Frameworks

Stacks.

How I think about shipping.

Six setups I actually run, recommend, and bet on. Not "best of" listicles. Not affiliate-soup. Real stacks for real builders — opinionated, tested, and dated.

01

Solo Founder

Ship a SaaS without a co-founder.

You're one person trying to build, market, sell, and support a paid SaaS. Most stacks bloat at every turn — this one stays lean and ships.

Beehiiv Webflow Lemon Squeezy Sanity Plausible Postmark
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Stack cost
$50–80 / mo
Last tested
May 2026
02

Newsletter Operator

Build a $10K/mo newsletter without burning out.

You publish weekly. You want subscriber growth, sponsor income, and AI-assisted repurposing — without spending half your week on tooling.

Beehiiv KIT Castmagic Typefully Sparkloop
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Stack cost
$30–100 / mo
Last tested
May 2026
03

Vibe Coder · MVP

Ship MVPs in days, not months — with AI doing the boring parts.

You can describe what you want. You don't want to fight type errors and CSS. The right AI-coding stack closes the gap between idea and live URL.

Claude Code Lovable Vercel Supabase Cursor
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Stack cost
$60–120 / mo
Last tested
May 2026
04

AI SEO at Scale

Rank 100s of pages without a content team.

You're running programmatic SEO across niches. The stack has to do keyword research, brief generation, AI-drafting, content modeling, and deploy at scale.

Surfer Frase Sanity Webflow Cloudflare DataForSEO
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Stack cost
$100–300 / mo
Last tested
May 2026
05

Course Creator

Sell a $997 course without owning a tech team.

You're subject-matter expert. You need community, audience, payments, and a way to record + repurpose content — without becoming a full-stack dev.

Skool Beehiiv ElevenLabs Loom Stripe Submagic
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Stack cost
$80–150 / mo
Last tested
May 2026
06

Agency · Service

Run an AI-powered agency that scales past the founder.

You sell services. You want lead-gen, project tracking, scheduling, and client deliverables to run themselves — so you can focus on the work that matters.

Apollo Instantly ClickUp Calendly Airtable Loom
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Stack cost
$200–400 / mo
Last tested
May 2026

Why stacks, not lists

Most "best of" lists rank tools in isolation. That's useless. The real question is what works together.

A stack is a bet — on a workflow, on tradeoffs, on a way of shipping. Each one here gets dated, tested, and maintained. When something breaks or a better tool ships, the stack updates. When a stack stops working, it gets retired. No abandoned listicles. No SEO graveyards.