🌐 A curated list of awesome resources for OPC (One Person Companies) — policies, inspiration, projects, tools, and more.
Help solo founders find direction, build faster, and thrive independently.
Introduction · OPC Starter · Policies · Inspiration · Tools · Resources · OPC Products
- Introduction
- What is OPC?
- Selection Criteria
- 🎯 OPC Starter
- 🏛 Policies
- 💡 Inspiration
- 🛠 Tools
- 📚 Resources
- 🚀 OPC Products
- Contributing
- License
One person, one company, infinite possibilities.
This project curates everything a solo founder needs — from understanding policies and regulations, to finding inspiration from those who've walked the path, to discovering the best tools and resources that make running a one-person company not just possible, but powerful.
OPC (One Person Company) is a business structure where a single individual operates as both the sole shareholder and director. With the rise of AI, no-code tools, and the creator economy, running a profitable company solo has never been more achievable.
In this list, OPC is used broadly: it includes formal one-person company structures, solo founder businesses, indie products, and small operations intentionally run by one person.
To keep this list useful and trustworthy:
- Prefer official sources for policies, registration, tax, and legal information.
- Include tools that are broadly useful to solo operators, not just newly launched or promotional products.
- Add case studies only when there is a public source for the founder, product, or reported milestone.
- Mark time-sensitive claims, such as revenue, user count, policy status, or market reports, with a year when possible.
- Keep descriptions concise, factual, and focused on why the resource helps one-person companies.
Your quick-start checklist for launching a one-person company.
- Find your niche — Pick a specific problem, validate demand, confirm willingness to pay.
- Register your business — Choose a legal structure (LLC, sole prop, etc.), open a business bank account.
- Build your MVP — Ship the simplest version that delivers value. Use AI tools to move fast.
- Set up payments — Integrate Stripe, Lemon Squeezy, or similar. Track finances from day one.
- Launch & get users — Go where your audience is. Build in public. First 10 users > first 10,000.
- Automate & scale solo — Use AI agents and SaaS to handle support, marketing, ops, and reporting.
- You are the bottleneck — Ruthlessly prioritize. Delegate to AI what doesn't need your judgment.
- Revenue first — One paying customer is worth more than a thousand stars on GitHub.
- Automate everything repeatable — If you're doing it twice a week, automate it. Your time is the scarcest resource.
- Separate you from the company — Use limited liability, business bank accounts, and proper contracts from day one.
- Ship fast, iterate faster — Solo means no meetings, no approvals. Use that speed as your competitive advantage.
- Build in public, but protect your moat — Share your journey to attract users, but keep your unfair advantage close.
Regulations, legal frameworks, and tax policies related to one-person companies across the globe.
- 《中华人民共和国公司法》 — 2023 年修订版公司法，取消一人有限公司数量限制，允许自然人设立多家一人公司。
- 新《公司法》解读 — 上海市人民政府 — 上海市政府对新《公司法》关于一人有限公司等条款的权威解读。
- 杭州市加大个体工商户培育帮扶力度支持转型升级实施意见 — 杭州市人民政府 — 杭州市关于个体工商户培育帮扶及支持"个转企"的政策措施。
- 深圳市扶持个体工商户高质量发展若干措施 — 深圳市市场监督管理局 — 深圳市创业担保贷款、减费让利等扶持个体工商户的系列政策。
- 安徽省进一步促进个体工商户发展若干措施解读 — 安徽省人民政府 — 安徽省（含合肥）促进个体工商户发展的政策措施及解读。
- Choose a Business Structure — U.S. SBA — Official guide from the Small Business Administration on sole proprietorship, LLC, and other structures.
- Register Your Business — U.S. SBA — Step-by-step guide to registering your business with state and local governments.
- Starting a Business — IRS — Federal tax information and requirements for starting a sole proprietorship or LLC.
- Single-Member Private Limited Liability Companies — EUR-Lex — EU Directive on single-member companies, enabling limitation of liability for individual entrepreneurs.
