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The Four-Pass Check I Run Before Calling Anything Shipped
The same four-pass check, cold-open, edge-input, break-it, plain-language, that every RAXXO tool passes before I call it finished.
Why I Keep Shipping Small Tools Instead of One Big Product
Why I build five focused tools instead of one sprawling product, and what Git Dojo, OhNine, and Statusline Builder taught me about scope.
The Solo Studio Stack: What I Pay For and What I Self-Host
Subscriptions I keep pay back 5-10 hours weekly, self-host handles predictable batch work My line: pay when downtime hurts, self-host when the job runs unattended...
The 5 Metrics I Check Weekly and the Ones I Ignore
Weekly review runs under 10 minutes with 5 tracked numbers I track repeat buyers, not raw traffic or follower counts Email replies beat likes as...
Pricing a Digital Product as a Solo Studio
Three-question framework: floor, ceiling, anchor before any product ships First three products were priced 40% too low, all three The anchor question fixed pricing faster...
What 18 Months of Daily Shipping Taught Me About Consistency
Shipped daily for 18 months, missed 11 days total Automating the boring 80 percent kept the streak alive Two systems burned me out fast, I...
The Solo Studio Software Stack: What I Actually Pay For in 2026
Total stack runs 312 EUR/month across 11 tools Cut 4 subscriptions worth 178 EUR by consolidating One swap paid for itself in 6 days Rule:...
EU Reverse-Charge VAT for Solo SaaS Buyers: The Zero-Euro Math Most Devs Miss
Reverse-charge means you self-account VAT on foreign SaaS and deduct it in the same return, so the net is zero A valid VAT ID on...
30 Days With the Magnific Image Pipeline: What Stuck and What Got Killed
Spaces replaced three separate tools in my image pipeline and cut context switching to near zero. Relight turned phone-shot product photos into store-ready images without...
4 Berlin Tech Meetups Worth Your Tuesday Night in 2026
Berlin AI/ML Meetup runs deep technical talks in Mitte coworking spaces, best for hires and peer learning WeAreDevelopers Berlin is the biggest crowd, polished talks,...
Why I Doubled My Product Prices and Lost Zero Customers
Update, July 2026: the ladder moved again. RAXXO crossed into German VAT registration (Regelbesteuerung), and prices went to Git Dojo 9 EUR, Blueprint 49 EUR,...
Solo Studio Invoicing in 2026: Stripe Tax + DATEV Export + USt-VA via API
Stripe Tax handles VAT calculation per customer location automatically across 40+ countries A 50-line Node script exports the monthly DATEV CSV my tax advisor actually...