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Insights for
indie builders.

SaaS metrics, portfolio strategy, and lessons from building in public as a solo founder.

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Introducing the Shipchart CLI - Manage Your Portfolio From the Terminal

A single binary, three output formats, and full access to your portfolio from the terminal. The Shipchart CLI is built for developers who live in the terminal and the coding agents that work alongside them.

18 March 2026

What's a Good MRR Growth Rate for an Indie SaaS

10% monthly growth sounds amazing until you try to sustain it. Here's what good MRR growth actually looks like at different stages, why early growth rates are misleading, and what the numbers mean over 12 months.

11 March 2026

Roadmap Planning for Solo Founders - Now Next Later

Gantt charts are overkill. A flat backlog is chaos. Now/Next/Later is the roadmap framework that actually works when you're one person building multiple projects.

6 March 2026

Shipchart Now Works Inside Claude Code, Codex, Gemini, and Any MCP Client

Shipchart's MCP server is live. Connect your portfolio to Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Claude Desktop, Cursor, or anything else that supports MCP. Manage your projects without leaving the conversation.

27 February 2026

The Weekly Review for Indie Hackers

Twenty minutes, once a week, checking in on every project. Revenue, errors, mood, plan for next week. It's the simplest habit that makes the biggest difference when you're running multiple products.

20 February 2026

Why Context is Everything for AI Coding Agents

The difference between a useful AI coding agent and a useless one isn't the model. It's how much it knows about your project before it writes a single line of code.

10 February 2026

What is MRR and Why It Matters More Than Revenue

Revenue tells you what happened. MRR tells you what's going to happen. Here's how to calculate it, common mistakes to avoid, and why it's the one number every SaaS founder should track.

1 February 2026

CLI vs MCP vs API: Three Ways to Talk to Your Dev Tools (And When to Use Them)

Your dev tools need to talk to your coding agents. But should you use a CLI, an MCP server, or a REST API? Here's what each one actually does, when it matters, and why you probably want all three.

23 January 2026

How to Track Revenue Across Multiple SaaS Projects

MRR across multiple Stripe accounts, different currencies, and a spreadsheet that's always a month behind. Here's how to actually know what your portfolio is earning.

18 January 2026

Managing a Portfolio of Indie Apps

Running multiple projects means multiple roadmaps, multiple revenue streams, and one brain trying to hold it all together. A practical framework for staying sane.

3 January 2026