Resources library

Cursor alternatives in 2026: Windsurf (now Devin Desktop), GitHub Copilot, Claude Code and Zed compared on price, billing model and fit for solo devs.

Operations

Pinecone alternatives in 2026: Qdrant, Weaviate, and pgvector compared on price and fit. Pinecone starts at $20/mo Builder; pgvector reuses your Postgres.

Operations

Stripe alternatives for SaaS in 2026: Paddle, Lemon Squeezy, Polar, and Braintree compared on fees, merchant-of-record tax handling, and fit.

Operations

Zapier alternatives in 2026: Make, n8n and Pipedream compared on price, billing model and fit; Make starts at $9/mo and n8n self-hosts on a cheap VPS.

Operations

A minimum viable experiment tests one hypothesis with the smallest intervention that can answer it. The definition, how to design one and an example.

Experimentation

Four worked markup cases: the selling price you need when unit cost rises or your margin target moves, with the equivalent markup on cost.

Pricing Strategy

Sales forecast examples: four worked SaaS revenue forecasts with a month-by-month table, showing how starting MRR, growth and pipeline conversion compound.

Forecasting

E-commerce statistics on online sales share, growth and cart abandonment, each from a named primary source: the U.S. Census Bureau or Baymard Institute.

ecommerce

Freelancing statistics on self-employment, nonemployer businesses and remote work, each from a named primary source: the U.S. Census Bureau or the BLS.

Freelancing

Pressure-test price floors, margin targets, break-even volume, and channel economics before you touch packaging, discounting, or wholesale terms.

5 calculators

Check acquisition efficiency, customer value, retention drag, and experiment confidence before you scale spend or call a test a win.

5 calculators

Model people cost, hiring structure, meeting drag, and business value before you lock in headcount, restructure work, or benchmark leverage.

3 calculators

Track runway pressure, cash timing, project payback, and forecasted revenue before financing, hiring, or spending decisions tighten the window.

5 calculators

Build a first-pass startup model with break-even, runway, forecast, and unit-economics views so the plan survives contact with cash and acquisition reality.

5 calculators