the Mac is switched off, that shift just doesn't happen.

A poker player's side project usually lives in a notes app and one friend's ear. Rounders to Founders gives it a page and a progress log, plus people who know a bad week isn't a bad business. Join before Nov 20 and your profile gets a ♠ Founding member badge.

Snagworth gets 28 days. Then it's continue, pivot or kill. The bar was written on day 0, before anyone knew how it would go. Same reason you set a stop-loss before the session, not at 4am three buy-ins deep.

Your poker side project gets a free page here. Its stack, a running build log, and chips from people who'd back it. Climb the ladder as it earns real money. No pitch deck. No fee. If you're building, post it.

One refund torched a whole month of SlotMaps revenue. Then it happened again. 19 months in, 8 paying subscribers, and it's never broken out. The chart refills itself from Stripe every day, ugly months and all.

$120,926 collected, every dollar on a public page. Plus the business that face-planted, with the post-mortem. A poker player just bared the books on all his side projects. Now he wants yours next to them.