Ship It Alone

A practical guide

Ship It Alone

Building a real SaaS with an AI coding agent.

How one person built, launched and runs a live subscription product. Every decision, bug and outage is real.

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Who it’s for

  • You want to build and run a real product on your own, with an AI coding agent.
  • You can follow technical writing, but you don’t want a textbook.
  • You care about the unglamorous parts: billing, email, backups and staying online.

Not for you if you want a no-code template or a get-rich-quick plan.

The real story behind it

The book follows Mathter, a live website that makes printable math worksheet packs. One person designed it, built it with an AI coding agent, takes payments through Stripe and runs it from a small computer at home.

You get what actually happened: the plans that changed, the bugs that only appeared with real money, the outages and the rules each one became. The code stays private. The decisions are all here.

What’s inside

  1. Part 1 Before you write any code
    1. 1 Pick a problem small enough to finish
    2. 2 A stack you can run alone
    3. 3 Working with an AI agent without losing control
  2. Part 2 Building the product
    1. 4 Money: plans, trials and Stripe
    2. 5 The engine: generating content that is never the same twice
    3. 6 Making a PDF that fits the page, every time
    4. 7 Accounts, email and the boring parts that break
  3. Part 3 Running it
    1. 8 Hosting on almost nothing
    2. 9 Outages I caused, and what each one taught me
    3. 10 Free pages as the front door
    4. 11 An AI “CEO” and an AI “operator”
  4. Part 4 The honest part
    1. 12 Numbers, mistakes and what I’d do differently

Appendices

  1. A Starter CLAUDE.md
  2. B Launch checklist
  3. C Stripe test-mode script
  4. D Glossary for non-developers

What you get

  • The full guide as a PDF, about 114 pages.
  • A starter CLAUDE.md: the rules file an AI coding agent reads every session.
  • The launch checklist and the Stripe test-mode script, ready to use.
  • Every future update of this edition, free.

Questions

What format is it?
A PDF you can read on any device or print. The download link arrives by email right after purchase.
Do I need to know how to code?
It helps. The book explains every idea in plain words, and Appendix D is a glossary, but you’ll get the most from it if you’ve built something before.
Which AI agent does it use?
Claude Code. The habits carry over to other agents.
Can I get a refund?
Yes. Full refund within 14 days, no questions asked.
Who handles payment?
Lemon Squeezy, our merchant of record. They take the payment and handle sales tax for your country.
Something else?
Email hello@solosaas.ca.

Ship yours.

Read the free chapter first if you like. It’s about the outages.

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