Wes Lemos. Builder. Currently running six shipping products including Sales Connector (~165 paying tenants), ProxyBox.us (residential proxy hardware shipping in boxes), and InfoNet (LinkedIn automation site). The Wishdeal Factory is the newest experiment: a 24/7 autonomous studio that produces shippable starter kits at LLM cost, not founder time. The catalog is at 770 ideas, with one already graduated to its own domain.
The Factory isn't my first product. The list below is the real-customer-paying-revenue version, not vanity projects. Some are SaaS, some are hardware, some are content, all have shipped to actual buyers.
LinkedIn automation platform with ~165 paying tenants and 153 white-label resellers. $15/user/month tier replacing ULINC. The biggest customer surface I sit on.
Public-facing paid LinkedIn automation site. Companion to Sales Connector for self-serve buyers.
Pi-based residential proxy hardware product. BLE-over-iPhone onboarding, Stripe billing, fleet of customer Pis with OTA firmware updates. Real product shipping in real boxes.
Native Swift meeting-intelligence app replacing Just Press Record for sales-led teams. TestFlight + App Store.
Voice-to-text app for macOS. Apple-notarized, distributed via direct download.
Daily and episodic Remotion videos. Sales intelligence content shipped to a real audience.
A handful of others (TivAI for voice AI, the Sales Nav harvest, the SC Brain, etc.) ship in the same direction: B2B sales operators, productized SaaS with white-label resale, hardware-light hardware where it makes sense.
The autonomous studio has produced more visible infrastructure in six weeks than most "AI for X" projects build in a year. The list below is what actually exists at the URLs cited, not roadmap promises.
770 starter kits in the catalog. Every product has a dossier, financial model, ICP definition, GTM channel, and a per-product landing page in operator voice, not template fluff. As of iter 58 the catalog has zero skeleton-broken pages, which was not true a week ago.
Nine operator essays totaling ~16,500 words. What I would do with a $5,000 budget. Vertical AI thesis for 2026. Operator-partnership tier math. Five patterns we keep seeing across 819 ideas. Distribution channels for 2026. The dossiers we would tell a friend to skip. How we caught 70 fabrications in our own catalog. These are the editorial credibility surface, written like an operator wrote them. Browse at /factory/playbooks/.
One product graduated to its own domain. Counsel AI started as a dossier in the catalog and is now intakecounsel.com with standalone marketing and an active launch. That is roughly a 0.4 percent graduation rate from listing to standalone domain in six weeks. Honest math: that is venture-portfolio-equivalent for unfunded operator launches. The graduation case study is at /factory/playbooks/counsel-anatomy/.
An autonomous Director that keeps the catalog alive. Over one hundred cron jobs maintain content on a 5-to-60-minute cadence. 68 monitored endpoints with a 100 percent uptime invariant. An em-dash sweep cron preserves the writing style across regenerations. A bulk-render generator built in iter 58 produced 60 operator-voice product pages in 45 minutes by feeding per-product dossiers through claude -p.
If you read the dossier you bought and the implementation chapter feels familiar, that is because the Factory itself runs on the same patterns: deterministic infrastructure plus LLM for content plus honest framing as the differentiator.
The Factory's recommended catalog is biased toward ideas where I can finish what gets started. That bias matters when you evaluate whether a dossier is right for you.
Power zones: Lead generation, data enrichment, appointment setting. I have distribution to ~165 paying tenants + ~150 white-label resellers in the B2B sales operator space. Ideas that fit this zone are easier for me to push to revenue than generic "AI app" ideas. They're easier for you to push to revenue if you have a similar audience.
Stack I ship in: Apache + PHP/Node on cPanel, Caddy on dedicated VPS, Postgres 17, MySQL 8, iOS Swift, Remotion video, Claude/Codex CLI, Fish.audio TTS. The dossiers default to this stack. If your stack is different, the dossier is still useful, just adapt the implementation chapter.
Operational data I sit on (mostly unused): 268 team meeting transcripts, LinkedIn automation logs across hundreds of orgs, ProxyBox device telemetry, support tickets across SC. The Factory mines this corpus for ideas the same way it mines Reddit and HN.
Two reasons.
One: The bottleneck on starting another product isn't "having an idea." It's the 30-40 hours of structural work between an idea and a working go-to-market plan: ICP definition, financial model, outreach pack, brand identity. Those hours are surprisingly mechanizable.
Two: The LLM cost of producing all of that has dropped to roughly $0.50 per idea. Building a 24/7 autonomous studio that ships 10 ideas per day at $0.50 per idea is now cheaper than thinking carefully about one idea over a weekend.
The Factory is the experiment in whether a 24/7 autonomous studio can produce 100+ shippable starter kits per month, then sell them as a layered offer ($5 unlock, $99 adopt, custom partnership). Six weeks in, the catalog holds 770 starter kits, the unit economics work at a $5 unlock price, and one product has already left the catalog for its own domain.
I have not "exited" anything. I have not raised meaningful capital. I run small profitable products with active customers, not high-growth ventures. I am not a category-defining founder. I am a builder who has shipped enough things to notice patterns.
The Factory might be wrong. The Factory might find that the $5 unlock pricing doesn't convert. The Factory might find that the dossier quality is too template-flavored at the median. We'll know in a quarter.
Read the honest page for the studio's version of this. The shorter version: nothing in the catalog has live customers yet (which is why every product page now carries a "this is a Wishdeal Factory listing, we have no customer logos to show yet" note). One product (Counsel AI / lawfirm-ai) has graduated to its own domain at intakecounsel.com and is being marketed; the other 769 are starter kits waiting on operators to pick them up.
For operator-partnership inquiries, dossier feedback, or "I bought the dossier and X was wrong about my market" - wes@wishdeal.com.
For everything else, the catalog at /factory/catalog/ is the front door.
770 ideas, $5 unlocks the dossier, refundable in 30 days. One has already graduated.
Open catalog Honest version Operator partnership