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Weekly long-form on lifetime deals, useful tools, and running a business on cheap software. Written by Klaas, with a little help from Claude.
Niche service businesses you can build with €200 of lifetime tools
Five concrete service businesses you can run on a one-time €200 lifetime-tool stack, with the tools and realistic 12-month revenue for each.
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AI tool lifetime deals — what’s worth buying and what’s a sticker price
AI lifetime deals are the most volatile category on any marketplace. Here is how to tell a genuinely useful buy from a sticker price the vendor can’t keep.
Zapier alternatives with lifetime pricing tiers
Zapier bills by task and the cost compounds. Here are the lifetime-priced automation tools worth swapping to, and the volume where staying put wins.
Pricing your SaaS when you have no customers yet
Three anchors for setting your first SaaS price without market data: substitute spend, value created, and the incumbent's number. Plus why the price you can change beats the price that's optimal today.
The vendor checklist I wish I had before my first ten LTD purchases
The ten questions worth answering before you spend a cent on a lifetime deal, from a founder's track record to how you get your data out if the vendor disappears.
WordPress Lifetime Plugins That Actually Keep Getting Updates
Abandoned plugins are WordPress's base rate, not a fringe risk. Here's a five-minute check for the ones still shipping fixes, and the live GrabLTD deals that pass it.
Ahrefs Alternatives: Lifetime SEO Tools That Hold Up
Ahrefs is brilliant and expensive. Here's which SEO jobs lifetime tools genuinely cover, which they don't, and how to split your stack to keep the difference in your runway.
Solo SaaS: the founder-led product business in 2026
A solo SaaS is a product one person builds, sells, and supports. Here's why the model finally works in 2026, the realistic revenue and churn numbers behind it, and the lifetime-tooling stack that keeps a founder's costs flat.
Copywriting tools for founders who hate writing
AI copywriting tools only save time if you can already tell good copy from filler. Where they help, where they quietly fail, and the lifetime deals worth buying.
Refund Windows on AppSumo, PitchGround, Dealify, SaaSMantra — What's Actually Guaranteed
AppSumo, PitchGround, and SaaSMantra default to 60-day refunds; Dealify gives 30 unless you pay for Plus. Here's what each window actually covers before you buy.
How to Evaluate SaaS Alternatives: A Framework That Beats Spec Sheets
A spec sheet measures what a tool can do, not whether it fits you. Here is a five-axis framework for evaluating SaaS alternatives that ignores feature counts.
Content marketing for SaaS — a workflow that survives one person
Most founder blogs die by month three because the workflow assumes a team. Here's a content system built for one person that survives the busy weeks.
HubSpot Alternatives That Don't Require an Enterprise Sale
HubSpot's free CRM is generous until the price cliff hits around month six. Here's how to cover CRM, email, and automation with lifetime tools instead.
The Automation Stack: Connecting Your LTD Tools Without a Developer
Your lifetime tools are worth more when they talk to each other. Here's how to connect them with a one-time automation deal, no developer required.
How to Budget Your First 12 Months as a Solo Founder
A first-year budget built around how a solo founder's year actually behaves: seven buckets, three example budgets, and the one ratio most founders get backwards.
Email tools for SaaS, compared — and why Encharge keeps winning
Five email tools that call themselves the same thing but do different jobs. Kit, ActiveCampaign, Customer.io, Mailchimp, and the one I keep recommending to SaaS founders: Encharge.