From agentic AI to infrastructure optimization — an honest record of the real decisions made while designing and maintaining a product as a solo developer. Less about glamorous tech stacks, more about what it takes to keep going.
This category is a record of the problems, experiments, and decisions that come with building and running Vibe Pick alone. From applying agentic AI and Claude Code to real products, to reducing operational workload through automation, to handling traffic from 83 countries on a near-zero infrastructure budget — these posts are less about polished success stories and more about figuring things out one problem at a time.
The illusion and reality of building a global product alone, and why shipping fast matters more than perfect planning are some of the questions I keep running into while building products solo. Tutorials are helpful, but sometimes what you really need is to see how someone else struggled through the same problems.
Vibe Pick is still a work in progress — built slowly, one step at a time, without a large team behind it. If these stories or experiments have helped you in any way, supporting the project (and Daon · Bao's snack fund) would genuinely mean a lot.
Don’t just 'save' time; 'create' it with systems—6 core automation strategies for the solo builder.
Choosing the speed of learning over the accuracy of strategy—breaking free from the prison of hypotheses.
Isn't the silent pull that brings you back even more powerful than the smartest technology?
Why I was blinded by traffic—and the crucial lesson about what truly sustains a service.
In an era overflowing with AI and advanced tools, a deep dive into the sweet fantasies of solo development and the stark complexity hidden beneath the surface.
