About
I’m Lakshmi. Principal SRE by day. Building SaaS products on the side, solo, using Claude Code as my primary leverage.
The newsletter is called Zero to SaaS. It’s about the three things nobody tells you when you decide to ship products without a team: how to build fast, how to keep it running in production, and how to get people to actually find it.
Build. Deploy. Distribute. Everything I write fits into one of those three buckets.
What I’m building
Stacksweller — Substack scheduling and analytics. 50+ paying customers, $1K MRR. The goal is to become the Ahrefs of Substack.
Supabyoi — Self-hosted Supabase on your own VPS. $25/month flat. You bring the server, I handle the ops.
ThreadHQ — Your next customer is on Reddit right now. ThreadHQ finds which thread. Beta ATM. DM me for access.
The setup
I’ve been in software for close to two decades — C++ to distributed systems to production incidents at 2am. I know how the sausage gets made.
The side projects fund the experiments. The content documents what actually works. Claude Code does the heavy lifting I used to do myself.
New here?
Start with the Start Here page — it’s the fastest way to find what’s relevant to you.
Or jump straight to the most-read posts:
Find me at lakshminp.com or on LinkedIn.
