One-Person Business: AI Tools, SEO, and Automation
One-Person Business Practical notes on the systems, tools, and trade-offs behind a one-person business. I am documenting what I actually use.
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Llm-Api 154
Ai-Relay 153
Alipay 117
Wechat-Pay 117
Uptime 113
Latency 91
Model-Comparison 64
Claude 54
Api-Pricing 34
Privacy 13
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The Solo Business Tool Payback Rule: When $20/Month Software Actually Pays for Itself
A cash-payback rule for Cursor, Claude Code, Runway, and solo-business software: bill it, replace a cost, or ship before renewal.
Client Acquisition Workflow Automation: Stop Losing Leads Manually
A lean lead-follow-up workflow for one-person businesses: capture, qualify, follow up, and hand off without buying a full CRM too early.
Founder Lessons from One-Person Businesses and Experiments
Founder Retrospectives What worked, what failed, how much it cost, and what changed afterward. These are account-style retrospectives with clear.
SEO for One-Person Businesses: What to Build First and What to Ignore
A task-first SEO plan for one-person businesses: choose the first commercial page, build a small topic cluster, measure qualified demand, and avoid empty publishing.
One-Person Business Subscriptions 2026: Which to Keep, Downgrade, or Kill
Eight solo-founder subscriptions, every price read from the vendor's own page. $201.99/mo of default drift cut to $30 — plus the stop-loss rule that decides each one.
About Hu Qian: Solo × AI Business Notebook
Hu Qian is an independent publication about running a one-person business: software costs, tool choices, and practical workflows, with a focus on recurring expenses, limitations, …