u/Peroni-blackhawk

For the last 30 days I’ve been posting a video every single day documenting what it’s like building Basement from scratch. The series is called “building a business before AI takes my job” and it’s been living on YouTube Shorts, TikTok, Instagram, X, and LinkedIn.

Today I’m bringing it to Reddit.

Day 30 is about our biggest release yet. Full gamification system. Leveling, badges, four rarity tiers, reputation you earn not buy. The whole thing ships across iOS and the Chrome extension.
The catch: we need a launch video and none of us have ever made one. So we’re figuring it out in public.

If you’ve ever seen a launch video that actually made you download an app, drop it in the comments.

We’re studying every good one we can find.

Also genuinely curious: if you could automate anything right in your browser, what would it be? Stock analysis, finding the best price, lead generation, news alerts? Something else?

Day 30. Let’s go.

u/Peroni-blackhawk — 24 days ago

u/Peroni-blackhawk

Day 45: 5 businesses signed up for something I built in a week

Day 44: I think I just built the best Shopify app with Grok Build

Day 43: This AI tool does images, video, and audio from one chat

Day 42: I turned our launch video into a TikTok with 3 prompts

Day 41: How we made a launch video with zero video experience

Day 40: My AI just booked my first VC meeting

Day 39: I got 2 users for $12 each while billion dollar companies fight over the big keywords

Day 38: How I'm emailing 1,000 VCs a day to get funded

Day 37: The one trick that fixed our entire landing page

Day 36: Top 6 out of 100 teams. Didn’t win.

Day 35: I have 50 AI agents building my app right now

Day 34: We launched at Consensus and entered a $30K hackathon