Solo Founder Tech Stack Guide: Build, Automate, Ship, and Grow
9 posts in this series
Use this series when you are building like a one-person company and need the stack to stay lean but complete. It ties together product building, automation, AI, operations, and growth tools into one working system.
Choosing a Solo Founder Tech Stack: Content Sites, Tools, and SaaS
Map a maintainable solo-founder stack across content, validation, SaaS, payments, automation, data, and operations, with clear timing and cost boundaries.
A Minimum Viable System for Solo Founders: Website, Product, Payments, Data, and Automation
Use a launch checklist to connect website, product delivery, payments, user access, analytics, feedback, automation, and cost controls into one solo business.
Content Site, Tool Site, SaaS: A Three-Layer Product Stack for Solo Founders
Use search demand, tool actions, repeat usage, and payment signals to decide whether to improve content, build a free tool, sell a digital product, or build SaaS.
How to Combine Codex, Claude Code, and Cursor in a Solo Company
Assign Cursor, Claude Code, and Codex across planning, implementation, review, and release validation, with controls for cost, parallel work, and production risk.
Frontend Stack for Solo Founders: Choosing Astro, Next.js, React, Tailwind, and shadcn/ui
Compare Astro, Next.js, React, Tailwind, and shadcn/ui for content sites, client-side tools, SaaS dashboards, maintenance boundaries, and upgrade signals.
Choosing a Backend Stack for a Solo Business: Cloudflare Workers, Supabase, Node.js, and Databases
Map APIs, webhooks, auth, databases, files, and long-running jobs to Cloudflare Workers, Supabase, or Node.js, with current limits and upgrade signals.
A Solo Founder's Deployment Stack: Cloudflare, Vercel, or Railway?
Compare Cloudflare Pages and Workers, Vercel, and Railway by workload, current limits, billing risks, and maintenance overhead for a solo-founder deployment stack.
Choosing a Solo-Founder Database: D1, Postgres, R2, S3, or SQLite
Choose D1, Postgres, R2, S3, or SQLite by classifying business records, events, files, caches, local data, and backups, then checking cost and migration signals.
Building and Launching a WeChat Mini Game from Scratch with AI: Writing Code Was the Easy Part
A retrospective on how an indie developer with zero game dev experience built and launched 'English Word Bento Box' using AI and Cocos Creator.
