“Most decisions are made before the meeting. Ninety-plus percent of the time, the council members just vote in sync.”
Sunil Rajaraman ran for city council in his 19,000-person town. He didn't expect to find a startup idea, but he discovered a $2 trillion market that almost everyone in tech had overlooked.
Local government quietly decides housing, schools, zoning, and what gets built where. Every meeting is on the record, but unreadable. So Sunil built Hamlet, which uses AI to turn those meetings into searchable transcripts. The first paying customers came to him: a real estate developer, then another, then a data center company.
This isn't his first company, but it's his first solo one. He's blunt about why: nobody was going to care about this problem as much as he did, and trying to force a co-founder situation was a waste of time.
Listen now on the Solo Founders Podcast:
Solo, together.
Julian
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