@starterstory: Meet Piotr, a solo dev in Poland who built Visualizee, an AI rendering tool for architects and interior designers. He runs the whole thing on nights and weekends while working a full-time job. Here’s the entire stack behind a $10K/month side project: > Cursor + Claude Code for building > Fal AI for GPU / image generation > Supabase for database, auth, and storage > Next.js on Vercel for hosting > Stripe for payments (subscriptions from day one) > Mailerlite for email automation > Ahrefs + MonitorMySEO for SEO > PostHog, Google Analytics, and Sentry for tracking No bloated enterprise setup. No team. Just a solo dev with 300 active subscribers paying $35 to $80/month. The real unlock wasn’t the stack though. He was stuck at $150/month for TWO years with a complicated node-based UI. Then he pivoted to a simple chat interface (basically a ChatGPT-style wrapper) and went from $150 to $10K/month in 6 months. His advice: don’t build the most powerful product you can. Build the simplest product your customer needs.

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