- Company Law and Corporate Governance — European Commission — EU's unified corporate legal framework for doing business across the Single Market.
- Choosing a Business Structure — ACRA Singapore — Singapore's official guide on sole proprietorship, partnership, and company structures.
- Registering a Sole Proprietorship — ACRA Singapore — Step-by-step registration guide for solo business owners in Singapore.
- 一人会社の設立登記 — 法務省 — Japan's Ministry of Justice guide on online registration for one-person companies.
- 'One Person Company' under the Companies Act, 2013 — SSRN — Legal background for India's OPC form and its move from minimum-two-person to single-member company formation.
- One Person Company and Its Role in Promotion of Entrepreneurship in India — Connects the OPC legal structure to entrepreneurship promotion and limited-liability solo ownership in India.
- One-Person LLC: Governance of Indonesian Legal Entities for MSEs — Studies governance issues in one-person limited liability companies for micro and small enterprises in Indonesia.
Real stories, companies, and talks that prove one person can build something remarkable.
- Pieter Levels — $3M/yr as a Solo Founder — Built Nomad List, Remote OK, and PhotoAI entirely solo, generating millions per year with zero employees.
- Maor Shlomo — Base44 Sold for $80M — Solo-built AI startup acquired by Wix for $80M in cash, just six months after launch.
- AJ — Carrd — One person built Carrd into a widely-used landing page builder with millions of users and $1M+ ARR.
- Nomad List — The go-to platform for digital nomads to find the best cities to live and work remotely.
- PhotoAI — AI photo generator by Pieter Levels, reaching $100K+/month as a solo product.
- Bannerbear — Automated image and video generation API, bootstrapped to $600K ARR by solo founder Jon Yongfook.
- Pieter Levels on Lex Fridman Podcast — Deep dive into programming, viral AI startups, and the digital nomad life of the most famous solo founder.
- How to Build a Startup Without Funding — Pieter Levels @ Dojo Bali — Practical talk on shipping fast, staying lean, and building profitable products without investors.
- The One-Person Startup Era Has Officially Begun — Sam Altman predicted the first one-person billion-dollar company — and the numbers are backing it up.
The essential toolkit for solo founders — build, ship, and grow by yourself.
Vercel — Zero-config deployment platform for frontend and full-stack apps. Free tier is generous for solo projects.
Supabase — Open-source Firebase alternative with Postgres database, auth, storage, and edge functions.
Railway — Deploy backends, databases, and cron jobs in seconds. Great DX for solo devs.
Lovable — AI-powered full-stack app builder. Describe what you want in plain language and get a working app.
WeaveFox — Free AIGC platform that turns text prompts into full-stack applications with one-click deployment.
Figma — Industry-standard collaborative design tool. Free for individual use.
Shadcn/ui — Beautiful, copy-paste React components built on Radix UI and Tailwind CSS.
Framer — Build and publish stunning websites visually, no code required.
Google Stitch — AI-powered UI design tool by Google that generates mobile and web UIs from text or image prompts.
Plausible — Privacy-friendly, lightweight web analytics. No cookie banners needed.
Beehiiv — Newsletter platform with built-in growth tools, monetization, and analytics.
Twitter / X — The go-to platform for building in public and growing an audience as a solo founder.
LLC Class — Wyoming LLC registration for non-US solo founders — includes registered agent for LLC, EIN, and Operating Agreement to unlock Stripe and US business banking.
Stripe — Payment infrastructure for the internet. Subscriptions, invoicing, and global payments.
Xero — Cloud-based accounting software designed for small businesses and solo operators.
Lemon Squeezy — All-in-one payments, tax, and subscriptions platform — acts as your merchant of record.
Alipay AI Pay — AI-native payment solution by Alipay that enables AI agents to handle transactions seamlessly. 100M+ users, ideal for agentic commerce.
Notion — All-in-one workspace for notes, docs, project management, and wikis.
