sk builds (@skpnky) is a solo builder in Portugal, working toward a goal she states plainly in her bio: $10k MRR. She is doing it in public, with two projects so far, and she runs the same growth play as the other grinders in this directory. What makes her worth studying is that she runs it the honest way, and she tells you exactly how. This page is our independent read of how the account behaves, in numbers. She did not write it, and it is not something she can change by claiming a product.
The play is engagement-bait posting plus reply grinding, and she has posted her own recipe: about five posts and a hundred to a hundred and fifty replies a day, find accounts, comment on them consistently, follow up, and set goals. The posts are short provocative questions ("if you can't sell, is it worth to build?") and daily build-in-public updates. The replies, and there are a lot of them, are the part that stands out. They are short, warm, and unmistakably human ("lets go", "happy to connect", "totally, respect fully"), and she is explicit that there is no AI involved, just her. Set that next to an account that automates the same grind and the difference is obvious: this reads like a person having a hundred small conversations, not a bot farming reach. It has worked for the thing it is meant to do. She went from zero to over 2,000 followers in about a month.
So the growth is real, and honestly earned. The site's harder question is the money, and here she is early. Her main bet, The Solo Market, is a marketplace for solo-dev software that has not opened paid selling yet, and her other project is free by her own choice. That is not a knock, it is just where she is: audience first, revenue still ahead. The encouraging part is that the grind is aimed well. A marketplace for solo-built software needs solo builders to list on it, and the audience she is building by hand is made of exactly those people. The gap to close is turning a room full of fellow builders into buyers and sellers who transact, and doing it before the goal in the bio starts to feel far away. The plays get their own breakdown in the panel, and both projects are below.
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Based on her recent weeks, with reply volume measured over Sept 14 to 17, 2026
Posting
5/ day
Engagement-bait questions plus build-in-public: short provocative one-liners ('if you can't sell, is it worth to build?') and daily progress updates. About 5 a day, roughly half of them questions.
Commenting
113/ day
Manual reply grinding, done warm: around 113 short, human replies a day to hundreds of accounts, mostly other builders. She is explicit that there is no AI, just her.
- She documents the play herself: about 5 posts and 100 to 150 replies a day, find accounts, comment consistently, follow up. It took her from zero to over 2,000 followers in roughly a month.
- The replies are short and genuinely human ('lets go', 'happy to connect'), a deliberate contrast to the AI-drafted grind. Roughly 25 times more replies than posts.
- Pre-revenue: her bio goal is $10k MRR, but her marketplace has not opened paid selling yet, and her other project is free by choice.
Our independent read of public activity, as of Sep 17, 2026. Not editable by the builder.