From Zero to $10,000 MRR in 108 Days: My Solo Founder Experiment
Jan 7, 2026
Is it possible to build a profitable app from scratch, alone, in just 108 days?
Today, I’m starting an experiment to find out.
My name is Mikita. I’m 35 years old. My original profession is not even IT — I’m a vascular surgeon with a PhD in medicine. But for the last 10 years, I’ve been building digital products and mobile apps.
In the past, I almost always did this the “classic startup way”:
Big teams
Big budgets
Complex partnerships
Long meetings
Long timelines
Sometimes it worked. Sometimes it didn’t. But one thing was always true: progress was slow, expensive, and complicated.
So this year, I decided to do something radically different.
The Challenge
I’m launching a 108-day public challenge:
Build from $0 to $10,000 in Monthly Recurring Revenue as a solo founder.
No team.
No investors.
No excuses.
Just:
Focus
Systems
Daily execution
And full transparency.
I will document this journey every single day in public.
What exactly am I building?
I will grow two things in parallel:
Askesis — a mobile app for time-bound challenges and discipline building
My private consulting for founders and app creators
Askesis is built around a simple idea:
Real change happens not through vague goals, but through clear, time-boxed commitments.
For example:
30 days of daily meditation
90 days without alcohol
60 days of daily workouts
108 days of focused execution
This is not about motivation. This is about systems and structure.
But this challenge is about more than money
Yes, the goal is $10,000 MRR.
But the deeper goal is something else.
I want to find out:
Is it possible to align what you love, what you build, what you create, and what makes money — into one single flow?
In other words:
Build products
Create content
Share the journey
Help people
And make a living from it
All as one person.
No split identity. No “this is for money, this is for soul”. One coherent system.
The main questions of this experiment
Over the next 108 days, I want to honestly answer:
Does the challenge method actually work?
Can I really stay consistent every day?
Can a solo founder compete with teams?
And of course: can this reach $10K MRR?
I don’t know the answers yet.
And that’s the point.
What’s next
Every day I will:
Build
Ship
Measure
Learn
And publish results
Both the wins and the failures.
If you want to follow this journey:
You can follow it on YouTube and social media
Or just come back to this blog and read the updates
Final thought
This is Day 1.
Right now, the result is zero.
But every meaningful journey starts exactly here.
Let’s see what 108 days of focused execution can really do.