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

#1

Post by lbj » Mon, Jun 15, 2020, 9:26 AM UTC

Looking for some inspiration. Ive done a lot of MVPs/Early-stage apps over the years and I tend to lean on the same SaaS portfolio for mails, text gateways, payment etc, but Im sure Ive missed a few valuable additions.

Here's a few I use: Mails: Mailchimp / Mandrill Payment: Paylike Search: Algolia

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#2

Post by veeralpatel979 » Tue, Jun 16, 2020, 1:05 AM UTC

I saw http://viable.fit/ on Twitter today!

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#3

Post by british_india » Tue, Jun 16, 2020, 1:20 AM UTC

Kubernetes, Terraform, Terragrunt, gangway

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#4

Post by jtolmar » Tue, Jun 16, 2020, 1:40 AM UTC

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)

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Post by diegoperini » Tue, Jun 16, 2020, 1:43 AM UTC

Twilio for international SMS and more GSM related stuff.

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Post by stockkid » Tue, Jun 16, 2020, 1:52 AM UTC

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)

Beanstalk is cool. Just curious, in what ways could it be more simplified? I think we can already just upload our code and forget about it. It could be that I am missing something.

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Post by kag0 » Tue, Jun 16, 2020, 1:52 AM UTC

Metabase for data analysis. Admittedly not a service, but more than worth running a docker container yourself since it's FREE.

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Post by toomuchtodo » Tue, Jun 16, 2020, 1:56 AM UTC

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)

Dumber Beanstalk would be Heroku?

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Post by redis_mlc » Tue, Jun 16, 2020, 2:03 AM UTC

veeralpatel979 wrote: post #2

I saw http://viable.fit/ on Twitter today!

You don't see a lot of purple web sites. Worth visiting just for that experience.

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#10

Post by matt_oriordan » Tue, Jun 16, 2020, 2:03 AM UTC

Netlify/Vercel for static site hosting, intercom for chat, SendGrid for mail sending, Ably for pub/sub real-time messaging (yes I’m from ably.com!), paddle for subscriptions as opposed to stripe...