I built a SaaS in 8 weeks, solo, using our own AI platform

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I spent 8 weeks building Zine, an AI-powered search app for your team's knowledge, entirely solo. No team, no extra funding. Just me, AI coding tools, and the platform I had already built.Instead of building infrastructure (connectors, vector DBs, transcription, entity extraction, etc.), I reused Graphlit, the same stack our customers use. That saved about 4-5 months of backend work and let me focus 100 percent on product and UX.The result: I built and shipped an MVP in 8 weeks, got the first paying customer in 4 months, used 30+ data connectors with real-time sync and entity-aware semantic search, and 100 percent of coding was assisted by AI (Claude Code and Factory Droid).The post covers t

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Website: www.zine.ai/blog/how-i-built-zine-in-3-months-with-ai-coding