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Solo Maker's Guide
One Person. Full Team.

Your AI-powered designer, design system engineer, and QA tester — all in one. Ship professional products without a team.

Who This Guide Is For

Indie Hacker building side projects
🛠️Full-Stack Dev doing everything alone
🎨Creator / Maker shipping solo
💡Freelancer delivering work independently

💪 UX Master Replaces 3 Roles

Role Traditional UX Master
UI/UX Designer $5K-$15K $0
Design System Engineer $3K-$8K $0
Visual QA Tester $2K-$5K $0

Save $10K-$28K per project.


⚡ End-to-End in 1 Day

# Hour 1: Extract design system
python scripts/wizard.py --url https://cal.com --name "MyApp"

# Hour 2: Generate components
python scripts/component_generator.py --input output/MyApp/design-system.json --all

# Hour 3-6: Build with generated components
# Hour 7: Quality check
python scripts/wizard.py --url http://localhost:3000 --name "QA"

# Hour 8: Ship! 🚀

🎨 Design Without Being a Designer

The "Steal Like an Artist" Method

# Pick 3 products you admire
python scripts/wizard.py --url https://linear.app --name "Ref1"
python scripts/wizard.py --url https://vercel.com --name "Ref2"
python scripts/wizard.py --url https://resend.com --name "Ref3"

# Compare, pick best elements, customize your brand color

UX Master handles font pairing, color palette, spacing, borders, shadows, and responsive breakpoints. You focus on what your product does.


📈 Side Project → Product

Weekend MVP

Extract → Generate → Build core features → Deploy

First Users

Get feedback → Re-audit → Fix inconsistencies

Monetize

Polish with premium reference → Professional = trust

Scale

Generate DESIGN.md for future contributors


🏆 Results

"Ship a new project every month. Each looks like a funded startup." — Indie hacker
"Clients can't believe I'm one person. The design quality says otherwise." — Freelancer
"My side project looks better than my day job's product." — Engineer

Ready to be a one-person design team?

Extract, generate, build, ship. Professional products, zero team required.