Last month I launched BuzzWire — a SaaS product built and marketed by exactly one person. The content, the launch, the SEO, even the code: all of it runs through an AI stack wired together with MCP. Here’s the real setup, the exact prompts, and the honest limits. There’s a moment every solo founder hits. You look at your to-do list and see five jobs: writer, designer, analyst, ops person, and the one you were actually hired for — the person deciding what to do next. The old answer was: hire, or drop balls. The 2026 answer is different. You keep the deciding job and give the other four to a stack.…
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The Growth Hacking Framework I’ve Used for 18 Years (2026 Edition): North Star + ICE + Weekly Loop
My first startup sold furniture online. We tried every growth trick going — and most worked exactly once. What finally moved the needle wasn’t a hack. It was a system. Here’s the North Star + ICE + Weekly Loop framework I’ve rebuilt across 18 years, cut to two parts you can stand up in 30 days. TL;DR — THE WHOLE FRAMEWORK IN 60 SECONDS My first startup was MebelKart, a furniture marketplace. In the early days, I did growth on instinct. One week it was a flash sale. The next, a referral offer. Then influencer seeding. Then a discount. Then whatever a competitor had just tried. Some of it worked.…
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Growth Skills: Free Open-Source AI Tools for Founders
Growth Skills: Free Open-Source AI Tools for Founders Growth Skills is a free collection of AI agent skills for founders who think in bets, not tactics. Install them into Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, or any agent on the Skills spec — and get a brutally honest co-founder in your terminal. → github.com/ranjeeetvimal/growth-skills
