AI products are fundamentally different from traditional software. This post distills 12 counterintuitive lessons from 20 builders, the CC/CD framework for AI development lifecycles, and a 3-phase eval system — all sourced from Lenny Rachitsky's newsletter.
A guide to zero-cost minimum monitoring using Sentry and Betterstack, showing how an 80-minute pre-launch investment reduced error response time from 13 hours to 1 hour.
Documenting the psychological mechanisms and viral loop strategies behind three sharing elements designed for MMU's PLG growth: score cards, badges, and custom checklist links.
AI products are fundamentally different from traditional software. This post distills 12 counterintuitive lessons from 20 builders, the CC/CD framework for AI development lifecycles, and a 3-phase eval system — all sourced from Lenny Rachitsky's newsletter.
A guide to zero-cost minimum monitoring using Sentry and Betterstack, showing how an 80-minute pre-launch investment reduced error response time from 13 hours to 1 hour.
Documenting the psychological mechanisms and viral loop strategies behind three sharing elements designed for MMU's PLG growth: score cards, badges, and custom checklist links.
Solving the false-pass problem in MMU's checklist by designing a condition marker system with 17 feature flags and improving score accuracy through 48 regression tests.
OSS monetization framework for solo builders. Outlines a 5-stage strategy using the 'What (Free) - How (Paid)' model to generate revenue without enterprise sales or managed infrastructure.
Analysis of AI infrastructure monetization. Details the 'software free, operations paid' model, where revenue is driven by GPU compute hours and data storage volume in the AI stack.
Analysis of Langfuse and Dify's open-source monetization. Explains why observability layers are structurally superior to frameworks due to higher switching costs and continuous usage.
Monetization strategies of LangChain, LlamaIndex, and CrewAI. Analysis of the 'free framework, paid operations' pattern and its application to solo builder models.
Why MMU is an MIT open-source CLI, not a paid SaaS. Details the solo builder workflow fit, the 3-tier 'What-How-Auto' revenue model, and explicit validation metrics.
Documenting how 534 SaaS launch checklist items were derived from 80 service analyses, 12 guidelines, and 5 real-world failures, including the P0-P3 priority logic.
Analyzing the difference between 'code complete' and 'product complete' through the 3-week post-feature work (payment stability, security, legal docs, SEO, etc.) which accounted for 88% of the effort.
Analyzing n8n's Fair-code license strategy as a defense against AWS risk in open source monetization, and how licensing defines the boundaries of viable business models.
Comparison of open source licenses (MIT, Apache 2.0, BSL, etc.) and a decision framework based on project scale and revenue model, including MMU's choice of MIT.
Essential security checklist for solo SaaS builders. Defense against five critical OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities and real-world security configuration cases improved for WICHI.