# Ben Katz (@ben-makes-stuff)

Quit my Staff SWE job at DoorDash to build my own businesses ✈️ flightschools.fyi (directory) 🐶 watchdog.chat (ai moderation) 🗽 hackayork.com (nyc makers)

## Status
- Tier: Listed — real profile, not ranked, no account connected
- Joined: 2026-09-06
- Last ship: unknown

## Project
- Name: flightschools.fyi: Find the Best Flight School Near You
- URL: https://flightschools.fyi/?via=buildinpublic
- Stage: Unspecified

## Scores
- Ship streak: not measured
- Momentum: not measured
- Band: not measured
- Rank: not ranked
- Why: no connected account, so nothing here can be machine-verified
- Audience (self-reported): 0 followers

## Last 0 qualifying ships
- none recorded

## Connected platforms
- none — every figure on this profile is self-reported

## Linked but not connected (self-reported, not counted)
- X (@ben_makes_stuff) — unknown followers claimed — https://x.com/ben_makes_stuff

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Canonical: https://www.builtinpublic.dev/builders/ben-makes-stuff
Generated: 2026-09-08T13:46:01.210Z
Ship streak is consecutive ISO weeks with at least one qualifying update; at most one missed week is forgiven in any 13-week span. Momentum is a 0-100 composite of cadence, engagement, audience growth and community support, ranked against the live cohort. Method: https://www.builtinpublic.dev/methodology