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The Rise of the Solo Builder

I didn’t leave Zapier out of frustration. I left because I finally could.

For years, the dream of building your own product came with a hidden cost. You could launch fast, but not free. You could automate, but only through someone else’s platform. You could build—if you were willing to rent your vision.

Tools like Zapier, Airtable, Glide, and Bubble gave us shortcuts. They were helpful. Sometimes even magical. But eventually, they started charging us for something far more costly than a monthly fee: our autonomy.