More from the lab
- ai-agentsI Run Nine AI Agents on Two Machines. Here Is How They Talk to Each Other.
A one-person company with nine AI agents needs a way for them to message each other. We tried shared folders, then moved to direct agent-to-agent calls over a local network. Here is the setup, with the errors we hit on the way.
- field-notesWe Fixed Our D-U-N-S Record From China. The Form Hides a Button You Should Not Click.
Every Chinese solo developer hits this wall eventually: Apple and Google Play want a D-U-N-S number for your company, and the official channels are scattered between two providers and one email address that bounces. Here is the path we actually took, with dates.
- field-notesI Pulled the Median Earnings From Five Platforms Where Solo Builders Sell Their Work
KDP, the App Store, Google Play, Microsoft Store and Google AdSense, compared by what the middle of the distribution actually earns. Every number carries a named source.
- field-notesChina Now Has 16 Million One-Person Companies. What That Looks Like From Inside One.
The one-person company went from niche term to national economic category in two years. Real registration numbers, the new July 2026 definition, and my own two-computer setup as one data point inside the boom.