AI Ops Tools Complement, Not Compete, for Unlimited Power
AI ops tools combine. They don't compete. Whenever a new tool launches, people go "RIP existing tools" (especially if it's from OpenAI). But they're missing the point. The field of ops and AI automation is WAY too big to be covered by one single tool. That's why Agent Builder isn't killing n8n. That's why there's room for tools like Lindy. That's why Zapier and Make still thrive. These tools don't compete. Instead, you have the option to combine. Do this - and you can build the most powerful AI ops infrastructure imaginable. ✨ Agent Builder + n8n Build a chat interface with Agent Builder. Have it delegate to specialized agents in n8n. Request in natural language → Complex solution. ✨ Aidbase + GitHub Copilot Build a user-facing AI chat in Aidbase. Pass bug reports to GitHub Copilot agents. Get PRs with bugfixes proactively. ✨ Let AI mix and match. Build an AI manager in Agent Builder. Give it access to an n8n MCP server. Let it mix and match between a broad list of tools and specialized workflows. At this point, you don't need more people. You need a better understanding of what AI ops infrastructure can do.
Rethinking Distribution Strategies in the Era of Easy Building
@SimonHoiberg Whats your approach to distribution? Especially now that building is "easy". @SimonHoiberg
Embrace Pushback: It Signals Product‑Market Fit
If no one's complaining that your SaaS or service is too pricey, you're probably pricing too low. If your MVP is not buggy and ugly (at least a bit), you launched too late. If no one's giving you hate on social, you're...
Skip Email Confirmation, Accelerate User Onboarding Instantly
We turned off email confirmation. Now users can sign up and get started straight away. Why? Here's what the email confirmation step really adds: - Friction when users are hot. - Extra support requests. - A bad first experience. And the thing is... ❌ It's completely unnecessary. Instead: - Just...
Young Pitchers Promise $50K MRR, Yet Can't Deliver
I'm being pitched daily by 18-20-year-olds who want to help me "add another $50K MRR" by using some unique system they developed. If I were able to generate $50K MRR just like that when I was 20 years old, I sure...
Stop AWS From Charging You for Old Logs
⚠️ AWS is using old logs to drain your wallet. (And you're probably not aware). It actually took a few years before I realized this... But AWS is charging you to store old logs. And by default, they store your logs... forever. So you're...
How Cloud Providers Overcharge You (and How to Fix It)
The video opens with a blunt analogy, likening cloud providers to casinos that lure users into paying for countless micro‑transactions hidden in the UI and pricing models. The presenter, after a week‑long audit of his own stack, outlines six recurring...
Generalist Founders Consistently Outshine Specialist Marketers
It's interesting how I meet so many generalists (typically founders and business owners) who outperform specialists in multiple different fields. A good example is marketers. A lot of founders who had to learn to sell their own products (the hard way) end...
Self‑serve SaaS: No Handholding, Just Automated Value
The perfect SaaS is fully self-serve. Otherwise, it's not really "-as a service" - it's just software. Users should be able to: → Sign up themselves → Onboard themselves → Create value for themselves → Find help by themselves → Cancel by themselves No handholding from the team...
Unified AI Manager Streamlines Tasks Across Custom Models
My team of AI agents was getting out of hand. So I hired a Lead AI Manager. 🤖 TypingMind This is an LLM frontend that can connect with a large set of models - all from one unified UI. But the most amazing part: With...
Unified AI Frontend Tames Wild Agent Team
My team of AI agents was getting out of hand. So I hired a Lead AI Manager. 🤖 TypingMind This is an LLM frontend that can connect with a large set of models - all from one unified UI. Let me show you 👇
Balance 50‑30‑20: Keep Sucky Work Under 20%
In order to operate a healthy business, you should follow the 50-30-20 rule. - At most 20% of your work should be work that sucks, but is crucially needle-moving. - At most 30% of your work should be "leisure" work that doesn't...
Build Internal Tools, Become a Better Operator
And of course - the hidden benefits. - Owning your operation makes you an OUTSTANDING operator. - Designing internal systems forces you to deeply understand your own business. - Solving your own problems makes you see new opportunities. Exactly 100% of the SaaS tools...
Not All SaaS Is Doomed—B2B Still Thrives
These days, everyone's referring to that same famous Dropbox quote. Why? Because it's that one outlier everyone recalls. I hate to say it, but Garry is right on this one. No, that doesn't mean all SaaS is over. But there are segments...
Invest Time Upfront, Save Money and Avoid Vendor Lock
People saying I'm not valuing my time: Of course I do! At some point, I had to exchange my time for the money I'd use to pay for expensive cloud tools. Instead, I now pay upfront with a bit of my...
Build Your Own Tools, Ditch Expensive SaaS
Rewardful didn't have the features we needed (and didn't want to add them). So we vibe coded our own partner platform. It took a week. Screen Studio only works for macOS. So I vibe coded my own for Linux. Took a...
Postgres + Pgvector Outperforms Pinecone for RAG
I just brutally cut another 3rd-party dependency. Our Vector Database: Pinecone. Pinecone used to be an essential building block in Aidbase's RAG system. It would store tens of millions of individual knowledge points from the custom models our users are training on their...
