Product & SaaS
How to Monitor a Small SaaS Without a DevOps Team
A small SaaS needs a handful of useful signals: uptime, errors, latency, database health, queues, billing events, and customer-visible failures.
Kirtesh Admute·1 hour ago·6 min read
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What Solo Founders Should Automate First
Automate work that repeats often, has clear rules, and steals attention from higher-value founder work.
Kirtesh Admute·3 hours ago·6 min read
Product & SaaS
The Production Checklist Before Launching a SaaS
A launch checklist should cover infrastructure, data, security, billing, observability, support, and rollback—not just the homepage.
Kirtesh Admute·7 hours ago·6 min read
Product & SaaS
How to Build an MVP Without Building Too Much
Define the smallest workflow that proves the customer outcome. Everything else belongs behind evidence.
Kirtesh Admute·9 hours ago·6 min read
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
Product & SaaS
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·2 days 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·4 days ago·8 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·6 days ago·6 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·6 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·1 week ago·6 min read