Stacks/ solo-founder-saas
Solo Founder SaaS
Ship and run a small SaaS product alone — landing, app, billing, support.
observed by @whysanesandersVerified 2026-08-15
$40/mo
difficulty: intermediate
The components
The recipe
- Build in Cursor. One editor for the whole repo: agent mode for scaffolding, inline edits for iteration. Keep the agent on a Sonnet-class model for cost control.
- Deploy statically where possible. Astro/static output to an edge host; server endpoints only where a form or webhook truly needs one.
- Billing last. Add payments only after the first manual sales — a payment form is not validation.
- Support yourself. A public changelog and a fast personal inbox beat a helpdesk at this scale.
When this breaks down
Past ~2 products or a team of 2+, the single-editor single-brain setup becomes the bottleneck. Re-evaluate then, not before.