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Ask HN: What are your go to SaaS products for startups/MVPs?

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Re: Ask HN: What are your go to SaaS products for startups/MVPs?

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Post by kbyatnal »

jtolmar wrote: post #4

Stripe for payments, AWS Elastic Beanstalk for hosting/deployments. Wish there was an even dumber alternative to Beanstalk. I've been tempted to build my own thing to get closer to my ideal of uploading a jar and forgetting about it. (Raw javascript / vertx / postgres for actual development, but these aren't SaaS)

This was a big reason why I switched over to Heroku. More expensive, for sure, but I'm so much more productive and don't have to worry about annoying config issues.

Re: Ask HN: What are your go to SaaS products for startups/MVPs?

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Post by zenincognito »

westurner wrote: post #29

https://StackShare.io and https://FounderKit.com are great places to find reviews of SaaS services: > mails, https://founderkit.com/growth-marketing/email-marketing/revi... https://stackshare.io/email-marketing https://zapier.com/learn/email-marketing/ > text gateways, https://founderkit.com/apis/sms/reviews https://stackshare.io/voice-and-sms > payments https://founderkit.com/apis/credit-card-processing/reviews http…

you can also find alternatives on https://hackerspad.net

Re: Ask HN: What are your go to SaaS products for startups/MVPs?

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Post by bdcravens »

risyachka wrote: post #22
bdcravens wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I know Datadog has the risk of being very expensive.

It is the modern world of SaaS. If your margins are not super hight you are out.

Datadog left a bad taste in my mouth (different story for a different time, but it's more of a business practice thing than the product), but they can charge what they want. My point is startups/MVPs need to watch costs, so Datadog's value prop may mean it's not be the best use of capital.

Re: Ask HN: What are your go to SaaS products for startups/MVPs?

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Post by DanHulton »

So, not a SaaS itself, but I am working on a JavaScript SaaS starter kit, if you're looking for another tool to have in your belt. Instead of writing all the common code (user authentication/management, subscriptions, build systems, design systems) for your app yourself, Nodewood (https://nodewood.com) starts you off with all that written by someone for whom it is the main focus, not a secondary one.

Perhaps closer to your original ask, here's the SaaS tools I tend to lean on:

- For hosting, I like Linode (https://www.linode.com/). Decent VPS prices and they keep increasing the value you get for the same price.

- For analytics, I like Clicky (https://clicky.com/). Less intrusive than Google Analytics and a simpler interface.

- For email, Mailgun (https://www.mailgun.com/pricing/). They're more focused on transactional email, not marketing email, which is a subtle difference, but can be worth it depending on what you're doing.

- Stripe (https://stripe.com/) is still king for payments. Their API sets the standard.

Re: Ask HN: What are your go to SaaS products for startups/MVPs?

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Post by lbj »

westurner wrote: post #29

https://StackShare.io and https://FounderKit.com are great places to find reviews of SaaS services: > mails, https://founderkit.com/growth-marketing/email-marketing/revi... https://stackshare.io/email-marketing https://zapier.com/learn/email-marketing/ > text gateways, https://founderkit.com/apis/sms/reviews https://stackshare.io/voice-and-sms > payments https://founderkit.com/apis/credit-card-processing/reviews http…

Awesome resources, thanks a lot for sharing.
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