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Four focused micro-SaaS products targeting remote workers and nomads: an AI-powered nomad visa checker, a cost-of-living comparison tool with AI summaries, a coworking space finder with natural language search, and a freelance rate calculator with market benchmarking.

• — Build in public from day one — your first 200 users come from Twitter followers watching you build
• — One tool, one problem, one price. No pricing tiers, no enterprise plans, no sales calls
• — Claude API is so cheap that AI features are now table stakes, not premium features

Integrated Claude-powered AI writing assistance into ShipFast, his Next.js boilerplate for indie hackers. The AI feature generates landing page copy, email sequences, and changelog entries in the developer's brand voice. Added as an optional module, not a forced upsell.

• — Selling to developers means technical credibility first, then marketing
• — One-time pricing outperforms subscriptions for bootstrapped tools — less churn anxiety, faster word-of-mouth
• — The Claude API cost is so low it's basically a rounding error — don't overthink AI pricing