A practitioner blog by Ravi · solo founder
Solo founder.
Three AI SaaS shipped.
Here’s how.
I ship production AI products solo — an OpenAI-compatible gateway, an AI-search visibility platform, and an Indian compliance marketplace. This blog is the playbook: tool reviews, infra deep-dives, and case studies from someone actually building, not theorizing.
What I write about
All posts →AI Coding Tools
Reviews and comparisons of Cursor, Claude Code, Windsurf, Antigravity, Copilot, and the rest — from someone actually shipping with them.
LLM Infrastructure
AI gateways, caching, model routing, observability, edge replication. Practitioner deep-dives from building Prism.
LLM FinOps
AI spend management as a discipline. Cost attribution, governance, optimization patterns, Indian tax structure on AI spend.
GEO (AI Search)
How ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Google AI Overview actually index and cite content. From building Citare.
Stack & Ops
Supabase, Vercel, Cloudflare, Redis, Upstash — the production stack for shipping AI SaaS solo.
Essays
Personal notes, manifestos, lessons learned. Meta-content about the work itself.
Latest
See all posts →Claude Desktop vs Antigravity 2026: Why I Moved Back
An honest comparison of the Claude Desktop App and Antigravity. Why I dropped my $100/mo Claude habit for a $20/mo Gemini setup to ship AI SaaS solo.
Gemini Thinking Levels: Deciphering the New $200/mo AI Agentic Tax
Google's 2026 pricing shift ends flat-rate AI. I analyze the new 'Thinking Levels' and why the $200/mo Deep Think tier is the first real agentic tax.
The 'Steal Your Competitor's SEO With AI' Trick, Tested
A viral tweet says you can steal any competitor's SEO strategy in 5 minutes with AI and their sitemap. I ran it on a real rival. Here's what it actually misses.
AI Cost Allocation: Models That Work in Indian Production
AI cost allocation explained: showback vs chargeback, dimension models that actually scale, IAM tag enforcement, and the Indian TP and Ind AS 108 overlays.
The 2026 AI Spend Disclosure Audit: 46 Companies Graded
We scored 46 public companies on how well they actually disclose AI spend in filings. Only 2 cleared a 'Solid' bar. Apple and Amazon disclose nothing specific.
Section 195 TDS on Foreign AI Vendors: Complete India Guide
Section 195 TDS mechanics on OpenAI, Anthropic, AWS Bedrock payments. Engineering Analysis SC, DTAA rates, Form 15CA/15CB workflow, IT Act 2025 transition.
AI Vendor Consolidation in 2026: When to Cut, When to Hold
AI vendor consolidation explained: why 68% of CIOs prioritise it, the trade-offs nobody talks about, and the Indian tax overlay that changes the math.