Field notes from the
apocalypse.
Essays and confessions from indie hackers who probably shouldn't be left alone with a dev server.
Saturation isn't a deterrent. It's a buy signal. A note on what's actually scarce in software, and why originality is the cheapest input you can bring.
→ read the whole thingBuild-vs-buy is broken when you're one person.
The framework was written for managers buying tools for engineers. For a solo founder before launch, your hour is worth zero on the open market and a great deal more inside your own product.
I built a Notion clone in 14 hours. The editor wasn't the hard part.
Drag-and-drop on a nested tree took longer than the editor, the database, and the auth flow combined. A note on the gap between perceived and actual difficulty.
The slow tax of stacks.
Subscriptions are priced to disappear. The cost isn't the nine dollars a month; it's the slow loss of the muscle that decides what you should be paying for.
I scanned my own site. It said don't bother.
I pasted saaspocalypse.dev into my own scanner, mostly as a joke. It returned DON'T-tier with a 12-week estimate and a one-liner I'm still not over.
Sent when there's something to say, not when the calendar reminder fires. Currently 5,238 indie hackers reading and slowly nodding.