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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 WrtCdEvrydy »

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)

CapRover can accept any docker file (or a zip file with a .captain file). You can provision most databases and external self hosted services on a simple UI.

I self host it on a $5 droplet.

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

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Post by timothy-quinn »

Mailchimp & Sendgrid for mail (I like MC for campaigns, but SG for API call driven messages).

Firebase for hosting/serverless funcs.

G Suite for collaboration.

Bitbucket for Repos (they had better enterprise-y tools for free, not sure if Github now is at parity).

Notion for task lists and product specs.

Stripe for payments.

Twilio for SMS.

Cloudflare for caching/DNS.

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

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Post by chrisMyzel »

shameles plug - founder of myzel.io here - we're about to launch a platform that combines all the things you need as a startup in one platform.

As a simple example: Your startup is about tracking corona infections? You'll get the service built (no dev/design team needed), you'll get the services you need integrated (let's say kafka cluster, push notifications, analytics dashboard) and we host, monitor and scale it. All you need is an idea!

Love to see you all posting your favorite services. Following this

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

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Post by chrisMyzel »

chrisMyzel wrote: post #15

shameles plug - founder of myzel.io here - we're about to launch a platform that combines all the things you need as a startup in one platform. As a simple example: Your startup is about tracking corona infections? You'll get the service built (no dev/design team needed), you'll get the services you need integrated (let's say kafka cluster, push notifications, analytics dashboard) and we host, monitor and scale it. A…

I see people signing up - unfortunately this is pre-mvp for until next monday. Happy if you reach out to chris@myzel.io for more info, pricing, etc.

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

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Post by jtolmar »

stockkid wrote: post #6
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.

There's a lot of configuration, and not a lot of debug output. Simple things that should be defaults like HTTPS forwarding instead require a barely-documented ngnx patch. If something goes wrong before your app comes up, it doesn't tell you. Logs are spread across several files, most of them meaningless because they're details about the AWS-generated environment.

It does a good enough job of staying running once it's up though, so at least it's easy to forget why it was a pain to set up.

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

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Post by jtolmar »

WrtCdEvrydy wrote: post #11
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)

CapRover can accept any docker file (or a zip file with a .captain file). You can provision most databases and external self hosted services on a simple UI. I self host it on a $5 droplet.

Well the pitch is certainly good. I'll look into it, thanks!
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