Solopreneur toolkit

"On the very first day of going solo, I set up an email newsletter to build an audience that I truly own. Beehiiv has grown and matured immensely over the past year and really helped me to rediscover the joy of writing - which I felt I had somewhat lost after blogging on WordPress for over a decade." - Jukka Niiranen

"Built my company's website to introduce who I am and what I offer. Squarespace is not too techy and allowed me to get the content out in a stylish way without drawing me into the details." - Jukka Niiranen

"Whether it's quick visualization for social posts or more nuanced graphics to deliver in newsletter articles and customer presentations, Canva covers it all for me. There's no reason to make every screenshot and illustration a bit better - a bit more YOU, when a tool like this is in your kit." - Jukka Niiranen

"How to get from online chats into real one-to-one meetings? Calendly lowers the barrier of setting up a call immensely. My availability is visible to those who want to talk with me. They also have the option to immediately sign-up for a paid hour of advisory work. It just HAS to be that simple for this to workk." - Jukka Niiranen

"LinkedIn is my most important social channel for business context. Yet its analytics and search are just terrible. SHIELD fixes all of this and makes you feel like you're in control of your social media content, metrics and engagements." - Jukka Niiranen

"I love and loathe AI. Yet I couldn't work solo without an AI assistant like this that I can assign to do quick research on new topics that I'm not familiar with. Deep Research cuts down the time for aimless searching and browsing and helps me narrow down the information sources that are worth human attention. It's also a highly useful virtual buddy for reflecting on things that come at you when working solo on your business. " - Jukka Niiranen

"The operating system of my business is built as a Power App. Customer details, communications, deals, projects, hour tracking, invoices - I've configured it all to run exactly the way I need to. That's the magic of low-code and Power Apps combined with Microsoft Dataverse is the most robust kit out there. It will scale as far as you'll ever need to grow!" - Jukka Niiranen

"Need to spin up a website for illustrating your ideas? Want to see how an app would look like for [insert topic]? Prompting Lovable to draft a live, working application with AI while you do other related planning work on a second monitor makes you feel like you're working with a virtual developer team." - Jukka Niiranen

"If your AI generates a useful site, how can you take it to production with minimal costs? Hetzner VPS gives you an incredibly affordable way to have multiple sites and domains on a trusted web server." - Jukka Niiranen

"Building a SaaS product without having a solid communication mechanism in it is useless. MailerLite offers solid email automation and newsletter tools to tie together with your product's onboarding and nurturing needs." - Jukka Niiranen

"Want to make money from your SaaS product? Stripe is everywhere and everything that's needed to turn a hobby project into a revenue source. Any tool you're looking at, it's going to have a Stripe integration or it's probably not the right choice for you to begin with." - Jukka Niiranen