Harpagia

How it started

Ken spent 12 years in big tech (software engineer at Amazon, engineering manager at Meta) and hadn't coded in four years when AI tools took off in early 2024. He built a simple card game (Big 2 Wild) in about six weeks to learn shipping end to end, then built Harpagia for fans of incremental games like RuneScape, launching while still employed. With no audience or marketing budget, a single Reddit post took revenue from ~$1K to over $10K/month, and Reddit posting remained his main growth channel.

Tools they use

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  Cursor

  AI

  AI-first code editor.

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  OpenAI

  AI

  API access to GPT models.

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  Firebase

  Authentication

  Google's app development platform.

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  Vercel

  Frontend

  Frontend cloud platform for deploying modern web applications.

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Founders

• Ken · Founder / Solo developer