Indie Hacker Playbooks

AI Coding & Agents

Structure agent workspaces, briefs, campaign tickets, feedback loops and approval boundaries

AI agents can extend a solo builder's operating capacity only when context, decisions and write authority are visible. Begin with one known task, route shared and campaign-specific knowledge into a workspace, then bound each run with a concrete deliverable. Multi-asset campaigns add tickets for dependencies, checks and human decisions, while joined outcome data closes the next planning loop. Promote deterministic repetition into scripts, but keep consequential public writes behind approval and tested code.

Start here

  1. Building a Marketing Agent Workspace — Give one known workflow durable context, work and result locations.
  2. Operating AI Agents with Bounded Briefs — Make each research or production run finite and reviewable.
  3. Orchestrating Agent Campaigns with Tickets — Expose dependencies and parallel work across a campaign.
  4. Guarding Agent Content Publishing with Server-Side Approval — Separate agent judgment from public write authority.

Pages

Team design and operation

Marketing campaign systems

Permission and publishing boundaries

Tools

  • Archify — Agent Skill that turns system descriptions into interactive architecture, workflow, sequence, data-flow or lifecycle diagrams
  • Claude Code — Agent used for scheduled research, SEO extraction and a visually checked web build
  • Cursor — AI code editor used for an app MVP and a local markdown skill graph
  • Rork — AI app builder used to generate a mobile MVP from references and prompts
  • Shipper — AI app builder briefed with a researched user journey and visual references
  • Fluent Korean — Output-style plugin for natural Korean responses from Claude Code

Gaps

  • Cost and reliability comparisons between persistent agent rosters and discrete scheduled jobs
  • Measured comparisons of folder-based campaign workspaces, databases and single-conversation workflows
  • Attribution completeness, freshness failures and decision quality in agent-read marketing data layers
  • Ticket overhead, parallel throughput and cross-asset consistency across multi-agent campaigns
  • Incident rates, reviewer time and rollback performance for approval-gated agent writes
  • Permission boundaries and audit logs for agents connected to email and private company documents
  • Measured stopping rules for open-ended research when the candidate set is unknown
  • Output-quality, export, ownership and App Store acceptance comparisons for AI app builders

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