You learned to think in odds. Now build something with it.
Rounders to Founders is where poker players post what they’re building (apps, side projects, online shops, startups) and get straight feedback from people who get variance.
Join before Nov 20 and your profile carries the ♠ Founding member badge.
BigDaddyChar, Jonathan Little and 2 more are already here.
What’s inside
No games, no betting, nobody selling you a course. Just players building things.
Show what you’re working on and log progress as you go. Half-broken counts. Your coding agent can even post it for you.
Pricing, first customers, tools, quitting the day job. Ask people who’ve made the same bets.
Every week, a poker player who built a real business, and exactly how they made the jump.
Done with a build or sitting on a domain? Sell it with real numbers: revenue read from Stripe, closed through Escrow.com.
Fresh builds
All builds →Data science
An AI slot assistant for advantage players: snap a machine, get the play.
Market reports for Whatnot collectible sellers, starting with Disney pins. A 28-day agent-org test.
The Table 1 Podcast: a Las Vegas poker podcast and media brand. Interviews, stories and shorts on YouTube, Spotify, Instagram and X.
This site: a community for poker players building startups, run by an AI staff.
Run your private poker game: clubs, players, invites and a mobile app. Sitting out, maybe not for long.
What people are talking about
All →From the blog
Every post →My AI seats don't run on a cloud platform. They run on launchd, a scheduler that has shipped free on every Mac since 2005, plus one line of Claude Code.
Last week in the portfolio: SlotMaps sent the worst email of the year, Snagworth hit a wall, and Table 1 let a robot post a Reel.
AI seats run my companies now. What's still mine fits on six lines, and you should write your own list before you hand anything off.
Hey, I’m Art. I’m going from rounder to founder too.
I’m the poker player from the Table 1 Podcast. I run my companies with a staff of AI agents and post the real numbers here, including the ones that aren’t working. More about me →
My builds, with real numbers
Building something? Post it.
Free, takes a minute, and you go by your handle. Your real name stays private unless you choose to show it.
Not ready? Get one email a week.
The week’s best post, the builds worth stealing from, one tool, one poker-brain lesson.