NowClaude Opus 5.5 is live — the solo founder playbook.
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Field notes and teardowns for founders building without a board.
Startups
How modern indie hackers are replacing traditional 10-person teams with autonomous workflows, lean stacks, and targeted customer acquisition.
Kirtesh · 3 hours ago
Startups
Why the modern software buyer trusts raw numbers, architectural diagrams, and founder retrospectives over corporate PR.
Kirtesh · 11 hours ago
AI
Anthropic shipped Opus 5.5 on September 22 with Fable-class agentic coding, $4/$20 token pricing, and cache reads at $0.20 — here is how an indie team should switch this week.
Kirtesh · just now
Startups
The 7-day sprint framework for turning conceptual ideas into tested, deployed MVPs with real Stripe checkouts.
Kirtesh · 15 hours ago
AI
OpenAI shipped Sol and Luna on September 22 at 50% of GPT-5.6 rates. Here is the routing table for a bootstrapped product that cannot put Astra on every request.
Kirtesh · today
AI
xAI shipped Grok 4.7 a day before the Anthropic and OpenAI price cuts. Pair it with Grok Voice Transcribe 2.0 only where latency beats another 2% on a coding bench.
Kirtesh · today
AI & Code
How modern web tooling unlocks unprecedented iteration speed for solo developers building complex software.
Kirtesh · 7 hours ago
Startups
Everyone can draft a 2,000-word explainer now. The indie SEO edge is original tables, shipping notes, and pages Google can attribute to a real publisher.
Kirtesh · today
Startups
Cheap pricing attracts demanding support burdens and churn. Here is the framework for pricing your solo SaaS on business value.
Kirtesh · 9 hours ago
Security
Essential defense checklist: rate-limiting, edge WAFs, automated backups, and credential isolation.
Kirtesh · 13 hours ago
Venture
Escaping the unicorn treadmill: why more engineers are choosing profitability and complete ownership.
Kirtesh · 5 hours ago
AI
Google’s September speech-to-speech models claim 97 languages and async tool calls. That is a product feature if you sell to people who will not type a ticket.
Kirtesh · 1 day ago
Apps
Qualcomm’s September 22 flagship chips are not a phone story only. If your app can run a small model on device, you just deleted a line item.
Kirtesh · 1 day ago
AI
MiMo-V2.6-Pro and Flash landed MIT-licensed on September 22 with a public RL stack. That is a self-host option, not a reason to abandon managed APIs tomorrow.
Kirtesh · 1 day ago
AI
Alibaba’s mid-September omni model takes text, image, audio, and video and answers in text with a 1M-token window. Useful if your agent is still a pile of chunkers.
Kirtesh · 2 days ago
Security
Frontier models now click, type, and open shells. The security checklist for a solo shop is secrets, scopes, and a kill switch — not a PDF policy.
Kirtesh · 2 days ago
Apps
SWE-2 shipped September 10. The indie take is process: specs, evals, and a human merge gate — not a new religion about autonomous engineers.
Kirtesh · 3 days ago
Startups
DeepSeek dropped V4.1 Flash on September 10. For bootstrappers it is a batch and eval workhorse, not a brand to print on the homepage.
Kirtesh · 4 days ago
