You do not need a team to run a software company anymore. You need a stack. Here is the six-app toolkit we see behind most profitable one-person products in the vibe economy - one tool per job, and what each layer roughly costs.
The rule: one tool per job, and every tool has to remove a hire, not add a tab.
1.Build - a vibe-coding tool
2.Ship - Vercel
3.Get paid - Stripe
4.Research - Perplexity
5.Run it - Notion
6.Support - a shared inbox
Total damage: under $150 a month to run a company that used to need six people. The constraint stopped being money or headcount. It is taste and hours.
The math
Six tools, roughly $100 to $150 a month, and every one replaces a role a startup used to hire for. That is the real story of the vibe economy: the software company got unbundled from the company. The only thing you cannot outsource to the stack is deciding what to build.
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