Setting up a backend for a new product used to mean a familiar sequence of manual steps: create the project, navigate the dashboard, generate API credentials, copy them somewhere safe, configure authentication, wire up the database, set up serverless functions, and connect payment processing — before writing a single line of application logic. For a…
The problem for a solo founder building an AI product is not tool scarcity. There are hundreds of options for every layer of the stack. The problem is tool discipline: choosing a small, coherent set of tools that covers the work from prototype to launch without creating coordination overhead or accumulating costs before you have…
Choosing a launch stack for a micro-SaaS is not primarily a technical problem — it is a risk management problem. Two risks dominate the early stage: not getting paid correctly and spending more time managing infrastructure than building the product. This article scopes deliberately to those two layers — payments and billing, plus deployment and…