Solo Operator Stack
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Hi, I'm Lukas.
This is my personal space. I build products on my own and write about what I learn along the way. When something's worth sharing, it ends up here.
What I'm building
SnapStudio
LiveA design studio for social content, layers, brand kits and templates, built so an AI agent can drive it directly through MCP.
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Triathlify
LiveAn AI coach that builds your triathlon training plan and rewrites it every week based on what you actually did, not what the calendar said you'd do.
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What I've been digging into
Every so often I pick a handful of topics and go deep instead of skimming everything. Here's what's had my attention lately.
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Anthropic's Confidential S-1 Puts a $2 Trillion Number on the Table. Here's What Happens to Claude API Pricing.
Anthropic filed a confidential S-1 in June, revenue passed $65B annualized by July, and reports now put an eventual IPO near $2 trillion. Here's what changes for anyone building on the Claude API.
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Tim Cook's Last Day as Apple CEO Was August 31. Here's What a Hardware Guy Running the Company Means for Indie iOS AI Apps.
John Ternus became Apple CEO on September 1, 2026, after years running Hardware Engineering. What that background signals for App Store policy and Apple Intelligence API access.
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Cloudflare Logged 13 Incidents in 8 Days This Month. Here's the Actual Fix, Not 'Go Multi-Cloud.'
Cloudflare's status page recorded 13 separate incidents between August 7 and 14, touching R2, Durable Objects, and Workers KV. The frequency is the story, and most multi-cloud advice doesn't fit a solo stack.
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A Standard SaaS Stack Now Costs 34% More Than It Did in 2024. Here's What That Actually Means for a Five-Tool Solo Setup.
PricePulse's H1 2026 report shows a standard SaaS stack going from $84K to $112K a year, driven by AI feature bundling and forced plan migrations. Here's the audit framework for a solo-sized version of that same problem.
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Google Shipped Five Fixes for the AI Overviews Traffic Collapse. Click-Through Is Still Down 58%. Here's What Actually Changed.
Google added Further Exploration links and subscription labels to AI Overviews, framed as a fix for publisher traffic loss. I checked what the data actually says changed.
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