EP01 · VBlogMarch 19, 20263 min read
The $250/mo Stack That Replaced 20 Roles
$250
per month to run a full dev agency
Source: Altiora internal stack audit, March 2026
THE MISTAKE
Paying for headcount instead of output
Traditional agencies charge $15-28K/mo for a team of 10. Most of that pays for coordination overhead — meetings, handoffs, status updates — not code.
THE FIX
Claude Max — the brain behind design review, code, docs, QA ($200/mo)
Apify Starter — lead gen runs 24/7 while I sleep ($29/mo)
Resend — transactional emails + cold outreach ($20/mo)
Cursor, Vercel, Supabase, GitHub — all free tier ($0)
This is what $250/mo builds.
Same output as a $28K/mo agency. 99.1% cost reduction. Book a call to see how we can build yours.
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