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Ask HN: What are your go to SaaS products for startups/MVPs?
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#72# GitHub and Bitbucket for private and public repos
# Sendgrid (mails and campaigns)
# Slack for team chats
# 2Checkout for payment
# GA for analytics
# Trello for team tasks
# G suite for email and drive
# Postman for automated API tests
# Datadog for monitoring and tracing
# SonarQube for code quality assessment
# AWS as cloud provider
# Microtica for automation and software delivery
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#73Zoho One - One platform for all your business needs. CRM, Mail, Finance, Support, Marketing, HR, Office Suite, Chat, Project Management, Business Intelligence, Custom Solutions, etc.
NB: I work for Zoho.
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#74Zoho One - One platform for all your business needs. CRM, Mail, Finance, Support, Marketing, HR, Office Suite, Chat, Project Management, Business Intelligence, Custom Solutions, etc. https://www.zoho.com/one/ NB: I work for Zoho.
Having used Zoho for 3 years, I can say that Zoho is nice because it's cheap, but you get what you pay for. It feels like the less-good version of G Suite in almost every way.
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#75All in on AWS for BE. Just about everything you need is there for free or close to free. Netlify for FE hosting just because it’s so easy to tie up to Github. Retool for ops. Metabase for BI. Seed for Serverless CI/CD.
What kind of things are you doing in Retool for ops?
We're pretty new to it but anything and everything ops related is running through it with minimal effort –
* Lookup various account types and see all relationships
* Editing accounts
* Changing permissions and verifying accounts
* Uploading logos to S3
Re: Ask HN: What are your go to SaaS products for startups/MVPs?
#76All in on AWS for BE. Just about everything you need is there for free or close to free. Netlify for FE hosting just because it’s so easy to tie up to Github. Retool for ops. Metabase for BI. Seed for Serverless CI/CD.
What kind of things are you doing in Retool for ops?
If you aren't familiar with it, take a look at their examples. You can do whatever you'd like with it.
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#77My favourite stack at the moment for fast MVPs:
* Frontend with Angular deployed on Netlify on git push to the production branch
* AWS Lambda + API Gateway via Serverless and Nest.js for API endpoints
* Airtable API for recording data (under 1000 records = free)
* For larger database needs, I set up postgres, mongo, or I use DynamoDB
* SendGrid for transactional emails
* MailChimp for marketing emails
* Mollie for payments
* Matomo deployed on a DigitalOcean droplet for GDPR-proof analytics
* Zapier for all kinds of automated workflows
* Trello for project management
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#78https://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…
If you're looking for market/competition research, I'd recommend https://coscout.com as well, for info about companies, funding, competitors, tech stack etc It's in alpha right now, so you'll have to get in the waitlist, though they're only a few weeks away from launching AFAIK. Full disclosure: A friend of mine is building this :)
Long term viability of SaaS solutions is definitely worth researching.
Is this something that's going to get acquired and be extinguished?
What are our switching costs?
How do we get our data in a format that can be: read into our data warehouse/lake and imported into an alternate service if necessary in the future?
How does Coscout compare to e.g. Crunchbase, PitchBook (Morningstar), YCharts, AngelList?
Re: Ask HN: What are your go to SaaS products for startups/MVPs?
#79https://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.
Yw, np
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#80All my products mostly start with these list of essential services, but can do away with the free plans until the product grows.
* Github for repositories (Free) * Namecheap for DNS * Zoho for emails (free for 5 email accounts) * Mailgun for emails (1250 emails per month free) * Trello for project management (free) * Airbrake for error monitoring (7.5 errors per month free) * Tawk.to for customer support contact form (free) * Netlify for frontend hosting (free) * Cloudflare for CDN (free) * Hetzner for servers. (this is the only paid service :), but its only $2.70 per month for a 1Vcpu 2GB ram vps) * Paddle for payments (they take 5% cut which is very reasonable for the services they offer)
This stack pretty much allows me to just invest "time" into a project and get it out, before scaling it.