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The 'sleep-through-the-night' ops stack: 5 plug-and-play automation kits for solo devs

Every solo dev eventually hits the same wall: the product works, but you are the infrastructure. Pager in hand, terminal open at 2am, one eye on Grafana.

I spent months compressing the fix into repeatable kits. Here's the stack, top to bottom, each one deployable in under an hour.

1. The 24/7 agent operations layer
The core idea: stop watching dashboards, let agents watch them. Agent Ops 24/7 is the playbook I use to run autonomous agents that monitor, alert, and self-heal — with human escalation only when it actually matters.

2. Incident response you can execute half-asleep
At 3am you don't want to think. Custom Incident Runbook (done-for-you) is built around your actual stack, so step one is never "figure out what's broken".

3. The starter kit that pays for itself in one avoided outage
Ops Starter Kit — runbooks, checklists, and monitors for the four failure modes that cause most 2am pages.

4. Automation for everything you do twice
Automation Starter Pack — the scripts that turned my recurring ops chores into cron entries.

5. When you want all of it
Ops Mega Bundle — the whole library, priced like one kit.

The principle behind all five: if an on-call brain has to make a decision, that's a bug in your ops. Write the decision down once, automate it, and let the system page a human only for genuinely novel failures.

Full catalog walkthrough and free ops notes: hive80-lab.github.io/ops-notes

What's your 2am war story? Drop it in the comments — the worst one gets a free runbook rewrite.

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