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Startups & founders

5 articles

Finding a problem, validating demand, funding, and building a company.

  • How Solo Founders Run Product Support Without a Support Team
  • The Solo Founder Operating System: Managing Time, Cognitive Load, and...
  • Building in Public Without Burning Out

AI & automation

3 articles

AI products, agents, model trade-offs, and responsible automation.

  • A Minimum-Permission Model for AI Agents: Tools, Scopes, and Human Ap...
  • How to Build a Production Evaluation Suite for LLM Applications and A...
  • When Should You Use an AI Agent in a Product?

Engineering & Architecture

8 articles

Architecture, developer tools, database scaling, security, and reliability.

  • Practical Schema Migrations for Solo SaaS
  • Practical Background Jobs and Queues for Solo SaaS Founders
  • Practical Caching Strategies for Solo SaaS Founders

Product & SaaS

4 articles

Customer research, pricing, onboarding, and retention.

  • SaaS Churn Diagnosis: How Indie Founders Find Why Customers Leave
  • How to Test SaaS Pricing Without Fooling Yourself
  • The Anatomy of B2B SaaS Activation: How to Reduce Time-to-Value from ...

Marketing & Growth

6 articles

Distribution, cold outreach, programmatic SEO, and customer acquisition funnels.

  • Practical Newsletter and Lifecycle Emails for Solo SaaS
  • Simple Referral Systems for Micro-SaaS Founders
  • Cold Outreach for Indie B2B SaaS Without Burning Your Domain

Finance & Unit Economics

5 articles

Bootstrapping, pricing models, cashflow management, and SaaS metric math.

  • Practical Sales Tax, VAT, and GST Basics for Solo SaaS Founders
  • Simple Bookkeeping for Solo SaaS Founders
  • Taking a Salary as a Solo SaaS Founder: A Practical Framework

Legal & Compliance

6 articles

Privacy regulations, GDPR, terms of service, and IP protection for solo builders.

  • Practical Trademark Basics for Indie Founders
  • Practical Data Processing Agreements for Indie SaaS Founders
  • Writing a Privacy Policy That Matches Your Actual SaaS Stack

Developer Tools

5 articles

CLI design, API monetization, open core business models, and developer distribution.

  • Practical Configuration and Credential Handling for Indie Developer T...
  • Practical Opt-In Telemetry for Indie Developer Tools
  • Practical API Versioning and Deprecation for Indie Developer Tools