Nick Dahlhoff

With AI, I play the role of product manager, engineer, and growth marketer at the same time — I decide what's worth building, then build it and get it users. My last company sold for $960,000.

Looking for a team that needs a do-everything builder → West Michigan · open to relocating in the US or working remote

Fantasy Joes

Live

A fantasy-football ranking game where you build your rankings by picking players head-to-head, one duel at a time. I designed and built the whole thing myself with Claude Code.

Writing

Essays

Build-log essays on shipping real products with AI: what worked, what broke, and what I would do differently.
All Language Resources Built '16 · Sold '21

I started All Language Resources in a Beijing apartment while teaching, reviewing language-learning apps and courses. It grew to 100,000 monthly visitors with six regular contributors and affiliate systems I built and ran. I sold it in 2021 for $960,000, and the site is still live today.
The winding road
Aura Finance I ran the content and social for a DeFi protocol, mostly on my own, for two years. 2024–26
Hometown Coloring Book A sponsor-funded coloring book for West Michigan families, built end to end — including the AI pipeline that turns a sponsor's business into a custom coloring page. 2026
Recess in the Neighborhood A community-owned children's activity center I planned end to end — financials, research, and investor materials — in about three months. 2025–26
Llama College & Alpaca College Two attempts, two years apart, to organize scattered DeFi content. The second used an LLM to sort the feed. Both shut down on low adoption. 2022, 24
Manga Method A language-learning app built on comics, with translations and voice recordings contributed by users — around 2019, before AI made that cheap. 2019
Teaching in Beijing Moved to China alone and taught for three and a half years, building the curriculum where none existed and getting promoted into leading a small team. 2016–19
Poker I played online poker professionally from 2012 to 2016, funding four years of travel across Latin America. 2012–16
Latest writing
Real money is live, and a week of building Fantasy Joes A catch-up on a heads-down week building Fantasy Joes: real money went live, the tournament system came together, and I reworked the game engine, onboarding, and the content behind it. Jul 19, 2026
I rebuilt the Fantasy Joes Discord game and put the whole compare view inside it A couple weeks ago I rebuilt the native Discord version of Fantasy Joes. The full player-compare view now lives inside the server, the game no longer stops at ten picks, and the landing and rankings flow got rebuilt too. Jul 16, 2026
My fantasy football videos aren't good yet. The system that makes them keeps getting better. I don't have time to make short-form videos while I build the rest of Fantasy Joes, so I built a system that makes them: player-comparison videos it researches, writes, voices, lays out, and critiques before I ever see them. They're not good yet, but each run comes out a little less bad. Jul 14, 2026

If you're building something and need someone who can take it from idea to shipped, email me.

ndahlhoff10@gmail.com · @lazyguac · LinkedIn