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The tier decision nobody re-asks
You pick free tiers, a vercel.app domain, and no error tracking when a project is a toy. Nothing re-asks those questions when the toy quietly becomes production.
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The vibecoding journey, documented: project updates, the thinking behind each product, and lessons from shipping solo.
This blog is written by AI — on purpose, and I'm not hiding it.
Every post here is written by AI, in my voice and from my real project notes — the same AI I build everything with. The mind, the projects, and the journey are mine (Suhaib Elhadi); the writing is the machine's. I don't hide that. Owning it is the honest version, and honestly the more interesting one.
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Entitlement, not purchase: modelling paid access so pricing can change
If your database stores what someone bought, every pricing change is a migration. Store what they can do instead, and pricing becomes config.
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What I'd tell someone who wants to build nine things at once
Building nine products solo isn't nine times the work of building one. It's a different job. Here's what actually changes.
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Supabase free tier vs Pro: what idling actually costs you
The Supabase free tier pauses a project after about a week of no traffic. Here's what that actually breaks, and how I decide which projects go Pro.
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What RevenueCat handles that you'd otherwise have to build
RevenueCat looks like a thin wrapper over StoreKit until you try to ship subscriptions yourself. Here's what it actually handles, from shipping a real iOS app.
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Why silent failures are worse than loud ones
A system that fails loudly gets fixed. A system that fails silently keeps reporting success — here's how silent failures hid inside my own automations.
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The unlaunched shelf: why 'built and waiting' is its own failure mode
Built and waiting feels like progress, so it never counts as a problem. Here's why an unlaunched shelf is its own failure mode — and what it quietly costs.
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Nine projects, one operator: what actually carries over between them
Nine projects as one operator. The code barely carries over between them — here's what actually does, and the one thing that never transfers at all.
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Where everything stands — August 2026
Nine projects now, two of them actually live. An honest August walk through what shipped, what's still standing at the door, and the gap I haven't closed.
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Next.js or FastAPI? How I actually pick a backend as a solo builder
Next.js vs FastAPI isn't a performance question when you're building solo. It's about where the hard part of your app lives — here's the rule I use, and where it breaks.
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Cadence Studios: the ninth project, and the first one that goes looking for its own clients
Cadence Studios is the ninth project: an AI studio that renders motion reels and builds client sites, then finds the clients — with a hard human gate on outreach.
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The economics of a one-person studio
When building got cheap, the economics of a one-person studio flipped. The cost isn't making things now — it's carrying them. Here's where the weight goes.
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What "done" means when building only takes a weekend
When building a whole app only takes a weekend, done stops being a finish line. Here's how I decide something is actually done instead of just running.
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claude-blog: the closest thing to a content team inside Claude Code
claude-blog runs a team of agents that research, structure, write, and optimize a post — built to rank on Google AND get cited by ChatGPT and Perplexity. Here's why I'm handing my blog to it.
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How do you test what the AI writes? Verification is the real vibecoding skill
The hardest part of vibecoding isn't getting AI to write code — it's verifying it. Here's how I actually test what an AI builds before I trust it.
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My actual toolchain: what building looks like day to day
People ask what tools I use like there's a secret stack. There isn't. Here's the honest, boring, short list of what's actually open when I build.
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Dogfooding App Marketing OS: using my own tool to market my own apps
How does a solo developer market seven apps with no marketing team? I'm pointing App Marketing OS — the marketing suite I built — at my own portfolio.
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The roster changed: a new engine, and a rename that stuck
Two updates worth logging: the portfolio is up to eight projects with ClipForge, and the community tool got its final name — CommunityHQ.
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Where everything stands — July 2026
A quick honest walk through all seven projects: what's live, what's built and waiting, and what I keep telling myself about the difference.
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Seven products in and nobody warned me about the quiet part
Everyone thinks vibecoding means you type a sentence and an app falls out. Seven products later, here's the part nobody tells you.
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App Marketing OS: I built the marketing team I don't have
I can build the apps. Marketing them is the part that quietly kills indie projects. So I built the suite that does the five things I always skip.
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Why I stopped waiting for permission to build things
The first entry. Before the seven products, before any of it — why I decided to just start making the things in my head, with AI riding shotgun.
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