# SideRoad

> SideRoad (sideroad.co) is a build-in-public project by Kevin Glover (Glover Builds). A new online business is built with AI and launched every week, and the real revenue numbers are published for every build, flops included. The goal is $1,000,000 earned in public. Everything starts from $0 and only moves when real money lands. No projections, no vanity metrics.

## Who runs it

Kevin Glover (@gloverbuilds on X, YouTube, and LinkedIn). About 15 years in digital marketing, analytics, and agency work. He built several profitable businesses privately before deciding to build in the open.

## Key pages

- [Home](https://sideroad.co/): Live revenue tracker, the current week's build, and the full portfolio.
- [Revenue](https://sideroad.co/revenue.html): Every dollar earned, per build, updated weekly. Currently $0, published honestly.
- [Builds](https://sideroad.co/builds/): All builds shipped so far, one per week, with real numbers on each.
- [Journal](https://sideroad.co/journal/): Long-form, field-tested guides on shipping AI products solo, building in public, validation, and getting first users.
- [Stack](https://sideroad.co/stack.html): The exact tools used every week.
- [About](https://sideroad.co/about.html): Who Kevin is and why SideRoad exists.
- [Submit an Idea](https://sideroad.co/submit-idea.html): Open call. Anyone can pitch a small, shippable build idea.
- [Lab](https://sideroad.co/lab/): Playable experiments.

## Building with Claude (guide cluster)

The journal includes a dedicated series on building real companies with Claude: the full idea-to-revenue path, Claude Code for non-coders, the five business prompt patterns, Claude vs ChatGPT for founders, closing the demo-to-business gap, and the seven documented mistakes in Claude SaaS builds. Start at https://sideroad.co/journal/how-to-build-a-company-with-claude.html

## Products

- [ShipWolf](https://shipwolf.co): The solo-founder launch kit sold through this project. Five tools, 60+ tested Claude prompts, two starter codebases, and an operator playbook. $249 one time, every future update included, no subscription.

## Builds so far

ThrowSpot (disc golf course directory, 7,008 courses), MyNubs (pet care calculators and guides, 179 pages), BJJMath (jiu-jitsu calculators from real rulebooks), Onerate (done-for-you local business websites, $4,500), TextScrubr (free browser text cleaner), ShipWolf (the launch kit), MarkUpTo (HTML to PDF/PNG/JPG exporter), AI Gift Pro (AI gift idea generator, live), ADD Toolkit (small forgiving tools for people with ADD, in progress), and three side builds: RSD Decoder (rsddecoder.com, a DBT-based reality check for the RSD spiral), PitchLite (pitchlite.com, the 500-character podcast pitch playbook with a free pitch checker), and Medicare Decoder (medicaredecoder.com, nine questions to a plain-English Medicare answer).

## Facts

- Started: May 2026
- Model: one build per week, revenue published weekly
- Revenue to date: $33.81, the project's first revenue, earned by AI Gift Pro via affiliate commissions on July 13, 2026 (published live and honestly)
- Newsletter: one email per week with the build and its real numbers
- Current focus: distribution. The build system is proven; getting the twelve builds found is the work now. Plan: https://sideroad.co/journal/first-revenue-and-the-distribution-plan.html