Solopreneur

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How I Use AI to Run Two Blogs Without Hiring Anyone

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. I run two blogs. Not one — two. And I do it alone, without a content team, a virtual assistant, or a single line of code. The secret isn’t working harder. It’s building a system that does the boring parts for you. ...

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The AI Stack I'd Use With $0 (If I Had to Start Over Today)

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. If I lost everything tomorrow — no subscriptions, no bookmarks, no muscle memory — and had to build an AI-powered workflow from scratch with exactly zero dollars, here’s what I’d set up before lunch. Not the “best 47 tools” list that makes your eyes glaze over. The actual six tools that form a working system. Every single one has a free tier that’s genuinely usable, not the “free trial then $49/month” bait-and-switch. ...

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I Let AI Handle My Customer Messages for a Month — Here's What Happened

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. If you run a business alone, you know the feeling. You wake up to 14 customer messages. Some are simple — “what’s your return policy?” Some are urgent — “I paid but haven’t received anything.” Some are just… weird. And every single one needs a response, because ignoring customers is how businesses die. ...