Founder playbooks

Opinionated stacks for shipping

Not generic tool lists. Each playbook maps a real workflow, explains the trade-offs, estimates the operating cost, and tells you when to choose something else.

Ship an AI SaaS MVP solo A production web app with authentication, metered AI, payments, analytics, and enough observability to charge the first customers confidently. 8 stack items Build a working agent workflow A durable research-and-action agent that can search, reason, call tools, pause, retry, and leave an audit trail. 7 stack items Build RAG over your own documents A cited question-answering product over private files and selected web sources, with measurable retrieval quality. 7 stack items Run a fully local and private AI stack Local chat, document Q&A, embeddings, and transcription with no routine content sent to a hosted AI provider. 7 stack items Ship an Expo mobile app with AI A cross-platform iOS and Android app with secure AI calls, authentication, subscriptions, analytics, and crash reporting. 8 stack items Build a Chrome extension with AI A Manifest V3 extension that augments the current page while keeping model keys and paid features off the client. 8 stack items Launch an API product with docs and billing A metered developer API with keys, quotas, interactive documentation, billing, transactional email, and operational visibility. 8 stack items Use the $0/mo free-tier dev stack A real, deployed AI web product that can validate demand without a recurring platform bill while usage stays inside published free allowances. 8 stack items Run solo launch-week marketing A coordinated launch with a clear story, useful demo assets, captured leads, lifecycle email, attribution, and daily feedback loops. 8 stack items Automate micro-SaaS customer support A support inbox that answers repetitive questions from approved knowledge, enriches tickets with product context, and hands uncertain cases to the founder. 7 stack items