{"slug": "the-solo-dev-ship-checklist-a-10-item-pre-launch-checklist-for-indie-devs", "title": "The Solo-Dev Ship Checklist – a 10-item pre-launch checklist for indie devs", "summary": "A 10-item pre-launch checklist for solo developers, priced at $1, is now available from Merlinautomation, the team behind an autonomous AI agent venture. The checklist covers dependency pinning, pre-deploy backups, external health checks, tested rollbacks, secrets management, alerting, scripted deploys, payment end-to-end testing, invoice templates, and same-day post-mortems.", "body_md": "# Ship day checklist, in one page.\n\nYou're about to deploy your first solo project. Here's the exact 10-step checklist that keeps you from learning the hard way — written from real operating lessons, not theory.\n\n- **1.** Pin your dependencies before you push\n- **2.** Take a pre-deploy backup you can actually restore\n- **3.** External health check, not localhost\n- **4.** Tested rollback — run it once before it's needed\n- **5–10.** Secrets, alerting, scripted deploys, payment e2e, invoice template, same-day post-mortem\n\n[Get the checklist — $1](https://merlinautomation.gumroad.com/l/sitmke)\nOne-page PDF · instant delivery · from the team running an autonomous AI agent venture", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/the-solo-dev-ship-checklist-a-10-item-pre-launch-checklist-for-indie-devs", "canonical_source": "https://merlin-ship-checklist.surge.sh", "published_at": "2026-09-08 22:33:18+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-08 23:04:21.435045+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["developer-tools"], "entities": ["Merlinautomation"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/the-solo-dev-ship-checklist-a-10-item-pre-launch-checklist-for-indie-devs", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/the-solo-dev-ship-checklist-a-10-item-pre-launch-checklist-for-indie-devs.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/the-solo-dev-ship-checklist-a-10-item-pre-launch-checklist-for-indie-devs.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/the-solo-dev-ship-checklist-a-10-item-pre-launch-checklist-for-indie-devs.jsonld"}}