Ask HN: What are your go to SaaS products for startups/MVPs? • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by weitzj » Tue, Jun 16, 2020, 6:35 AM UTC

- Logdna for logs - rsync.net for backups and S3 „gateway“

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

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Post by dmitryminkovsky » Tue, Jun 16, 2020, 6:36 AM UTC

Surprised not to see Zendesk here seems lots of people are using them...

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

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Post by jakelazaroff » Tue, Jun 16, 2020, 6:46 AM UTC

Here’s what I use for my app https://songrender.com:

- DigitalOcean for servers/load balancer/database/object storage

- Netlify for the frontend and marketing site

- Cloudflare for CDN and DNS

- Stripe for payment processing

- Postmark for transactional emails

- Papertrail for logging

- Sentry for error tracking

- Fathom for analytics

- StatusCake for uptime monitoring

- GitLab for code hosting

- Trello for project management

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

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Post by tkainrad » Tue, Jun 16, 2020, 6:52 AM UTC

For https://keycombiner.com I am using:

Development & Project management:

- GitLab

- Notion

- Sentry

Hosting:

- PythonAnywhere (Makes hosting a django application very simple!:))

- Cloudflare (Free tier already works great for caching purposes)

Mail:

- Mailgun

Payments:

- https://paddle.com/ (to handle sales tax on top of stripe)

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

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Post by abinaya_rl » Tue, Jun 16, 2020, 7:05 AM UTC

Highly recommend

- https://simpleanalytics.com -> Simple, clean, and privacy-friendly analytics

- https://wip.chat -> it's a community of makers who help each other ship products.

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

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Post by michalbugno » Tue, Jun 16, 2020, 7:09 AM UTC

In https://getprobe.io (built in Ruby) we use:

AWS (RDS, S3, ECS, EC2)

https://www.mailgun.com for emails

https://rollbar.com for error reporting

https://stripe.com for payments

https://gsuite.google.com for email, calendar, sheets

https://slack.com (free) for chat

https://trello.com (free) for keeping track of things

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

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Post by davedx » Tue, Jun 16, 2020, 7:11 AM UTC

Hosting: DigitalOcean

Emails: Mailchimp (marketing), Sendgrid (transactional)

Development: Github, Bitbucket, Trello

Payments: Stripe (I've seen people try to cheap out on payments gateways, it's always a big, costly mistake. Choose a good one)

I have a question to people using things like CloudFlare, S3 etc. for early stage apps and MVP's: why?

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

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Post by rozenmd » Tue, Jun 16, 2020, 7:12 AM UTC

For https://PerfBeacon.com I'm using:

- Chat window: Crisp

- Email Newsletter/Transactional: Mailgun/Mailchimp

- Payments: Stripe

- Hosting: AWS Lambda / API Gateway / CloudFront / S3

- Code: GitHub

- CI: CircleCI

- Task management: Trello

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

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Post by Taurenking » Tue, Jun 16, 2020, 7:40 AM UTC

For https://calenduck.co (built with Django) we use:

https://dashboard.heroku.com/ for the infra

https://www.sendinblue.com for emails

https://sentry.io for error reporting

https://stripe.com for payments

https://papertrailapp.com/ for logging

https://slack.com (free) for chat

https://trello.com (free) for keeping track of things

Totaling at 14$ a month, it doesn't really get any cheaper

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

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Post by semicolonandson » Tue, Jun 16, 2020, 9:18 AM UTC

I've been an indie-hacker for a decade and personally the biggest win by a country mile is Heroku (platform as a service).

Even though I'd consider myself good with linux etc., I still love Heroku because it's a massive time and stress saver not to have to deal with most deployment issues myself.