One person + AI agents now outputs what used to require a team. Not cuz AI is magic—because the coordination overhead of borrowing capabilities (copy, design, research, basic code) just disappeared. This unlocks a Cambrian explosion of micro-tools. Robin Sloan called it "home-cooked apps"—software u build like a meal, just for urself. No product-market fit meetings. No edge cases for strangers.Read more →

The barrier between "I wish this existed" and "okay I built it" has collapsed. A tool that makes $5k/month and serves 100 ppl perfectly? That's a life-changing business for one person. Ditch Big Tech and SaaS monstrosities.Read more →

Hard truth tho: the best engineer who cant sell works for someone who can. The actual play isn't eliminating middlemen. It's becoming the middleman. The indie hacker thesis. 35% of 2024 startups had solo founders. One person, one product, one signature line. Begin by building a copycat services for yourself. Not a shiny new idea that requires validation and hope customers will love. Build the first product for yourself, be it www search, custom AI agent or anything else that u use daily.Read more →

The farmers and programmers analogy: one operator with heavy machinery replaces a hundred shovel-wielding workers. Question isn't whether to use the machine. It's whether u know enough to notice when it's digging in the wrong direction. U will build shitload. Whether u sell and capture $? That's the game. Just remember: in food industry neither farmers nor gardeners earn CEO level payouts.Read more →