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The stack.

Chosen for one property above all: near-zero marginal cost. Three businesses run on this for less than most companies spend on coffee.

// web platform

  • Cloudflare Workers / Pages / KV / D1 / R2 — everything deploys here
  • Astro, Next.js (via OpenNext), SvelteKit — picked per project
  • Supabase — Postgres + Auth + RLS, source of truth everywhere
  • Tailwind CSS v4

// ai

  • Claude — judgment work: strategy, proposals, agent reasoning
  • DeepSeek — production work: categorization, drafts, high-volume text
  • Gemini — image generation for product mockups
  • MCP servers — Airtable, Slack, Gmail, Notion, Supabase, Stripe

// automation

  • cron + launchd on a Mac mini — 21 scheduled agent jobs
  • n8n (self-hosted) — visual workflows and integrations
  • GitHub Actions — CI/CD and scheduled ingestion
  • Airtable — agent decision logs and approval queues
  • Slack — where agents report and I approve

// business apis

  • Google Ads API, GA4, Search Console
  • Shopify Admin/GraphQL, Etsy, Faire
  • Stripe, Resend (transactional), Brevo (broadcast), Twilio (SMS escalation)
  • Sentry + UptimeRobot — every production system is monitored

// homelab

  • Mac mini — agent runner
  • Hostinger VPS — SEO agent + watchdogs
  • Synology DS220+ — storage, VPN-locked services with a kill switch