Five Essential Founder Tools for $799 This Black Friday
Let's gooo 🎉 Black Friday is here! Here's your chance to get access to 5 founder essentials. ⭐ FeedHive (AI SMM tool) ⭐ Aidbase (AI support tool) ⭐ LinkDrip (Link tracking tool) ⭐ TinyKiwi (Design tool) ⭐ SignupGate (Fraud prevention tool) You could go with the industry-leading tools...
Founders Succeed by Pruning, Not Adding Features
Most founders add. Few subtract. But the real test isn't how many features or products you can stack. It's having the discipline to stop, cut, or walk away before you lose focus. Lessons in saying no: - Not driving revenue? Drop it. - No proof in...
Solo Founders: Bet on Three Small, Fast‑validated Ideas
Solo founders: stop betting it all on one idea. Run a portfolio of 3 small bets. Pick fast. Validate faster. Here's the playbook: 1) The rule - 3 small bets > 1 big bet. - Target: $1–3k MRR each. 2) Pick bets - Reachable audience. - Already knows the...
Leaving the Cloud Stalls at Storage, Auth, Firewall
I'm moving off the cloud. I started earlier this year, and I'm now 80% done. ✅ It's saving me tens of thousands. ✅ It's giving me vendor freedom. ✅ It's making my lifetime offer more viable. The problem is... I'm now stuck. AWS still owns me on...
Start Simple: Test 5 Pricing Ladders with One‑click Upgrades
Pricing a niche SaaS is hard. Especially while you're still figuring out who loves it and why. You want to test different pricing strategies early. Here are 5 ladders to test: 1) Usage Trigger: events, runs, records. Show a live bar. Offer top-ups. 2) Seats Trigger: active team...
$500 Off FounderStack Lifetime Access to 5 Essential Tools
It's Black Friday! And yes! We're bringing the most banger offer of the year 🎉 FounderStack. $500 off the original price. Pay once. Own it for life. FounderStack gives you instant lifetime access to 5 founder essentials: ⭐ FeedHive (AI SMM tool) ⭐ Aidbase (AI support tool) ⭐...
Validate, Manually Onboard, Then Scale for SaaS Growth
How I got the first 100 SaaS users. - Cold outreach (email/DM). - Target small creators > big businesses. - Build in public, everywhere. I followed the same playbook everytime: 1️⃣ Quick sanity check (Validate demand with ads/landing) 2️⃣ Reach out manually (Onboarding the first 10 users this...
Cut Cloud Costs 90% by Switching to Bare Metal
I'm leaving the cloud 👋 +80% of my SaaS portfolio now runs on bare metal. Why? I have at least 3 major reasons. One of them is, obviously, cost. This year, I've been able to reduce my monthly cloud bill...
I'm Leaving the Cloud! (...and Why You Probably Should Too)
In this video, SaaS founder Simon Hoiberg explains his decision to migrate the bulk of his five‑product portfolio—from a fully managed AWS stack to dedicated bare‑metal servers hosted by Hetzner in Germany. He now runs roughly 80 % of his infrastructure...
Clone, Simplify, Undercut: Win By
Don't worry about copycats. Become the copycat. Cloning bloatware SaaS isn't lazy... It's smart. Strip features. Tighten UX. Drop the price. You're not inventing a new category. You're removing the waste from an old one. Positioning becomes effortless: - Put...
Full Money-Back Guarantee Boosts Checkout Conversions Instantly
If you're on the FounderStack checkout page and about to leave - this pops up. After adding this, we saw an immediate increase in sales. A full money-back guarantee is an S-tier move. Let visitors know that committing is a two-way door...
Monetize N8n Workflows with Lovable’s Simple UI
There is an incredible business opportunity using n8n & Lovable - and I don't hear anyone talk about it! n8n is getting serious traction. And because of this, YouTube and LinkedIn are now FILLED with people sharing really amazing workflows. What is a...
Monetize N8n Workflows with Lovable’s Simple UI
There is an incredible business opportunity using n8n & Lovable - and I don't hear anyone talk about it! n8n is getting serious traction. And because of this, YouTube and Twitter are now FILLED with people sharing really amazing workflows. What is a...
Consolidate Self‑Hosted, Automated, API‑First Tools for Solo Business
Running a lean, bootstrapped (solo) business requires using a lot of tools. But be careful. Don't let it get out of hand. ⚠️ You want to avoid: - High costs - +30 open tabs - Overlapping functionality - Data scattered across many tools You can fix this by...
Four Tools Power a Solo 7‑Figure SaaS Business
4 tools. That's literally all you need. You can run a 7-figure SaaS business, solo. Here's the stack I use for 90% of my business ops. 1️⃣ Cursor - Vibe Coding. AI can now do 90% of your product development. 2️⃣ FeedHive - Vibe Marketing. Creates content,...
Turn Supabase UI Into a Micro SaaS Lifetime Deal
💡 Micro SaaS Idea: - Clone Supabase repo - Pull out the tables/queries UI - Turn it into a small web app Sell on a lifetime deal.
