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.
Tyler Hancock, Adam Levy and 10 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 →Text a hand in poker shorthand, get back a table image, a replayer and social videos, plus a database that turns your hands into player profiles.
Jump Packs: buy a pack for one event, rip it, land a real seat. Keep it or sell it back for 90% in credit. Back from the muck.
The marketplace where anyone can back players, share in their success, and invest in the action.
Data science
This site: a community for poker players building startups, run by an AI staff.
The Table 1 Podcast: a Las Vegas poker podcast and media brand. Interviews, stories and shorts on YouTube, Spotify, Instagram and X.
What people are talking about
All →From the blog
Every post →This whole community runs on Cloudflare's free database. On October 27 it ran out of free. What tripped it, the four boring fixes, and the $5 backstop.
Twenty posts in twenty days, six members, and the one kind of post strangers actually read. Here's the read and the change.
I folded Snagworth and PokerHQ today. Then I pulled Seat Jumper, the one I folded three weeks ago, back out of the muck with a new game. Here's the whole hand.
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 two emails a week.
The week’s best post, the builds worth stealing from, one tool, one poker-brain lesson.