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Field notes.
Honest notes from building and running a solo product portfolio. What worked, what broke, and what the next project gets to skip.
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01 Why I Bet on SEO and Free Tools Instead of Posting on Social Media
A solo builder's case for search-driven distribution. If you will not sustain the social media grind, do not build a business that depends on it.
- #seo
- #distribution
- #solo_dev
- #strategy
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02 I Shipped a SaaS by Myself. Here Is What It Actually Took.
The honest accounting of taking an AI text-to-speech platform from idea to a live SaaS with paying customers, solo. The build is the easy part.
- #saas
- #solo_dev
- #stripe
- #shipping
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03 What an Ended Partnership Taught Me About Owning Your Work
A business lesson, not a grievance. Once real money and partners are involved, ownership of domains, code, and IP cannot be left to float.
- #solo_dev
- #business
- #ownership
- #lessons
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04 AI Coding Agents Are Fast. They Are Also Confidently Wrong.
Real debugging scars from building a portfolio with AI coding agents. The tools are a genuine superpower and a fluent liar, and the skill is holding both at once.
- #ai_coding
- #claude_code
- #solo_dev
- #debugging
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05 The Solo Dev Build System: How One Person Ships Like a Team
The repeatable system behind a multi-project portfolio. Shipping like a team alone is not about working like ten people. It is about never solving a solved problem twice.
- #solo_dev
- #system
- #process
- #shipping
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