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Val.town: serverless scripts that run in your browser
Write a cron job, a webhook handler, or a tiny API endpoint in the browser and have it live in 30 seconds. No account setup, no deploy pipeline — just a URL. The closest thing I've seen to "ideas as infrastructure."
Resend for transactional email
Finally, an email API built by developers who send email.
Plunk — open-source Mailchimp alternative
Self-host your entire email infrastructure for $0.
Mintlify for docs that don't embarrass you
AI-generated docs that actually match your codebase.
How Screely went from side project to acquisition in 14 months
A single-page tool that makes screenshots look beautiful. Launched on Product Hunt on a Tuesday morning, hit $800 MRR by Friday, and was acquired 14 months later. The founder breaks down every decision — the ones that worked and the three that almost killed it.
The $0 marketing playbook behind Plausible
Open-source, privacy-first, and growing 15% MoM with no paid acquisition.
Why this SaaS failed at $2k MRR
Not every teardown ends in acquisition. This one is more useful.
Notion's first 1,000 users: the inside story
Cold outreach to Slack communities. No press. Just manual.
The Courage to Charge What It's Worth
Pricing anxiety is almost universal among indie hackers. This essay diagnoses why — it's not math anxiety, it's identity anxiety — and offers a reframe that has helped more founders I know than any pricing formula ever has. Required reading before you set your next price.
Writing as competitive advantage
Patrick McKenzie on why the ability to write clearly compounds like interest.
The difference between busy and productive
A solo founder's meditation on what actually moves the needle.
When to quit your job and when not to
The framework one founder used. It's not about MRR.
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Left her agency job in Seoul to build solo
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Pre-revenue, building in Berlin
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