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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 askjdlkasdjsd »

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…

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 :)

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

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Post by JustAnotherVC »

askjdlkasdjsd wrote: post #41
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…

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 :)

Looks interesting. I could be a paid customer, is there a way to get access to this?

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

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Post by limograf »

For my one-woman-band projects I use:

Github for repos and static hosting Gandhi for domains S3 & Cloudfront for assets Fortrabbit or Digital Ocean also for hosting Runway for ML and hosted models Algolia for search Snipcart and Stripe for payments Trello for project management Whereby for client video calls Twilio for a phone number Google suite generally for admin and presentations etc Typeform for forms Waveapps for accounting

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

#45

Post by alfon »

https://www.revenuecat.com (YC S18)

API to manage In app subscriptions. I think it qualifies since it’s free up to 10K$ MTR.

Disclaimer: I work at RevenueCat, not in the mobile side of things although if I were to start a mobile app with subscriptions, after seeing how painful is to get it right, I for sure would use them.

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

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Post by jmstfv »

I share all tools (and their costs) I use to run my SaaS publicly: https://tryhexadecimal.com/running-costs

Roughly speaking:

* AWS for servers/database/CDN (because I have credits)

* Netlify for static site hosting & forms

* Cloudflare for DNS/domains

* Fastmail for email

* Redis Cloud for managed Redis hosting

* Stripe for billing/payments/company incorporation

* Sentry for exception tracking

* Twilio for SMS notifications

* Sendgrid for transactional email

* Tarsnap for backups

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

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Post by ryan-allen »

narrationbox wrote: post #40

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

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Post by narrationbox »

ryan-allen wrote: post #47
narrationbox wrote: post #40

Give us a try if you need text to speech: https://narrationbox.com

Heyo! I signed up, just a heads up that the verification email went to my spam folder. You may be able to somehow improve your reputation so they get through. I marked it 'not spam' to help, though!

Thanks for the heads-up! Really appreciate it.

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

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Post by dmitryminkovsky »

mceachen wrote: post #26

For PhotoStructure, I'm using * GitHub and GitLab for private and public repos * Just switched from GitLab CI to GitHub Actions (as self-hosted runners, especially on Windows, can be flaky) * MailChimp (free tier) * Drift for chat support (generous free tier) * Braintree (similar functionality to Stripe, but also includes PayPal) * Cloudflare proxying a Digital Ocean droplet running nginx serving a Hugo-built static…

Exiftool vendored is excellent thank you!
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