Notes from a one-person company
The solo SaaS isn't a stunt anymore. A look at what running one actually requires in 2026, beyond the obvious tooling.
Where founders ship.
The solo SaaS isn't a stunt anymore. A look at what running one actually requires in 2026, beyond the obvious tooling.
Turning down funding from name-brand firms is becoming a real cohort in 2026. The math, taste, and exit logic that drove it.
A look at how ChatSlide is collapsing the gap between idea and finished deck, and why translation and charts are the parts that actually matter.
Postgres, Django, a single Linux box. The most under-rated startup stack in 2026 looks suspiciously like the one from 2014.
The $20/month price point used to be a sweet spot. Token costs, churn dynamics, and a category-wide squeeze have turned it into a trap.
Reddit is the most hostile surface in marketing. Enception.ai is betting that authenticity, not volume, is the lever AI finally makes scalable.
The dominant pricing page format in 2025 looked nothing like 2018. A diagnosis of how the genre lost its way — and what to copy from the holdouts.
MRR screenshots are a lagging indicator and a bad incentive. The metrics indie hackers should be sharing instead.
The founder myth says crossing $1k MRR is a parade. In practice it's a Sunday afternoon and a customer you don't recognize.