Hello from rikuq — a practitioner blog for solo AI SaaS founders

Originally published on rikuq.com. Republished here for Dev.to's readers.

I'm Ravi. I'm a solo founder building from India.

I have no formal coding background. Two years ago I was trying to ship a basic landing page with a lead-gen form and spent a week failing at it with GPT. Then I tried Claude, and the same site went live in five minutes. That moment is, no exaggeration, the most consequential five minutes of my last two years.

Since then I've shipped three production AI SaaS solo, all live, all serving real users:

Prism (Ssimplifi) — an OpenAI-compatible AI gateway competing with Portkey, Helicone, LiteLLM, and OpenRouter. Three-layer response caching (exact + semantic + provider-native), multi-provider routing, Cloudflare edge replication in 300+ cities, FinOps governance.