Tested, paid for, used daily.
Every tool here is something I actually pay for and use. No demo-day endorsements, no "trending on Product Hunt" filler. If a pick is ever sponsored, it gets said out loud.
Everything I ship runs on AWS — Cognito, Lambda, DynamoDB, CloudFront, S3, SES. Going deep on one cloud beats spreading thin across three.
What I run: Specifically: CDK for infra-as-code, serverless-first wherever possible, all the boring stuff so I can focus on the app.
See it →Built for growth and monetization. Free up to 2,500 subs, real analytics, ad network and paid subscriptions when you outgrow free.
What I run: Where The Dispatch lives. Embeds cleanly into Astro, owns the list, exports any time.
See it →VS Code with a brain. Cuts the time between "I know what I want" and "the change is in the diff" by an order of magnitude.
What I run: My daily driver for everything: Astro, Swift, TypeScript, CDK, markdown.
See it →The scale lies. Body composition data does not. A monthly InBody scan plus a workout log in a plain spreadsheet beat every fancy tracking app I tried.
What I run: Track total body water, lean mass, and segmental fat over time. Decide off the trend line, not the number on a Tuesday.
See it →Mechanical keyboard for the hours, single big monitor for the focus. Nothing flashy, everything earns its spot.
What I run: A Keychron Q3 (browns), an LG ultrafine on an arm, a $20 Anker dock.
See it →A short, honest list. The ones that actually changed how I run a one-person company. The rest, I sold.
What I run: Working in Public · The Mom Test · Shoe Dog · The Pathless Path · Deep Work.
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