I Ditched My 12-App SaaS Stack for a Single AI Desktop Workspace — Here's the Technical Breakdown

There's a particular kind of fatigue that hits you around month 18 of running a solo dev consultancy. It's not burnout from coding. It's the meta-work — the invisible scaffolding of tools you've assembled to do the work. I had Notion for docs, Linear for tasks, Superhuman for email, Zapier automations talking to five different APIs, a custom Python script that scraped client data every morning, and approximately four browser windows open at any given moment just to context-switch between roles.