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Every story we've published, newest first.

  • Founder narrative
    The $500K ChatGPT Wrapper: How Tony Dinh Shipped TypingMind Before It Was Ready
    5 min
  • Founder narrative
    The $7,400 MRR SaaS She is Killing Anyway: a solo founder's diary (June 2026)
    15 min
  • Founder narrative
    I added Catalan to my SaaS and Barcelona conversions almost doubled. Italian flopped. A 60-day localization diary (June 2026)
    13 min
  • Founder narrative
    First hire at $9,120 MRR: a SaaS founder's diary (2026)
    13 min
  • Founder narrative
    How Inés Vargas got her first 100 paying customers in 90 days (and the $1,470 it cost her)
    14 min
  • MRR journey
    Marta del Sol on hitting $4K MRR with three AI agents
    11 min
  • Post-mortem
    Why we killed our SaaS at $12K MRR (a post-mortem)
    11 min
  • Day in the life
    From freelance to $50K MRR in 18 months: a day in the life
    10 min
  • Lessons
    A 90-day post-mortem of a failed AI app launch
    11 min
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  • The $500K ChatGPT Wrapper: How Tony Dinh Shipped TypingMind Before It Was Ready
  • The $7,400 MRR SaaS She is Killing Anyway: a solo founder's diary (June 2026)
  • I added Catalan to my SaaS and Barcelona conversions almost doubled. Italian flopped. A 60-day localization diary (June 2026)
  • First hire at $9,120 MRR: a SaaS founder's diary (2026)

Back issues

  • How Inés Vargas got her first 100 paying customers in 90 days (and the $1,470 it cost her)
  • Marta del Sol on hitting $4K MRR with three AI agents
  • Why we killed our SaaS at $12K MRR (a post-mortem)
  • From freelance to $50K MRR in 18 months: a day in the life
  • A 90-day post-mortem of a failed AI app launch
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