Multiple $10K/Month SaaS Apps On A $20/Month Stack

📝 Solo dev Steve Hanov writes…

Last night, I was rejected from yet another pitch night… The feedback was simply: “What do you even need funding for?”

That’s because Steve runs multiple SaaS products at around $10K MRR each.

His total stack cost? About $20/month 🤑

Just a $5–10 server, a free database, and a few open-source tools.

His apps are small niche tools, mostly built to scratch his own itches 👇

• WebSequenceDiagrams – lets engineers draw diagrams of how systems talk to each other
• Zwibbler – a drawing tool you embed on your own website
• RhymeBrain – a rhyming dictionary for songwriters
• eh-trade – AI-powered stock market research

He’s been quietly polishing them for years 🔥

You used to need serious coding chops to ship a SaaS. AI does most of the heavy lifting now – you don’t even need to be a developer.

Steve himself uses GitHub Copilot all day.

Even if the agent spends the next 30 minutes chewing through my entire codebase, mapping dependencies, and changing hundreds of files, I still pay roughly $0.04.

Pick a tiny problem you keep running into, build a tool that solves it, charge a small monthly fee 🤞

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