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Solo Developer Stack
The tools a solo developer reaches for daily: from code completion and deployment to backend infrastructure and AI-assisted debugging.
Our Take
Built for one person shipping production code without a team behind them, not a team splitting work across specialists. Cursor and Copilot overlap on inline completion, so the actual reason to run both is Cursor's multi-file agent mode for bigger refactors and Copilot's ecosystem familiarity for quick fixes, most solo developers will lean on one more than the other within a few weeks. Supabase and v0 cover the backend-and-frontend-scaffolding gap that pure code-completion tools leave open.
True Cost & Exit
What this stack really costs to run, and how you'd leave it.
Monthly cost
from $105/mo (all core tiers)
Lean alternative
GitHub Copilot alone ($10/mo Pro) covers inline completion for most day-to-day coding; add Cursor only once you need its multi-file agent mode for larger refactors.
Exit path
Your application data lives in Supabase's Postgres database, which supports a standard pg_dump export at any tier; your code lives in your own git repository regardless of which editor or completion tool wrote it, so switching Cursor or Copilot carries zero lock-in risk.
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