Zero to SaaS
Lakshmi NarasimhanFor indie devs stuck between ideas and launches — what actually works when you're building SaaS solo, from a Principal SRE shipping 3 products on the side.
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Your Cloud Bill Is A Tax On Someone Else's Resume
There’s an insurance company somewhere — real, working, profitable — with 100,000 monthly users and a peak concurrent load of about 5,000.
They spend high six figures a month on Kubernetes.
They employ twenty people to keep it running.
T...
Claude Overreaches. Codex Underreaches. I'm Still Figuring Out How to Use Both.
I was a one-agent guy until Claude had a run of outages.
On those days I didn’t ship less. I shipped nothing. I’d open my editor, remember Claude was down, stare at the codebase, close the editor. A single-vendor dependency masquerading as...
My Agent Runs 10 Cron Jobs. Three of Them Are Worth the Electricity.
I have a daemon that runs on a server. It’s been up for seven weeks. It has ten scheduled jobs — some hourly, some daily, some weekly. Or at least, that’s what’s on paper.
This is what people are calling “the future of work.”
I’m not sure...
Your CLAUDE.md Is Making Claude Dumber
Your CLAUDE.md is 800 lines long. You spent a weekend organizing it into 27 modular files with a routing system. You wrote a blog post about it. You got upvotes.
Claude is ignoring most of it.
There’s an arms race happening in the Claude...
The Claude Code Leak Revealed a Token Drain Bug. The Real Problem Is Bigger.
Follow-up to: Anthropic Is Losing Money on You Every Month. What Are You Shipping?
Three weeks ago, I wrote that Anthropic is losing money on every subscriber and that smart developers should ship like crazy before the economics normalize....
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I help solo developers build and run their SaaS at enterprise scale — by leveraging agentic coding to operate like a one-person engineering team.
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