ATTENTION: Aspiring App Founders

Get Paying Customers For Your App — Before You Build It, Without a VC.

Free Customer-Funded Validation Mini-Course

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MEET Your Fractional Co-Founder

Hey, I'm Ryan!

Ryan is a product strategist, educator, and Fractional Co-Founder with 12+ years in UX and product design.

Through Hard Knock Labs, he helps non-technical founders build and fund their app ideas — with AI, no-code tools, and real paying customers.

12+ years designing products for startups, enterprise teams, and government agencies

Creator of Customer-Funded Validation — turning app ideas into paying customers before writing code

Inventor of the AI-Enabled Design Sprint — coded MVPs in days, not months

Fractional Co-Founder helping first-time founders build funded businesses without giving up equity