Build a SaaS
Auth, payments, transactional email, observability. Scales to ~10k MAU before re-pricing.
Read the build →Reference stacks for indie devs and bootstrapped founders who’d rather spend $87/month than $870. Every guide is itemized, dated, and built on tools we have running in production right now.
Six reference builds, from a $11 landing page to a $150 two-sided marketplace. Every tool in every stack is listed by name, with last-updated date and our actual current monthly bill.
Auth, payments, transactional email, observability. Scales to ~10k MAU before re-pricing.
Read the build →First-100-user budget. Ship in a weekend, validate before you pay for anything fancier.
Read the build →Up to ~2,500 subs on Beehiiv free. This stack pays for the domain, the page builder, and a backup ESP.
Read the build →Two-sided. Payments, KYC, listings search. The $150 line is honest — you can't ship a marketplace for less and stay legal.
Read the build →Video hosting is the line item that ruins most $50 budgets. Here's how to keep it civil.
Read the build →One page, one form, one conversion goal. Anyone selling you more than this for a landing page is selling you the wrong thing.
Read the build →A 30-second estimate of what your stack will cost in the first six months. Move the controls; the number on the right moves with them.
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