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I broke my own deploy yesterday and had no way to know. So I'm building a status page

Running your own billing on your own tool is the most honest QA there is

Before our launch video I made a "do not claim" list. It ended up longer than the script.

I made self-hosting my SaaS a 3-secret, one-command setup. The hard part wasn't the infra.

The expensive bugs in my SaaS never crashed — they just stayed quiet

Everyone prices self-hosting as the cheap tier. i'm doing the opposite — it's my most expensive option.

The most dangerous place in your product isn't the bug list. it's the "valuable but annoying" backlog where features go to die.

I deliberately did NOT make my whole product self-hostable — kept the licensing layer in my cloud. here's the reasoning

Decided not to put a public price on my new tier. taking "founding customers" instead -here's the thinking

Everyone prices self-hosting as the cheap tier. i'm doing the opposite — it's my most expensive option.

I got tired of rebuilding auth + billing for every SaaS, so I built the whole operations layer once and dogfooded it on 4 products

I got tired of rebuilding auth + billing for every SaaS, so I built the whole operations layer once and dogfooded it on 4 products

A day in the life of a solo founder who's better at building than being found

I optimized my whole funnel for the wrong half — turns out getting attention was never my problem

Meeting Cofounders: 27 places to find them

I got tired of rebuilding auth + billing for every SaaS, so I built the whole operations layer once and dogfooded it on 4 products

A day in the life of a solo founder who's better at building than being found

A stranger told me my feature was pointless. I fixed half of it in a day — and I think being honest about the other half matters more.

A day in the life of a solo founder who's better at building than being found

I can build anything. Distribution is the wall I keep hitting.