Mission Status
You are not reading a content site. You are reading someone’s operating manual.
CtrlAltWealth is a field-tested stack for building and shipping ideas with as little overhead as possible. Every tool, pattern, and workflow here comes from actually running projects—not from spec sheets or sponsored reviews.
If it’s listed here, it’s because we trust it with our own money, code, and reputation.
The Signal
Most “best tool” lists are noise. They’re written to hit SEO keywords, not to survive production incidents.
CtrlAltWealth is different by design:
- No generic reviews. If we haven’t shipped with it, we don’t write about it.
- No vendor-speak. Only what it actually feels like to use something at 2 a.m. when production is on fire.
- No maximalism. Fewer tools, deeply understood, used hard.
This is a living document. When we find something better, we swap it in and explain why.
The Criteria
We don’t care about hype, VC narratives, or what’s trending on X. We filter for three things:
- Utility – Does it make a specific, painful problem go away?
- Speed – Can a single person get it live in minutes or hours, not weeks?
- Leverage – Does it let one operator do the work of a small team without falling apart?
If a tool fails any of these under real load, it doesn’t stay in the stack.
The Model
We believe in open playbooks and sustainable economics.
We don’t sell courses.
We don’t gate a Discord behind a paywall.
We don’t take money to “consider” tools.
Instead, we use clean affiliate links to the tools we already rely on. When you adopt something we recommend, the vendor pays a small commission. It costs you nothing and keeps this library free, independent, and always in active use.
No tool gets a spot here because it pays. It pays because it earned the spot.
Who We Are
We are builders first, writers second.
We care about:
- shipping over polishing
- systems over hacks
- reality over theory
This site started as an internal doc: how we actually ship with AI tools, infra, and a small footprint. We made it public for one reason:
If you’re trying to build and ship with a lean, modern stack, this is the manual we wish we had when we started.
Use what’s useful. Ignore the rest. Then go ship.
CtrlAltWealth