💰 My Frugal Indie Dev Startup Stack

Productivity Email Marketing Cloud Computing

Vercel Landing Page

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Vercel

Vercel is the platform for frontend developers, providing the speed and reliability innovators need to create at the moment of inspiration.

#Developer Tools #Web Development Tools #App Deployment 531 social mentions
Stripe Atlas Landing Page

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Stripe Atlas

The best way to start an internet business

#Cutting Optimisers #Legal Services #Productivity 40 social mentions
StopLight Landing Page
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StopLight

Stoplight is an API Design, Development, and Documentation platform that enables consistency, reusability, and quality in your API lifecycle, all with an easy, enjoyable developer experience.
Pricing:
- Open Source
- Freemium
- Free Trial
#API Tools #APIs #API 24 social mentions
SendGrid Landing Page

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SendGrid

Learn why more developers choose SendGrid for their email deliverability service to send transactional emails triggered by web apps. Get started for free

#Email Delivery #Transactional Email #Email Marketing 106 social mentions
Retool Landing Page
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Retool

Build custom internal tools in minutes.
Pricing:
- Freemium
- Free Trial
- $10.0 / Monthly (Startup)
#No Code #Rapid Application Development #Productivity 89 social mentions
Plausible.io Landing Page
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Plausible.io

Plausible Analytics is a simple, open-source, lightweight (< 1 KB) and privacy-friendly web analytics alternative to Google Analytics. Made and hosted in the EU, powered by European-owned cloud infrastructure 🇪🇺
Pricing:
- Open Source
- Paid
- Free Trial
- $9.0 / Monthly (10,000 pageviews)
No surprises here. I used to use Plausible, but that costs money and you can't beat free. Monthly cost: $0.

#Web Analytics #Analytics #Privacy 189 social mentions
Mercury Landing Page
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Mercury

Mercury is banking* for startups
Pricing:
- Free
#Money Transfer #Online Payments #Finance 34 social mentions
Linear Landing Page

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Linear

Streamlined issue tracking for software teams

#Project Management #Task Management #Productivity 124 social mentions
GitHub Landing Page
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GitHub

Originally founded as a project to simplify sharing code, GitHub has grown into an application used by over a million people to store over two million code repositories, making GitHub the largest code host in the world.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Code Collaboration #Git #Version Control 2062 social mentions
Waitlist API Landing Page

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Waitlist API

Quick and easy waitlist with built in referral.

Indie developers today stand on the shoulders of giants. There are tons of great SAAS products that have made otherwise expensive, enterprise-grade features cheap and accessible. This enables entrepreneurship. I've been able to build getwaitlist.com on a shoestring budget to serve thousands of users and millions of signups on Waitlists. I thought it might be nice to share the tools I've used to get here, and the favors I've pulled to spend as little as possible.

#Marketing #Personal Website #Web App 8 social mentions
Dynadot Landing Page

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Dynadot

Register your perfect domain name, hosting your website, and build your website all on dynadot.com! Each domain comes with a free 3-page site builder, so you can get started today!

Getwaitlist.com is registered with Google Domains for a grand $12/year. If I were using Dynadot.com or another domain registrar, I could get the cost under $10/year. Monthly cost: $1.

#Domain Names #Network & Admin #Domain Name Registrar 4 social mentions
Customer.io Landing Page

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Customer.io

We make it easy to send emails triggered by user behavior. Build, measure and improve your emails to activate and retain users

The final note I'll make is that I've hand-rolled a few additional features that people are normally paying for. For example, I don't use Mailchimp or any tool like that — I send my marketing mail straight via Sendgrid. I dont use customer.io for my email sequences — even though it's very good — because I was able to just build my own email sequencing system. Time will tell whether I end up needing to replace my homespun solutions with more sophisticated third-party SAAS, but so far, my infrastructure for Waitlist is holding up strong!

#Email Marketing #CRM #Email Marketing Platforms 27 social mentions
Amazon AWS Landing Page

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Amazon AWS

Amazon Web Services offers reliable, scalable, and inexpensive cloud computing services. Free to join, pay only for what you use.

#Cloud Computing #Cloud Infrastructure #IaaS 368 social mentions
Ahrefs Landing Page

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Ahrefs

Ahrefs is a toolset for SEO and marketing. We have tools for backlink research, organic traffic research, keyword research, content marketing & more. Give Ahrefs a try!

#SEO Tools #Keyword Research #Content Marketing 111 social mentions
1Password Landing Page
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1Password

1Password can create strong, unique passwords for you, remember them, and restore them, all directly in your web browser.
Pricing:
- Paid
- Free Trial
- $36.0 / Annually
#Password Management #Password Managers #Security & Privacy 119 social mentions