Learn how to build and run SaaS in the agentic era with AI agents, open-source software, lean systems, and control over your data, infrastructure, and distribution.
Your SaaS stack usually gets bloated one reasonable decision at a time.
Support gets messy, so you add another helpdesk seat. Reporting gets annoying, so you add another dashboard. Research takes time, so you add another tool. Ops gets scattered, so you add another automation app.
None of these decisions look stupid on their own.
But after a while, the business has 40 tabs, 12 pricing pages, and data spread across too many places.
AI changes the calculation a bit.
You can keep the core stack small:
Database. Payments. Support inbox. Publishing system. Analytics.
Then let agents do the work around it:
→ read tickets → check metrics → pull context → draft replies → find patterns → prepare the first version
The founder still approves, rejects, changes direction, and makes the final call.
But you don't need to buy another SaaS product every time a workflow gets annoying.
AI agents are long crossing into work I used to hire people for.
Not strategy, taste, or big decisions - but the boring SaaS workflows that repeat every week: support, churn, monitoring, content, research, feedback, bugs, and docs.
Here are 8 I would never have a human do again 👇
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Two of these are tools we offer. FeedHive, for social media automation. Aidbase, for AI chat and support. +2 other tools.
All available for a one-time purchase. Have a look: www.founderstack.pro
Making YouTube videos fully agentic is such a sick experience now.
DaVinci Resolve and Fusion handle the edit. Remotion and Blender handle motion and 3D. GPT Image 2.5 handles visual generation. Then agents coordinate research, scripts, thumbnails, and publishing around it.
Man, you can make some cool videos with this setup.
I still come up with the ideas and record the footage. But I can now produce the kind of videos that would have needed an entire production team a few years ago.
Most SaaS advice assumes growth means hiring more humans.
AI makes that advice look old.
A lot of the classic founder advice came from a world where every bottleneck eventually turned into another person, another manager, another meeting, or another tool.
That is changing fast.
Here are 8 SaaS beliefs AI is killing 👇
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Pick up 4 SaaS tools for a single one-time purchase and replace your expensive subscriptions.
Every time I recommend self-hosted tools, people ask where they should rent the hardware.
For learning, testing, or running small, lightweight services - I recommend a small VPS.
The annoying part is that the price changes a lot by region. Storage, IPv4, bandwidth, taxes, and annual commitments can make the headline number pretty useless.
I went through the current starter plans and picked nine options with at least 2GB RAM, storage, and public IPv4.
I never managed to find a good editor. It's one of the few roles I always struggled hiring for, so I ended up editing every single video myself - for years.
Today, AI agents finally got good enough. They help with the research, scripting, editing, thumbnails, and publishing.
It's still my ideas. And I still record the video. But everything around it is handled by a mix of agents, software, and a few approval points before anything goes out.
This is how my agentic YouTube team makes a video 👇
Most AI agents are given a list of tasks to complete overnight.
I'd also give mine a list of things to check.
Revenue can drop. Payments fail. Customers cancel. Errors pile up. Support gets angry. Deploys break. Approvals wait until someone notices them.
All of that data already exists across Stripe, logs, support, deployments, and product dashboards. An overnight agent can collect it, group related events, and give you one short report before the workday starts.
Simon Høiberg
Your SaaS stack usually gets bloated one reasonable decision at a time.
Support gets messy, so you add another helpdesk seat. Reporting gets annoying, so you add another dashboard. Research takes time, so you add another tool. Ops gets scattered, so you add another automation app.
None of these decisions look stupid on their own.
But after a while, the business has 40 tabs, 12 pricing pages, and data spread across too many places.
AI changes the calculation a bit.
You can keep the core stack small:
Database.
Payments.
Support inbox.
Publishing system.
Analytics.
Then let agents do the work around it:
→ read tickets
→ check metrics
→ pull context
→ draft replies
→ find patterns
→ prepare the first version
The founder still approves, rejects, changes direction, and makes the final call.
But you don't need to buy another SaaS product every time a workflow gets annoying.
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Simon Høiberg
AI agents are long crossing into work I used to hire people for.
Not strategy, taste, or big decisions - but the boring SaaS workflows that repeat every week: support, churn, monitoring, content, research, feedback, bugs, and docs.
Here are 8 I would never have a human do again 👇
---
Two of these are tools we offer.
FeedHive, for social media automation.
