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⌨️ Building it was never the hard part.

NoBossly keeps the scope inside what you can actually build in evenings — your hands, no-code, or a budget — and weighs distribution as hard as the build, because that is what ends most software long before the day job does.

Free, forever. Pick this path and you're straight into your quest board. No card, no waiting on a report.

Sound familiar?

"Nothing" is usually wrong and always worth checking — a spreadsheet counts. Software with no distribution plan is a hobby with a deployment pipeline.

Which kind of software or app?

This path covers all of it — nobody is forced into a box.

Software for businessesConsumer app or siteMobile appBrowser extension or pluginAI toolMarketplaceSomething else

📐 The number this path turns on

At $5 a month you need 200 paying customers for a $1,000 month. At $30 you need 34. At $500 you need two. Who you sell to changes the whole shape of the work, so your fit test asks first.

Rules of thumb, not laws — but a plan with no number in it is not a plan you can tell you are winning.

🎮 Your ten rungs, named for this path

Every path climbs the same ten stages for the same XP, but a plumber's fifth rung is not a podcaster's. XP alone can never buy one — each gates on something that happened in the real world.

🔧 Tinkerer 📄 Specced 🚀 Shipped v1 🎧 Talking to Users 💳 First Paying User — first money 💰 Charging Properly 🔟 Ten Payers 📈 Real Revenue 🕊️ Full-Time on It — the job ends 👑 Depended On
How the whole thing works →

Start as a software or app.

One choice, and you're straight into the quest board and the ladder. Tonight, after work. You can switch paths any time from your dashboard.

Start as a software or app →

Building something else?