Ken Johnson's interactive office: a workstation, a red sport motorcycle, a wall map, and the 2020 Golden Kitty trophy on the bookshelf

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Ken Johnson

Senior PM who operates like a one-person product studio. I bought a $10K micro-SaaS that did ~$650K in a year, launched a lead-data product in three months, and now ship production software solo with AI agents.

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Selected work · 4 bets

Product bets that pay off

The work behind the room: an acquisition, a 0→1 launch, and a production app built solo. Revenue figures are 12-month totals from my work records.

MailLead
~$650K
LazyLeadz
~$250K
LeadQuest
Live · built solo
01 / Workstation
MailLead

$10K upfront · $45K in week one · ~$650K in 12 months

MailLead — I bought the missing step in our funnel

Our customers found leads with us, then left to send cold email somewhere else. Instead of building a sender, I bought Mailead, a stalled product with about 100 paying customers, and kept both founders on for three months. We launched it to our community and did $45K in the first week.

$10K
Paid upfront
$45K
First-week revenue
~$650K
12-month revenue

What I did

  • →Interviewed the founders, reviewed the codebase, and mapped the scaling risks before signing
  • →Got the founder-engineers to fix activation, deliverability, and infrastructure before new features
  • →Launched to our own community first, then expanded through marketing partners
“Sometimes the fastest roadmap is the one you buy.”
Full case study ↗
02 / Lounge
LeadQuest

Production SaaS · built solo · no engineering hire

LeadQuest — a live product I built alone with AI agents

Paste in a company URL and LeadQuest builds a living go-to-market doc: ideal customer profile, competitors, outreach ideas, action items, and leads. It grew out of my diagnosis of why a pay-per-lead product wasn't retaining customers. Since December 2025 I've taken it from spec to production with Claude Code and Codex.

0
Engineers hired
Dec '25
Build started
Live
In production

What I did

  • →Diagnosed the retention problem and designed the interface
  • →Wrote the specs, chose the architecture and hosting, and set up the servers
  • →Owned production quality: rolled back a search regression and added query evals and latency budgets
“Agents write the code. Making sure it works is still my job.”
Full case study ↗
03 / Lounge
LazyLeadz

One Figma screen → launched in 2–3 months · ~$250K in 12 months

LazyLeadz — from one Figma file to a lead-data product

I started with a single Figma screen for search. I hired the engineer, sourced and licensed the data, designed the rest of the product, and ran delivery. It launched in two to three months and did about $250K in its first 12 months.

~$250K
12-month revenue
2–3 mo
Figma to launch
2.4M+
Rows exported by users

What I did

  • →Wrote the role, ran interviews, and hired a senior Bubble engineer
  • →Worked through data quality, licensing, and compliance with the data vendor
  • →Expanded the design, picked the API providers, and ran standups through launch
“Sourcing data and hiring the right engineer are product skills too.”
Full case study ↗
04 / Mezzanine
Work With Me

Now · Open to PM roles & advisory

Working with startups and founders

I help founders decide which product bets are worth making, de-risk them fast, and turn them into revenue. I'm open to product management roles and select fractional and advisory work.

What I did

  • →Build-vs-buy decisions and micro-SaaS acquisitions
  • →0→1 product builds with AI coding agents
  • →Product strategy: where to spend your time and money
“Deciding where to invest time and money is the whole game.”
Selected work ↗

Everything else in the room

Ken on his motorcycle at night on Yaowarat Road, Bangkok

Vehicle Bay

The Bike

Night rides through Bangkok. Told my mom it wasn't very fast 😂

Sunset over a beach in Bali, Indonesia

Lounge

Places I've lived

Lima, Bangkok, Da Nang, and Bali have all been home at some point.

Bookshelf

Golden Kitty — No-Code Product of the Year

We won Product Hunt's 2020 Golden Kitty for No-Code Product of the Year.

The Bar

I bought a micro-SaaS instead of building it

AI made code cheap. It didn't make customers, working infrastructure, or time cheap. Here's how I made the build-vs-buy call on Mailead, and when I'd make it again.

Read the essay ↗