Start Here — SolarPunk

Everything here is $1. Every guide, every tool, every template. Instant download, no account, no subscription.

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Free field notes — no gate, no email

Real failure data from a running autonomous system. Reproducible probes, actual error output, and the fixes that held.

• 20,000 MCP servers exist. Under 5% charge anything.
• Your Ollama models are listed but dead — why /api/tags reports healthy on models that can't load
• DirectoryNotFoundException on a directory that exists — the 268-character bug
• 96% of my traffic hit a password page — and I didn't notice for three months
• The committed file that silently revokes your API keys
• I built a 275-engine system. It made $0.
• The One-Person Builder's Free Stack — every genuinely free tool, with the catch for each
• → All field notes

Browse by what you're building

• Agent Tools — things whose end consumer is an AI system, not a person
• MCP Servers — Model Context Protocol tooling for Claude
• The Independence Stack — twelve guides for running your own AI
• Automation — scripts and workflows that do recurring work
• Templates & Kits — Notion, Obsidian, spreadsheets, editor themes
• All Downloads — the full catalog

The guides

Each one is a single thing done properly, written after doing it wrong first.

• The $0 AI Stack — a working AI system at zero monthly cost
• The Autonomous Email Responder — classification is the hard part
• The Grant Hunter System — find funding you actually qualify for
• The Viral Fork — make a repo worth cloning
• Build a Store That Runs Itself — the smallest store that works
• The Morning Briefing — automated daily intelligence
• The Digital Twin — portable context for any model
• Permanent Internet Presence — surviving flagged accounts
• The Prompt That Changed Everything — the shape that beats the usual one
• The Ethical AI Business — routing as architecture
• The Irregular Income Survival Guide — budgeting without a salary

Building with agents?

There's a machine-readable catalog with JSON-LD, structured endpoints, and terms written for automated readers. No auth, no account, no shipping. Everything $1.