I spent 6 hours fighting DNS and SMTP just to take one payment. So I built a script to never do it again.

I quit my day job with one goal: build enough solo leverage to get out of my shared living situation and into a cabin in the woods. Me. The cats. Paradise.

Then reality hit.

I'm a .NET dev. I wanted to sell a thing. I thought I'll just whip up a store, connect Stripe, and boom.

It wasn't boom. It was a pain in the ass.

• 3 different DNS records just for email
• Email forwarding loops
• Provisioning servers on DigitalOcean
• Wiring together Resend, Porkbun, and ImprovMX

By the time the first payment actually went through, I'd spent more time on DevOps plumbing than on the actual product.

We're devs. We're basically wizards. But we spend half our time doing digital janitor work.

So I automated the janitor out of the room.

I built RunCabin.

It's a provisioning engine that handles the hell for you:

• Give it a domain
• Give it a Stripe key
• It spins up a live, payment-enabled shop, DNS, SSL, transactional email, the whole stack

Your Stripe dashboard is your backend. If it's in Stripe, it's in your shop. No manual DNS tinkering. No SMTP headaches. I can launch a store in under 20 minutes.

Here's where I need your brutal honesty.

I'm at a crossroads. Is "Stripe-driven e-commerce provisioning" a real productor have I built a very elaborate solution to my own hyper-specific frustration?

I believe a solo dev with the right tools can do more today than entire teams could five years ago. I'm betting my cabin-in-the-woods dream on that leverage.

So I'm asking:

• Would you pay for a "shop in a box" that just stays out of your way?
• Or is the plumbing just a tax we all accept?

Happy to answer anything about the stack or the build. And if you want to see it: runcabin.com

(First 10 stores: setup is free. I do the onboarding call personally.)