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7/13/2026
Building Pactiamo solo and 5 decisions I am glad I made

Building Pactiamo solo and 5 decisions I am glad I made

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A solo founder shares five key decisions behind Pactiamo, a tool that collapses freelance proposals, contracts, signatures, and payments into a single link. The decisions include requiring zero client accounts, never touching payments to avoid KYC complexity, using Postgres for everything including job queues, building internationalization from day one, and using a structured chat-patch-full-document AI protocol instead of a freeform chat box. The post offers practical architectural and business-model tradeoffs for indie SaaS builders.

  • •Zero client accounts and server-rendered pages minimize deal friction
  • •Avoiding merchant-of-record model keeps codebase and trust model simple
  • •AI drafting uses deterministic patch-based diffs rather than freeform text regeneration

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