How I scaled Chimera to 6 figure ARR in one year without a dedicated development team

Sat, 16 May 2026 18:15:26 +0000

Note: This post was not written/edited/reviewed by any LLM/“AI”.

Introduction

After about a year of working part time on greenfield projects at Outlogic, like small product demos / low scope crypto MVPs, I was tasked with developing a coin swap platform from scratch. At this time I was fully recharged from my days at Widgetic and had moved into a stable cadence of product level thinking while programming, shipping consistently - a direct application of all I’d learned at previous roles.

Greenfield-Project on Inverted Tree

How I scaled Chimera to 6 figure ARR in one year without a dedicated development team

Introduction