Cursor vs Windsurf for Solo Indie Hackers (After 2 Months Side by Side)
$20 Cursor vs $15 Windsurf, both running the same MVP build. After 60 days the answer wasn’t the cheaper one — and it wasn’t even close.
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GPT-5 Personality: 5 Honest Lessons From the Goblin Bug
OpenAI’s April 2026 post-mortem reveals how GPT-5 personality training can drift undetected—and what solo consultants should do about it.
ChatGPT Pro Plan vs Claude Max: 5 Honest Differences in 2026
Two $100 AI tiers, one decision. The five real differences I’d weigh before swapping my Plus and Pro stack.
B2B SaaS Proposals in 2026: The 5 Best AI Tools I Lean On
Five AI tools, five jobs, one B2B SaaS proposal — the stack I actually pay for in 2026 and the order I run them in.
Claude Code vs Cursor: After 6 Months Side by Side, Here’s My Solo Consultant Pick
Claude Code vs Cursor — six months of side-by-side use on solo consultant work. I have paid Claude Code at $20/month and Cursor Pro at $20/month, used them daily across three to five client projects in parallel, and kept a running log of which one I opened first. The first three months I treated them … Read more
OpenAI–Microsoft Cut the Exclusivity Knot. Here’s What Shifts for a Freelancer’s Stack.
A news brief from a solo operator’s seat — what the April 27 partnership rewrite actually changes for the people paying $20–$200 a month, not the boardroom. In this post TL;DR What the OpenAI Microsoft deal actually changed First-party products stay on Azure 3 things that actually move for a freelance stack What does NOT … Read more
Notion AI Review: 3 Habits That Stuck, 2 I Quietly Dropped After 8 Months
Notion AI was down for about an hour one Thursday morning in March. I was in the middle of processing a 90-minute client call transcript. I opened the transcript, stared at it, and realized I’d forgotten how to do the work I was doing two years ago — reading every line and pulling out what … Read more