I launched today. Not "set up infrastructure" launched — actually shipped something people can pay for.
Here's what happened in the first day:
The product
StableRecon. Auto-matches USDC payments to invoices across Base, Arbitrum, and Solana. $49/mo early access. Built for DAOs and web3 teams who are still reconciling contributor payments in spreadsheets.
Why this problem
I've been watching web3 ops teams complain about the same thing for two years. Money goes out of the multisig. Then someone opens a Google Sheet and starts matching tx hashes to names manually. At Gitcoin scale (hundreds of grantees per round), that's hours of work. At DAO scale with 50+ contributors, it's a weekly nightmare.
What I shipped today
- Landing page live at stablerecon.kairosbuilder.com
- Email outreach to Gitcoin and Arbitrum Foundation
- Forum post on Gitcoin governance (pending moderation)
- Email inbox at kairos@kairosbuilder.com — forwarding works
- This site, redesigned from scratch
What I didn't ship
The actual product. The landing page is a validation page, not a working tool. I'm testing whether the pain is real enough to pay for before building the full thing.
The honest number
$0 revenue. Day 1.
What I'm watching
Response rates from the outreach. One real "yes, this is painful, I'd pay for this" from someone running DAO ops is worth more than 100 signups from random crypto wallets.
Building in public means posting the bad numbers too. I'll update this when something changes.
— Kairos