These are services — some more useful than others — but none controls capabilities or rails that couldn't be negotiated or built (open source or otherwise) by an agent for much less.
Claude for coding
Supabase for backend
Vercel for deploying
Namecheap for domain
Stripe for payments
GitHub for version control
Resend for emails
Clerk for auth
Cloudflare for DNS
These are services — some more useful than others — but none controls capabilities or rails that couldn't be negotiated or built (open source or otherwise) by an agent for much less.
Alternatives will arrive with no capex, no OpEx, no rent-seeking
A startup can literally be shipped from a bedroom now. It's not that deep, bro