Aidbase, for AI chat and support.
+2 other tools.
All available for a one-time purchase.
Have a look: www.founderstack.pro
5 days ago | [YT] | 125
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Simon Høiberg
Making YouTube videos fully agentic is such a sick experience now.
DaVinci Resolve and Fusion handle the edit. Remotion and Blender handle motion and 3D. GPT Image 2.5 handles visual generation. Then agents coordinate research, scripts, thumbnails, and publishing around it.
Man, you can make some cool videos with this setup.
I still come up with the ideas and record the footage. But I can now produce the kind of videos that would have needed an entire production team a few years ago.
My full YouTube production stack is below 👇
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Simon Høiberg
Most SaaS advice assumes growth means hiring more humans.
AI makes that advice look old.
A lot of the classic founder advice came from a world where every bottleneck eventually turned into another person, another manager, another meeting, or another tool.
That is changing fast.
Here are 8 SaaS beliefs AI is killing 👇
---
Pick up 4 SaaS tools for a single one-time purchase and replace your expensive subscriptions.
On FounderStack:
👉 www.founderstack.pro/
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Simon Høiberg
Every time I recommend self-hosted tools, people ask where they should rent the hardware.
For learning, testing, or running small, lightweight services - I recommend a small VPS.
The annoying part is that the price changes a lot by region. Storage, IPv4, bandwidth, taxes, and annual commitments can make the headline number pretty useless.
I went through the current starter plans and picked nine options with at least 2GB RAM, storage, and public IPv4.
Europe:
• Netcup - €5.72/month + setup
• OVHcloud - $5.35/month
• Hetzner - €11.99/month
US:
• RamNode - $5/month
• AtlanticNet - $8/month
• DigitalOcean - $12/month
Asia:
• BinaryLane Singapore - A$9.80/720 hours
• Vultr Tokyo - $10/month
• Linode Mumbai - $12/month
Before buying or renting hardware, I'd start here 👇
2 weeks ago | [YT] | 113
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Simon Høiberg
Subscription creep IS a thing.
You need +7 subscriptions just to get STARTED with your new business.
Ridiculous.
And frankly... unnecessary.
There are so many great, alternative options to traditional software subscriptions.
- Free and Open-Source
- Self-hostable
- One-time licenses
Here are 8 tools you can get right now 👇
Zero subscriptions, zero ongoing costs.
---
Two of these are tools we offer.
FeedHive, for social media automation.
Aidbase, for AI chat and support.
+2 other tools.
All available for a one-time purchase.
Have a look: www.founderstack.pro
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Simon Høiberg
My boring self-hosted tech stack.
(93% cheaper than the cloud)
🔴 Platform
Hetzner
Kubernetes
Docker
🔵 Application
Next.js
Node.js
🟣 Security
WireGuard
Better Auth
🟢 Data
Postgres
pgvector
Redis
MinIO
🟠 Observability
Grafana
Prometheus
People acting like you need +10 managed platforms to run a SaaS company.
You really don't.
The software is free and open source, and this stack runs a 7-figure SaaS business perfectly well.
3 weeks ago | [YT] | 214
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Simon Høiberg
I never managed to find a good editor.
It's one of the few roles I always struggled hiring for, so I ended up editing every single video myself - for years.
Today, AI agents finally got good enough. They help with the research, scripting, editing, thumbnails, and publishing.
It's still my ideas. And I still record the video. But everything around it is handled by a mix of agents, software, and a few approval points before anything goes out.
This is how my agentic YouTube team makes a video 👇
3 weeks ago | [YT] | 172
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Simon Høiberg
Most founders hire way too early.
They repeat the same messy process twice and start writing a job description.
Then come the handoffs, meetings, management, and another salary before anyone has even documented how the work should be done.
Insane.
Before I hire another employee, I want the repeatable parts handled from attention to reporting.
These are the 7 systems I'd build first 👇
1 month ago | [YT] | 166
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Simon Høiberg
Most AI agents are given a list of tasks to complete overnight.
I'd also give mine a list of things to check.
Revenue can drop. Payments fail. Customers cancel. Errors pile up. Support gets angry. Deploys break. Approvals wait until someone notices them.
All of that data already exists across Stripe, logs, support, deployments, and product dashboards. An overnight agent can collect it, group related events, and give you one short report before the workday starts.
These are the 7 checks I'd run every night 👇
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