Developing solo with AI: what to entrust to outside services, and what not to hold

1Key Takeaways

• Summary Billing, login, and receiving contact messages: I handed all of them off to outside services.
• For membership and billing, the only things I keep in my own database are a mapping of who is a member of which plan, and a copy of the subscription and purchase state.
• I keep that copy because if the site went to the payment service to check the subscription state every time a reader opens a paid article, the display would get slow.
• When you develop together with AI, the implementation itself….