--- type: Web Page title: "Claude Code second brain for indie hackers — Oknola" description: "Your repo has a CLAUDE.md. Your business doesn't. Oknola keeps MRR, costs, launches and customers in plain markdown your agents can read." resource: https://oknola.com/use-cases/indie-hackers/ --- Indie SaaS and digital products # Your code has a CLAUDE.md. Your business doesn't. Oknola keeps the business around your app in plain markdown: MRR next to the API and hosting bills, launches, customers and the decisions behind them. Claude Code, Codex or Cursor can read it before the next prompt. Join the waitlist [See it work](https://oknola.com/demo/full/#as=saas) Sample data. - Built on a real business, not a pitch deck. - **759** notes · **118** ledger records · **73** journal pages · **27** operating maps. - Plain markdown files. Leaving is copying a folder. - An agent sees only what you point it at. ## You shipped. Then the context ran out. 1. ### Every session starts from zero. You re-explain pricing, margins and last week's decision to a fresh context window. CLAUDE.md holds the rules of the repo, not the state of the business. 2. ### The bills show up before the users. Tokens, credits and a hosting overage land in three dashboards, and none of them sits next to MRR. 3. ### Launch day lives in your head. The checklist is in one app, the feedback in another, and the changelog nowhere. ## From first post to paying customer, drawn from your files. Operating Maps draw the business the way it actually runs, from the notes you already keep. When a step stalls, the map flags it with its age. 1. Post on X or an article 2. Landing page 3. Signup 4. Onboarding emails 5. First key action 6. Stripe checkout 7. 4 days Failed payment recovered 8. Support and win-back Sample data. [Open it in the demo](https://oknola.com/demo/full/#as=saas) The weekly loop sits on its own map: feedback, backlog, build, deploy, changelog, announce. ## MRR is not the only number that matters. Your dashboard keeps revenue next to what it costs to earn it. - MRR and net new MRR $11.2k +3.2% - Paying members and churn, by customer and by revenue 1,240 3.4% churn - Visitors, signups and trial to paid 9.4% trial to paid - API, hosting and tool spend $612 - Profit and runway $19.0k Sample data. ## Markdown your agents already understand. - **The structure.** Oknola builds one folder with a fixed structure, the Indexed Brain, and keeps it that way at 40 notes and at 34,000. A wrong file is refused or fixed. - **The format.** Notes follow OKF, a public format, not ours. It's plain text, so git can snapshot any change. - **Scope by tag.** Point an agent at the files tagged BusinessOS and Week of posts drafts your build-in-public thread, Receipt to ledger files the hosting invoice, and Morning brief tells you what changed overnight. Your journal, tagged LifeOS, stays out of reach. Nothing is sent without your yes. ## Keep your stack. Give it a memory. - ### Stripe, Vercel, Supabase and Linear stay. Oknola keeps what their numbers mean for the business. - ### Already in Obsidian? Move in, don’t migrate. Oknola opens the same files and takes over the filing an editor leaves to you, then scopes the agents that work on them. - ### A Notion template works until the week you stop filling it in. Here the pass tidies the folder on a schedule, and your original stays beside it, word for word. ## FAQ. ### Isn't this just CLAUDE.md with extra steps? CLAUDE.md tells an agent how your repo works. Oknola holds how the business works: customers, money, launches and decisions, in a structure that doesn't drift. Your agent reads both. ### Why not build it myself with markdown and a script? Plain markdown was the right instinct, and Oknola keeps it. What it adds is the part scripts skip: a structure that holds when you're busy, and a pass that keeps it tidy. If you leave, you copy a folder. ### Does it work with Claude Code, Codex or Cursor? Yes. It's a folder of plain files any agent can read, and you run the pass with your own agent. ### Can an agent read my personal notes? Only if you allow the tag. An agent allowed BusinessOS never sees files tagged LifeOS. ### How does it sync? The Core syncs through your own Google Drive on Mac and Android. Native sync comes with Pro. ### What does it cost? The Core is free, and it's not a trial. Pro and apps are priced at launch, for one operator, never per seat. Early access, macOS and Android first. The structure, the pass and scoped agents work today. Operating Maps, Finance, Actions and superpowers are in build, and the demo shows them working on sample data. Also built for: [Solo founders](https://oknola.com/use-cases/solo-founders/) [Freelancers](https://oknola.com/use-cases/freelancers/) [Consultants](https://oknola.com/use-cases/consultants/) [Creators](https://oknola.com/use-cases/creators/) [All use cases](https://oknola.com/use-cases/) Early access ## Give the business the memory your code already has. Join the waitlist for early access on macOS and Android.