# LeverSolo

> LeverSolo (leversolo.com) publishes practical AI and automation workflows for solo online builders: people who run an affiliate or content business alone and grow it with free traffic. Each guide says which tool fits which stage, what it costs (prices checked on the vendor's own page and dated), and when not to buy yet. Every article is labelled "hands-on" or "researched".

## Guides

- [Catch Dead Affiliate Links Before They Cost You Sales](https://leversolo.com/posts/affiliate-link-checker-automation/): Build a monthly affiliate link checker in Make, n8n, or a free script: status codes, redirect chains, false positives, and a spec you can copy.
- [Validate a Micro-Niche With AI Research: 6 Steps Before You Commit](https://leversolo.com/posts/ai-research-workflow-validate-micro-niche/): A 6-step way to test a micro-niche before you build: set pass/fail thresholds, read buying-intent SERPs, make AI work from evidence, check every number.
- [Which AI Tools Pay Affiliates in 2026? We Checked Each One](https://leversolo.com/posts/ai-tools-affiliate-programs-2026/): Which AI tools pay affiliates in 2026? Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini pay publishers nothing. Eight programs that do pay, checked on their own terms pages.
- [Do You Still Need Make or n8n If AI Can Write the Script?](https://leversolo.com/posts/code-it-yourself-vs-make-n8n/): Make, n8n, or an AI-written script on a GitHub Actions or Cloudflare Workers cron: costs, limits, upkeep, and a pricing-page monitor to copy.
- [Watch Competitor and Vendor Pricing Pages Automatically](https://leversolo.com/posts/competitor-pricing-page-monitor/): Build a weekly pricing page monitor in Make, n8n, or a script: extract the prices, compare snapshots, handle JavaScript pages, get a diff alert.
- [How to Automate Faceless Short-Form Video Without the Slop](https://leversolo.com/posts/faceless-short-form-video-workflow/): Three ways to make Shorts, Reels, and TikToks from your articles, from a 60-minute manual routine to a pipeline that renders while you sleep.
- [An AI Content System for Solo Sites That Earns Search Traffic](https://leversolo.com/posts/free-traffic-ai-content-system/): How to use AI to research, outline, and edit articles that rank and get cited: a brief template, a critic prompt, a pre-publish checklist, a refresh loop.
- [How to Get Your Articles Cited in AI Overviews and ChatGPT](https://leversolo.com/posts/get-cited-ai-overviews-chatgpt/): A workflow for small sites to get cited in AI Overviews and ChatGPT: what Google says, crawler access, answer-first writing, and a monthly check.
- [Make vs n8n for Solo Builders: Which Fits Your Stage](https://leversolo.com/posts/make-vs-n8n-solo-automation/): Make bills per action, n8n per workflow run. The math, three real solo workflows priced out, what self-hosting costs, and which tool to start with.
- [Turn Every New Post Into Social Drafts You Approve](https://leversolo.com/posts/new-post-to-social-drafts-automation/): Build a Make or n8n pipeline that turns each new blog post into X, LinkedIn, group-post and video-script drafts you approve before anything goes live.
- [One AI Subscription Is Enough to Start: How to Pick It](https://leversolo.com/posts/one-ai-subscription-solo-builder/): Which AI subscription should a solo builder pay for first? ChatGPT, Claude or Google AI matched to your work, what each includes, and free fixes for gaps.
- [Search Console for a Brand-New Site: The First 30 Days](https://leversolo.com/posts/search-console-new-site-first-30-days/): A day-by-day Search Console plan for a new site: Domain property, sitemap, URL Inspection, indexing statuses, Bing import, and the first queries to watch.
- [Self-Host n8n on a $6 Server Without Regretting It](https://leversolo.com/posts/self-host-n8n-checklist/): Checklist to self-host n8n Community edition: droplet size, Docker Compose, HTTPS, encryption key backups, safe updates, and when to pay for Cloud.
- [Sora Has Shut Down: What Faceless Video Creators Use Now](https://leversolo.com/posts/sora-shutdown-faceless-video-alternatives/): OpenAI closed the Sora app on April 26, 2026 and removed the Sora API on September 24. What it broke for faceless creators, and three routes to switch to.
- [How LeverSolo Runs on Astro and Cloudflare for $0 Hosting](https://leversolo.com/posts/zero-dollar-static-site-astro-cloudflare/): The static stack behind leversolo.com, the guardrails that let a non-developer build it with AI coding tools, and two mistakes those guardrails caught.

## Pillars

- [AI Research Workflow](https://leversolo.com/pillars/ai-research-workflow/)
- [AI for Content & SEO](https://leversolo.com/pillars/ai-content-seo/)
- [Automation Workflows](https://leversolo.com/pillars/automation-workflows/)
- [AI Video & Audio Production](https://leversolo.com/pillars/ai-video-audio/)
- [AI-Assisted Website Building](https://leversolo.com/pillars/ai-assisted-website-building/)

## About

- [Methodology](https://leversolo.com/methodology/): how tools are judged.
- [Affiliate disclosure](https://leversolo.com/affiliate-disclosure/): how LeverSolo earns money; tools without an affiliate program get plain links.
- [About](https://leversolo.com/about/)