Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 day ago
He left Meta to build a $30K/month golf app. Here’s his entire tech stack:
Next.js on the frontend
Google Firebase as the backend
That’s it. No exotic infra, no 10-person team. Just a senior engineer scratching his own itch at a local golf course, shipping nights and weekends until 150 courses were paying him.
Now at $350K ARR and pacing to $800K, he finally quit Meta to go all in.
The lesson: the stack isn’t the moat. Building something you’d do for free is.
He left Meta to build a $30K/month golf app. Here’s his entire tech stack:
Next.js on the frontend
Google Firebase as the backend
That’s it. No exotic infra, no 10-person team. Just a senior engineer scratching his own itch at a local golf course, shipping nights and weekends until 150 courses were paying him.
Now at $350K ARR and pacing to $800K, he finally quit Meta to go all in.
The lesson: the stack isn’t the moat. Building something you’d do for free is.
