Product & SaaS
How to Choose a Tech Stack for a Micro-SaaS
Pick boring, well-supported technology that minimizes operational work while leaving room for the product's actual bottlenecks.
Kirtesh Admute·1 day ago·6 min read
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The Eleven v4 Discount Ends October 12: Reprice Voice Before the Bill Quadruples
A 4 October re-read of ElevenLabs’ pricing page still shows v4 and v4 Turbo at 72 percent off, and the cut still ends on 12 October. Indie voice features priced on that rate have a week to cap retries and republish allowances.
Kirtesh Admute·1 day ago·8 min read
Product & SaaS
Same $2 Token Price, Ten Times the Bill: Budget the New Mid-Tier Models by Finished Job
Sonnet 5.5, GPT-6.1 Sol and Gemini 4 Argon now share a $2/$10 sticker. Independent task costs do not, and that is the invoice a solo SaaS actually pays.
Kirtesh Admute·3 days ago·8 min read
Product & SaaS
A Founder Dashboard Should Tell You What Changed and Why
A dashboard becomes useful when it helps a founder decide what deserves attention today. The trick is to organize metrics around decisions, not around every number the product can collect.
Kirtesh Admute·5 days ago·6 min read
Product & SaaS
Fire the Feature You Shipped Last Week If Nobody Reuses It
Shipping is not proof. Reuse is. Solo products get heavy when every request becomes a permanent room in the house.
Kirtesh Admute·6 days ago·6 min read
Product & SaaS
Only 2.4% of Indie Products Reach $100K ARR: What the Numbers Actually Mean
A fresh analysis of 10,150 products shows how rare six-figure ARR remains for bootstrapped software. Here is how solo founders should read the data and adjust expectations.
Kirtesh Admute·6 days ago·5 min read
Product & SaaS
Ship Reliable AI Features Without a Dedicated ML Team
Prompt evals, fallbacks, cost guards and simple observability that keep a one-person product trustworthy when models change overnight.
Kirtesh Admute·1 week ago·5 min read
Product & SaaS
Best Hosting for Micro-SaaS: Vercel, Cloudflare and Fly.io Compared
How to choose infrastructure for a small SaaS without paying for enterprise complexity before you need it.
Kirtesh·1 week ago·6 min read
Product & SaaS
Enterprise AI Is Moving From Copilots Toward Action-Oriented Software
The latest enterprise AI push is shifting attention from assistants that answer questions to agents that complete workflows across business systems.
Kirtesh·1 week ago·5 min read
Product & SaaS
Why AI Agent Products Are Moving Toward Outcome-Based Pricing
AI agents change the relationship between software usage and value, making completed work a more interesting pricing unit.
Kirtesh·1 week ago·5 min read
