Insights on solo development, AI tools, and building digital products as an independent developer.
The honest tradeoffs between hiring a solo freelancer, an agency, and a dev shop to build your MVP, covering cost, speed, communication, risk, and when each is right.
You do not need a rewrite to add AI to a product you already have. Here is where it fits, the smallest valuable first feature, and how to keep model cost sane.
Comparing Bun and Node.js for solo developers. The fast new runtime vs the industry standard. Performance, compatibility, ecosystem, and which one to pick in 2026.
An honest look at what an MVP actually costs in 2026, the ranges you can expect, and the real levers that move the number up or down.
An honest look at whether a single full-stack developer can ship your whole MVP, when it works beautifully, and when you should bring in more people.
Comparing NestJS and Express for solo developers. Opinionated framework vs minimal toolkit. Features, structure, learning curve, and which one to pick.
Comparing Elysia and Fastify for solo developers. Bun-native vs Node-mature. Features, pricing, type safety, and which one to pick.
Comparing Turso and Cloudflare D1 for solo developers. Two edge SQLite databases, different ecosystems. Features, pricing, pros and cons, and which one to pick.
Comparing CockroachDB and DynamoDB for solo developers. Distributed SQL vs AWS NoSQL. Features, pricing, pros and cons, and which one to pick.
Comparing CockroachDB and Prisma for solo developers. A distributed database vs an ORM. Features, pricing, pros and cons, and how they relate.
Comparing Convex and Prisma for solo developers. A reactive backend platform vs a TypeScript ORM. Features, pricing, pros and cons, and which one to pick.
Comparing Drizzle ORM and Prisma for solo developers. Two TypeScript ORMs with different philosophies. Features, pricing, pros and cons, and which one to pick.
Comparing DynamoDB and Prisma for solo developers. AWS NoSQL vs TypeScript ORM. Features, pricing, pros and cons, and which makes sense for you.
Comparing Neon and CockroachDB for solo developers. Serverless Postgres vs distributed SQL. Features, pricing, pros and cons, and which one to pick.
Comparing Neon and DynamoDB for solo developers. Serverless Postgres vs AWS NoSQL. Features, pricing, pros and cons, and which one to pick.