Launching My Side Project as a Solo Dev: The Walkthrough
Summary
A detailed solo entrepreneur's walkthrough of turning a Kanji Anki deck into a Kickstarter project, including manufacturing, legal setup, self-hosted infrastructure, pricing, marketing, and post-launch learnings. It highlights practical tech decisions (NixOS, Plausible, Listmonk, Grafana), email deliverability challenges, and the resilience required to launch a hardware-backed digital product as a one-person team.