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Why I Keep Shipping Small Tools Instead of One Big Product
Why I build five focused tools instead of one sprawling product, and what Git Dojo, OhNine, and Statusline…
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Working notes from the studio. The tools I build, the workflows I keep, the mistakes I paid for.
107 entries · latest 2026-10-26
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The Solo Studio Stack: What I Pay For and What I Self-Host
Subscriptions I keep pay back 5-10 hours weekly, self-host handles predictable batch work
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The 5 Metrics I Check Weekly and the Ones I Ignore
Weekly review runs under 10 minutes with 5 tracked numbers
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Pricing a Digital Product as a Solo Studio
Three-question framework: floor, ceiling, anchor before any product ships
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What 18 Months of Daily Shipping Taught Me About Consistency
Shipped daily for 18 months, missed 11 days total
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The Solo Studio Software Stack: What I Actually Pay For in 2026
Total stack runs 312 EUR/month across 11 tools
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EU Reverse-Charge VAT for Solo SaaS Buyers: The Zero-Euro Math Most Devs Miss
Reverse-charge means you self-account VAT on foreign SaaS and deduct it in the same return, so the net…
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30 Days With the Magnific Image Pipeline: What Stuck and What Got Killed
Spaces replaced three separate tools in my image pipeline and cut context switching to near zero.
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4 Berlin Tech Meetups Worth Your Tuesday Night in 2026
Berlin AI/ML Meetup runs deep technical talks in Mitte coworking spaces, best for hires and peer learning
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Why I Doubled My Product Prices and Lost Zero Customers
Doubled Blueprint from 19 EUR to 33 EUR and FULLMOON from 29 EUR to 49 EUR with zero…
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Solo Studio Invoicing in 2026: Stripe Tax + DATEV Export + USt-VA via API
Stripe Tax handles VAT calculation per customer location automatically across 40+ countries
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Solo Studio Bookkeeping in 90 Minutes a Month: My Stack and Routine
My bookkeeping stack costs 30 EUR a month and runs on four tools.