How I Run a Dozen Small Web Apps by Myself
The tooling and habits that let one person keep many sites alive - and why that's the real leverage under everything else.
The honest secret isn’t working harder on each site. It’s that they’re not really separate sites - they’re one set of patterns, reused.
What makes it possible
- One stack, learned deeply. The same handful of tools everywhere, so nothing is a fresh puzzle.
- Templates over blank pages. A new site starts from the last one, not from zero.
- Automation for the boring parts. Backups, deploys, monitoring - set once, forgotten.
- Ruthless sameness. Every project that drifts from the pattern costs you later.
The point
Leverage isn’t doing more. It’s building something once and reusing it until it’s free.
How this overlaps: the same tooling that runs these apps also runs the scheduling behind the service business and the site you’re reading right now. One skill, many lanes.
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