Startup Ops

Solo founder tactics, revenue, tooling, pricing, and running a lean SaaS company.

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I Used to Handle Marketing. Now I Manage Coding Agents Too.

Coding agents have changed my working day. I still have to decide who the products are for, and I want more than my own assumptions to work with.

Sep 29, 2026

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AI UGC for $0? Seedance 2.5 Still Bills the Retakes

Seedance 2.5 made one AI UGC take cheap and folded voice and lip-sync into it. The $0 posts count one kept take, not the retakes, the script, or the face.

Sep 28, 2026

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AI Avatar Pricing Has No Common Unit. Here Is One.

One launch page lists four starting prices for the same AI avatar model. How to turn AI avatar pricing into one comparable number, and where you can't.

Sep 25, 2026

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What One Second of AI Video Costs Us, Layer by Layer

One clip passes through five paid layers. We measured one of them with a wallet. The rest are price lists and estimates, and that gap is the honest answer.

Sep 24, 2026

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Nobody Selling AI Video Will Tell You What a Video Costs

Three vendors, three pricing pages, and not one of them answers what a thirty-second video costs. The unit is credits, and what a credit buys is left undefined.

Sep 18, 2026

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The Cheapest Way to Run an AI Product Is to Not Pay for It

Three products now let the user's own Claude plan pay for inference. Anthropic's terms permit one shape of that and ban another, and you cannot tell which.

Sep 17, 2026

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The 3 Moats That Survive Vibe-Coding

Anyone can vibe-code your app in an afternoon. Three moats still hold: distribution, network effects, and data partnerships. Here's which ones we're betting on.

May 18, 2026

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MCP Servers: Vertical Niches Solo Founders Should Build Now

mcp.so listed over 19,500 MCP servers in April 2026. Most of them are commodities. Here's the specific approach that lets solo founders carve out a defensible slice of this growing market.

Apr 7, 2026