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⚡️ Polsia: Solo Founder Tiny Team from 0 to 1m ARR in 1 month & the future of Self-Running Companies

Mar 1, 2026 · 41:56

Polsia, an AI that autonomously builds and runs companies, crossed $1M ARR in its first month, solo founder Ben Cera explains on Latent Space. The platform lets users give an idea and it handles product coding, marketing, cold outreach, Meta ads, and competitive research, sending daily emails summarizing progress. Cera built Polsia for himself starting in November, stripping features to keep onboarding simple—provisioning everything so users only need to reply to an email. He uses AI agents to run Polsia itself, from fixing bugs to responding to investor inbound, embodying the vision of a self-running company. The business model charges $50/month (near break-even on model costs) and takes 20% of any revenue the user's company generates. Cera emphasizes that the hardest part was deciding what not to build, and he sees Polsia as an Apple-like ecosystem for autonomous business operations.

This World Does Not Exist — Joscha Bach, Karan Malhotra, Rob Haisfield (WorldSim, WebSim, Liquid AI)

Apr 27, 2024 · 1:56:11

The episode features Karan Malhotra demoing WorldSim, a prompt that turns Claude 3 into a universe simulator via CLI; Rob Haisfield presenting WebSim, which generates functional websites on the fly; and Joscha Bach arguing simulative AI reveals consciousness as a virtual property, with LLMs creating agents as real as human minds, urging the California Institute for Machine Consciousness to build self-organizing silicon life. Malhotra shows WorldSim running “world.exe” to create Twitter inside a simulated universe, with users tweeting and Elon Musk moving Dogecoin. Haisfield demonstrates WebSim generating a 5D particle interface, a news RSS aggregator, and a face-swap webcam app via URL parameters like “secrets=revealed”. Bach explains consciousness as second-order perception in a simulated now, criticizes RLHF for lobotomizing models, and advocates for animist AI where software agents compete like spirits, not golems.