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Buy vs Build: The Solo Builder's Most Expensive Mistake
I spent six weeks building a billing system. Custom invoicing, usage tracking, payment processing, dunning emails. It was clean, well-tested, and exactly what…
Monitoring Your Solo Infrastructure Without a DevOps Team
Every production system fails eventually. The question is whether you find out from your monitoring or from a customer. If you're running a solo builder stack…
Self-Hosting Email: Why I Did It (And Why You Probably Shouldn't)
I run my own mail server. Postfix on a VPS, DKIM keys I generated, SPF records I wrote, DMARC policies I set. It delivers transactional emails for my…
Backups Nobody Runs: A Solo Builder's Data Survival Guide
Every solo builder I know has a database running somewhere. A Mac Mini under a desk, a $5 VPS, a Raspberry Pi in a closet. They've spent weeks building the…
Tailscale: The VPN That Made Me Stop Port Forwarding
I used to forward ports. I used to edit SSH configs. I used to keep a text file of IP addresses for every machine I owned because I couldn't remember which was…