A blog.
The Mom Test for Solopreneurs: Get Truth, Not Praise
The Mom Test for solopreneurs: three rules and the exact questions that make customers tell you the truth about your idea — before you build anything.
OLVASD EL ▸App vs Ecosystem: Decide Before You Design a Database
App vs ecosystem: the one question to answer before designing a single database table. Get it wrong and you rebuild your foundation after the concrete sets.
OLVASD EL ▸When to Break Database Rules: JSONB, Counters, Cents
When to break database rules: the three exceptions that survive scrutiny — JSONB for truly flexible data, denormalized counters, and money as integer cents.
OLVASD EL ▸Transactional vs Marketing Email: Get the Split Right
Transactional vs marketing email: why your SaaS needs two separate systems, and how mixing them sends your receipts — and your revenue — straight into spam.
OLVASD EL ▸Cost to Run a SaaS Solo in 2026: The Real Monthly Bill
The real cost to run a SaaS solo in 2026, with 11 products and thousands of users: the full monthly stack, how it scales, and why margins top 90%.
OLVASD EL ▸What Is Deployment? How Your Code Becomes a Live SaaS
What is deployment? How the app on your laptop becomes a live SaaS anyone can use — builds, hosting, environment variables, and 30-second rollbacks explained.
OLVASD EL ▸Background Jobs Explained for Non-Technical Founders
Background jobs explained: how your SaaS sends 1,000 emails or generates a PDF report without freezing the screen — queues, retries, dead letter queues.
OLVASD EL ▸AI Agents for Non-Technical Founders: Which to Use When
AI agents for non-technical founders: explorer, planner, builder, debugger — which to use when, and the wrong-agent mistake that costs you real hours.
OLVASD EL ▸Digital Product Advantage: Stop Selling Your Time
Selling time has a mathematical ceiling. The digital product advantage: build once with AI for a fraction of the old cost, sell repeatedly. The leverage math.
OLVASD EL ▸Zero Marketing Budget Playbook: 30 Days, €0 Spent
The zero marketing budget playbook: a 30-day sprint from network audit to 3–5 paying customers — the same €0 approach behind 11 products built for €3,250.
OLVASD EL ▸SaaS Monitoring for Solo Founders: My €9/Month Stack
SaaS monitoring for solo founders: the €9/month stack that caught a 2:47 AM production failure and had it fixed in 90 seconds — with two clicks, not code.
OLVASD EL ▸10 Tables Every SaaS Needs: The Database Blueprint
The 10 tables every SaaS needs — organizations, users, members, activity log and more — plus the copy-paste prompt that gets AI to build all of them right.
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