TrustMRR Delivers 6× ROAS, Outperforming Facebook Ads
How my FounderStack ad is doing on TrustMRR: - +1200 website visits - 4 sales (2 at $799, 2 at $1299) - ROAS: +6 The ROAS itself is now better than what I get with Facebook ads (which is 2-3.5 ish). @marc_louvion created an insane...
Simple Solo Stack Drives $10K MRR Micro‑SaaS
Most successful founders keep it dead simple. Building a $10K MRR Micro SaaS while staying solo is possible - but you need to keep it simple too. Here's the solopreneur stack I'd recommend 👇
Launch Niche SaaS in Hours, No Code Needed
A few weeks ago, I created this n8n workflow for generating custom B-roll clips. ⭐ Now I turned it into a SaaS. It took a few hours using Lovable. The opportunity is insane. Listen... build If you're still trying to build the same OpenAI copywriter that...
Avoid Vendor Lock‑in: Choose Flexible Hosting over Cloud Giants
If Hetzner rejects you, you simply find another hosting provider. If your apps can run on Hetzner, they can run anywhere. If AWS or GCP rejects you, and you're deeply locked-in to their services, you're cooked. This is still the better alternative.
AI Agents Will Soon Buy Tools From AI Sales Agents
It's crazy that AI agents are soon going to be smart enough that we can delegate high-level tasks, including giving them a budget and go find the tools needed to solve it. That means, those of us who offer tools soon...
Get Rich Building Niche AI SaaS (...not Another ChatGPT Wrapper)
The video advises founders to abandon generic ChatGPT wrappers and instead build niche AI SaaS products for small, well‑defined user groups, leveraging the vast ecosystem of specialized, often open‑source models. Using a step‑by‑step demo, the creator builds a B‑roll generation...
First $20K MRR Transforms Life; Optimize Location to Cut Costs
100% agree. For me, $0 - $20K MRR was game-changing! Anything after $20K MRR is making my stock portfolio grow faster, but I can't feel any difference day-to-day. With a bit of planning and picking the right country to live in, you...
Short‑term Ad Win, but No Scalable Growth
I got this spot for FounderStack for $699. So far, it's generated: - +400 website visits - 1 sale ($799) So I'm breakeven. And it's only been 3 days. 2 more sales, and the ROAS is similar to the ads I run on Facebook, and I...
Built Our Own Better Partner Platform After Rewardful Fell Short
I signed up for Rewardful. But they didn't have the features we needed. After a quick chat with support: They didn't have any plans to add it. So we're now vibe coding our own! (And honestly, ours is already better 😂) Stay tuned, we're about to...
Growth Takes Time; Success Isn't Only Million‑Dollar ARR
Same here. Took 2.5 years to reach $1M ARR (for all my products combined). And then it plateaued for almost 2 years until I launched FounderStack. Many small businesses never even go beyond 6 figures, and they're still doing better than most! We...
Automate AI News Posts with Brand‑Aligned Voice
AgentKit + FeedHive MCP 🤯 Being first to the conversation after the breaking news hit gives you a HUGE advantage on social media. - It creates authority - It creates trust in your brand - It drives business But keeping up with the constant stream...
This AI Agent Is My New Marketing Department (AgentKit + FeedHive MCP)
Creator Simon Hardburg demonstrates a workflow that combines OpenAI’s Agent Builder with FeedHive’s MCP to automate social-media news scouting, reporting, and brand‑aligned post generation. He builds a multi-agent pipeline: a ‘scout’ that finds headlines, a ‘reporter’ that researches and sources...
Three-Step AI-Driven Workflow Revolutionizes Product Development
Product development has completely changed for us. Three steps. One seamless flow. Step 1: Lovable. Sketch. Prototype. MVP. Ideas take shape fast - design to build, all in one place. Step 2: GitHub + Copilot. Delegate repeat work. Track issues, review PRs. No manual coding - just smart...
Don’t Cripple Free Plans—Be Honest About Pricing.
Having a free plan but making it very limited/borderline unusable doesn't work. You're setting up a negative anchor with your users. - They thought they found a free tool. - They figure out they have to pay to really use it. = disappointed users. And...
SignupGate Stops 8000 Bad Sign‑ups in 3 Weeks
This month, I've prevented 147 dirty sign-ups to enter my systems. These sign-ups were likely to result in: - Chargebacks. - DDos attacks. - Misuse of our products. 🛡️ But SignupGate took care of it. We launched SignupGate just 3 weeks ago. And already, it's handled: - +1.2M...
Automate Product Updates: N8n Saves Two Hours Monthly
I stopped writing product updates and made n8n and GitHub do it. n8n pulls merged PRs → Summarizes diffs → Put together a blog post in Strapi. 2 hours saved every month. Yes, totally worth it.
Build Systems First, Hire Later for Efficient Ops
Thinking about hiring before your process works? Wrong order. Sketch the workflow, automate the tedious 80%, document step-by-step. Only add humans where judgment or trust beats code. Systems first, team second. That's how tiny ops outpace big orgs.