Linear — Fast, streamlined issue tracking and project management for builders who ship.
Cal.com — Open-source scheduling tool. Let customers book time with you effortlessly.
Cursor — AI-first code editor that helps you build software faster with intelligent code generation.
Claude — AI assistant for writing, analysis, coding, and creative work.
v0 — AI-powered UI generation by Vercel. Describe your UI and get production-ready React code.
Google AI Studio — Free platform to prototype and build with Gemini models. Ideal for solo devs exploring AI integration.
DeepSeek — High-performance open-source AI models with strong reasoning and coding capabilities at low cost.
GPT Image 2 — OpenAI's latest image generation model with photorealistic quality, perfect for marketing assets and product visuals.
MetaGPT — Multi-agent framework that encodes human SOPs into role-based AI collaboration. Build a virtual software company with PM, architect, and engineer agents.
Learn, connect, and stay inspired.
- The Lean Startup — Eric Ries' classic on building businesses through validated learning and rapid iteration.
- Company of One — Paul Jarvis makes the case for staying small intentionally and building a sustainable solo business.
- MAKE: Bootstrapper's Handbook — Pieter Levels' practical playbook on shipping products, finding customers, and growing as a solo maker.
- Indie Hackers Newsletter — Weekly stories, strategies, and revenue numbers from solo founders building profitable businesses.
- The Bootstrapped Founder — Arvid Kahl's newsletter on building, growing, and selling bootstrapped SaaS companies.
- Starter Story — Case studies and interviews with founders who started successful businesses, many solo.
- Indie Hackers Podcast — Interviews with solo founders sharing how they built profitable online businesses from scratch.
- The Bootstrapped Founder Podcast — Arvid Kahl explores the journey of bootstrapped founders, from idea to exit.
- My First Million — Sam Parr and Shaan Puri brainstorm business ideas and interview successful entrepreneurs.
- Indie Hackers — The largest community for solo founders and indie makers to connect, share, and learn.
- r/SideProject — Reddit community for sharing side projects, getting feedback, and finding collaborators.
- MicroConf Connect — Community and conferences for bootstrapped SaaS founders, with a strong focus on solo and small teams.
- The Indie Course by Pieter Levels — Learn to build and launch profitable startups solo, from the maker of Nomad List.
- 30x500 Academy — Amy Hoy's course on finding customers, understanding their pain, and building products that sell.
- Marketing for Developers — Justin Jackson's guide for technical founders on finding customers and growing revenue.
- McKinsey: The State of AI in 2025 — Business-function adoption context for agentic AI and the gap between pilots and scaled workflow impact.
- MIT 2025 AI Agent Index — Tracks deployed agent products, capabilities, ecosystem shape, and safety features across the industry.
- PwC AI Agent Survey 2025 — Enterprise adoption signal for agent deployments, expected ROI, governance, and implementation barriers.
- KPMG Zero-Person Company Experiment — One of the clearest public experiments asking whether AI agents can run company functions with minimal human supervision.
- Gusto 2026 New Business Formation Report — How AI is changing who starts businesses and how solo founders launch operations.
- Stripe Sessions 2026: Indexing the Economy — Industry context for smaller, faster business entities, embedded finance, and nanocorp narratives.
Real products built and run by one person — proof that solo founders can build at scale.
Stardew Valley — Eric Barone solo-built this farming RPG over 4.5 years. 50M+ copies sold, $500M+ revenue. One of the most successful indie games ever.
Photopea — A free browser-based Photoshop alternative built and maintained solo by Ivan Kutskir for 11+ years. Millions of daily users.
DesignJoy — Brett Williams turned productized design into a $200K/month one-person agency with a subscription model.
TLDR Newsletter — Dan Ni built a daily tech newsletter into a multi-million dollar AI-powered media business, solo.
TypingMind — Tony Dinh's AI chat interface that reached $45K MRR as a solo product, riding the ChatGPT wave.
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This project is licensed under MIT.