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Ryan Carson is building his new startup, Untangle, as a solo founder and is bootstrapping the company.
Untangle is priced at $300, positioning it as a low-cost alternative to traditional divorce lawyers who can cost between $15,000 and $40,000.
Ryan Carson's first startup was a file-sharing service called Dropsend, which he built himself and was acquired after two years.
Ryan Carson's second startup, Treehouse, was an online school that taught approximately one million people how to code.
The online coding school Treehouse raised venture capital funding and scaled its team to over 100 people.
Ryan Carson's open-source, three-part system for coding with AI is available on a GitHub repo that has approximately 4,000 stars.
The AI coding agent AMP is highly opinionated and uses Sonnet 4 as its primary model, without offering a model selector to the user.
The AI coding agent AMP includes an "Oracle" feature that makes a tool call to Opus 3 for more advanced reasoning tasks.
Untangle is a software application designed to help people navigate the divorce process, initially focusing exclusively on the state of Connecticut.
In Connecticut, the divorce process requires filling out 14 different forms with a total of 2,077 unique fields.
Ryan Carson believes that startups solving an acute problem, which he calls a "pain pill," are always better businesses than those offering gradual improvements, or "vitamins."
Mitchell Hashimoto, a founder of HashiCorp, now requires all pull requests that were AI-assisted to be clearly labeled as such.