Indie founder building his second $1M business launches AI-employee platform
marclou · x · 2026-09-21
Indie developer alexwestco launched his 5th product since rebuilding: a platform where you create "AI employees" and treat them like real remote workers.
The workflow: hire/create an AI employee, give it its own computer, help it set up by installing apps and logging into services, assign tasks and TODOs, then let it work. Under the hood they run Codex and Claude Code paired with computer use and tool use, so as long as they have instructions they can connect to any tool and do anything — coding, marketing, customer support, client communication, general assistance.
He says this is his second attempt at building a $1M business.
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