Vibe-entrepreneurs
20 articles in series
Twenty essays on the infrastructure stack a solo, AI-native founder needs to stand up outside the US — a domain and DNS, free hosting, a US bank card without an SSN, a free Oracle VPS, remote-controlling an AI coding agent from your phone, a Wyoming LLC and EIN, getting cited by AI search engines, and collecting a first payment with Stripe or Paddle. Inspired by mousepotato’s "One-Person Company Handbook" series.
Build a Waitlist Page in 30 Minutes, Zero Servers
A concrete 6-step path from empty folder to a live email-capture page — frontend, backend, and database — deployed worldwide on Cloudflare for $0, before a single line of the real product exists. The fastest way to test if anyone wants the thing.
Deploy Global Infrastructure for Free on Cloudflare
Cloudflare Workers and Pages replace 'rent a VPS and configure nginx' with 'push code, it runs in 335 cities.' Here's why serverless-at-the-edge is a different model, where the free tier ceiling actually sits, and how Pages and Workers are the same primitive.
Keeping Your Free Oracle VPS From Getting Reclaimed
Oracle's free tier has one real string attached: it reclaims idle instances. Here's what 'idle' actually means for a dev box, the keep-alive pattern that works, why community scripts are a fragile bet, and the fix that ends the problem for good.
Oracle's Always-Free Tier: The Server Everyone Forgets
Oracle Cloud quietly gives away a permanent 4-core, 24GB-RAM ARM server that would cost $80-100/month on AWS. Here's why signups get rejected, the region choice you can't undo, and how to actually get the machine.
Your First US Bank Card Without Setting Foot in America
The four-piece kit a non-resident founder needs before a US bank says yes: ITIN, a CMRA-clean address, a US SIM, and a Wise account, plus the card application.
The ITIN Path: A US Tax ID Without a US Address
What an ITIN is, why a Certifying Acceptance Agent beats mailing your passport to the IRS, the 8-12 week timeline, and why it's the first US-entity domino.
Ship a Static Site With Nothing but Git Push
Why GitHub Pages beats Vercel, Netlify, and a VPS for a solo founder's first landing page: zero cost, no third-party login, and the deploy is a git push.
Domain Name to Live DNS in Twenty Minutes
Registrar tradeoffs, why to route DNS through Cloudflare, the DNSSEC gotcha that takes domains offline, and the orange-vs-grey cloud rule for GitHub Pages.