First paying users, five rejections, and the uncomfortable arithmetic behind them: the products had been announced exactly once. An honest mid-build account of what actually blocks a solo founder.
Read on Substack →Building in public: the ReLoop.me log. ReLoop.me is a capability-intelligence platform for non-linear careers, founded and built by Ligia Adam in Bucharest, Romania. This page collects, newest first, every public piece written while building it — an honest account of the first paying users and five rejections, an issue of the Between the Lines newsletter on job titles as price tags, the full founding story, an essay on impostor syndrome in the age of AI, essays on capability versus opportunity, why CVs are old stories, why job descriptions read like shifting wishlists, a teardown of seven career patterns found in ten real CVs, a full report on the state of job descriptions in 2026, an essay on accidentally specialising in AI governance, and the origin post that defined the in-between and named ReLoop. New pieces are added at the top after they publish, on Substack, LinkedIn, the Between the Lines newsletter, SlideShare, Medium and the ReLoop.me blog.
Every piece written while building ReLoop.me
ReLoop.me is built in the open. This is the running log — essays, data teardowns, newsletter issues and decks — newest first. New entries land at the top as they publish; scroll down to reach the origin.
Between the Lines: what the title on a job ad actually prices, read across product manager roles — scope, seniority and pay pulled apart from the label on top of them.
Read the issue →The full ReLoop.me story in one piece — from career break to capability intelligence platform. If you read one entry in this log, read this one.
Read on Substack →A founder essay on non-linear specialisation: how building an AI product under EU rules quietly turned into AI-governance expertise — the ReLoop.me thesis, lived.
Read on Medium →The full deck: what Role Intel reveals about AI hiring, capability intelligence, and pay transparency across the 2026 job-description landscape.
View the deck →First data teardown: what running real CVs through the ReLoop.me framework surfaced — seven recurring career patterns the market keeps misreading.
Read on Substack →The other side of the table: how job descriptions inflate, stack scope, and drift from what the role actually demands — the case for Role Intel.
Read on Substack →Why a CV is a backwards-looking narrative rather than a capability signal — and what a forward-looking read of a professional actually needs.
Read on Substack →The thesis piece: the gap in most careers isn't skill — it's how the skill gets read. The problem ReLoop.me exists to solve, stated plainly.
Read on Substack →The origin essay — the moment of almost not showing up, what impostor syndrome looks like when AI moves faster than confidence, and why the answer is learning by doing.
Read on LinkedIn →Where it all starts — the career break, the misread CV, and the moment the word "reloop" appeared: looping back in with clarity. The meaning behind the name, before there was a product.
Read the origin post →Follow along — the log keeps growing
New pieces publish as ReLoop.me ships. The Substack carries the essays and data teardowns; Between the Lines is the LinkedIn newsletter; LinkedIn carries the day-to-day building; the decks and long-form essays land on SlideShare and Medium.