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Managing a portfolio of AI micro-products is operationally complex

An indie hacker reflects on the unsexy operational reality of running multiple small AI products, including context-switching, customer support fragmentation, and maintenance overhead. The challenge goes beyond building features to managing cross-product complexity at small scale.

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