Built Methods, a fully automated UGC platform: $3.6M ARR peak with a team of 3.
Highlights
- A double-entry ledger system processing $300k+ in payouts, invoicing and deposits
- AI review pipelines for posts, applications, task completion and payouts, enabling autonomous platform operation (~200k video/task reviews)
- Near turing-complete automation service and event system (n8n-like, 150k+ invocations)
- Agentic cursor-like control plane (chat interface enabling full platform ops + beautiful generative UI)
- Organization and user profiling as well as viral content exploration feeding into scalable memory systems
- Horizontally scalable queue and container infra
- Real-time systems at peak handling 20k+ simultaneously online users in one chat
Architected the platform to scale from 0 to 100k+ MAUs, 40M+ monthly API requests, 1B+ views on TikTok/IG and Terabytes of video data.