Why I Build Tools for People Who Left Corporate
Why I Left Corporate to Build Tools for People Who Left Corporate
- Startup builds simple, useful tool
- Startup raises VC money
- Tool gets bloated with "enterprise features"
- Pricing goes 10x
- Original users leave
- Repeat
By the time tools are "mature," they're unusable for the people who made them popular.
The Solo Creator Gets Left Behind
You know the feeling. You found a great tool when it was young. It worked perfectly for your one-person operation.
Then the "enterprise sales team" arrived:
- Features you don't need
- Pricing tiers designed to push you up
- Support that assumes you have an IT department
- Interfaces cluttered with options for companies 100x your size
Building for the Permanently Small
Some of us don't want to scale to 500 employees. Some of us chose to stay lean on purpose.
We're not a stepping stone. We're the destination.
ConsultPitch is built for people who:
- Left corporate intentionally
- Want to stay solo or small
- Value simplicity over features
- Prefer tools that respect their time
The Anti-VC Approach
We're not racing to add features to justify a valuation. We're not building for an exit.
We're building sustainable tools for sustainable businesses.
That means:
- No feature bloat to satisfy enterprise buyers
- No predatory pricing to maximize LTV
- No bait-and-switch free tiers
- No "contact sales" for basic information
What We're Building
ConsultPitch: Pitch pages for people who hate making pitch decks
Appointments: Scheduling without the Calendly creep
BKB.sx: Link shortening that doesn't look like spam
Filestash: File sharing without enterprise baggage
One toolkit. One subscription. Built for the permanently small.
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