Ask HN: Great tools for solo SaaS founders? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Great tools for solo SaaS founders?

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Post by Cilvic » Sun, Nov 21, 2021, 8:38 PM UTC

blopker wrote: post #39

iamstupidsimple wrote: post #25

Personally: - Google Cloud Run (or anything that can run docker) - SendGrid (but use SMTP only for easy migration) - Google Workspace (Office/Notion are also cool but I just don't use them often) - Mainly Go with Python for scripts - PostgreSQL - gRPC/Protocol Buffers for API servers Where possible I try and take on as few dependencies on big cloud services, and always use standard gateways. It makes moving around mu…

IndieHackers looks great. How can I get an invite code?

Messaging courtland@indiehackers.com and mentioning HN worked for me. My account is too fresh to have invites.

Re: Ask HN: Great tools for solo SaaS founders?

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Post by igeligel_dev » Sun, Nov 21, 2021, 8:43 PM UTC

For https://tooltipr.com I am using

  - tawk.to
  - render.com
  - No Payments implemented but will use Stripe
  - Namecheap
  - Google Analytics + Google Search Console (Search console is really good)

Re: Ask HN: Great tools for solo SaaS founders?

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Post by niftylettuce » Sun, Nov 21, 2021, 8:45 PM UTC

I built https://forwardemail.net to save money and time on email hosting/SMTP.

Re: Ask HN: Great tools for solo SaaS founders?

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Post by ogjunkyard » Sun, Nov 21, 2021, 8:48 PM UTC

system2 wrote: post #11

cweill wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can you please write a blog post or book about your experience? I'm trying to get into solo SAAS, and this kind of post is pure gold for me!

He has a blog: dangrossman.info He is an active HN'er. You can also find out more about users by clicking their name. Seasoned ones have some sort of profile.

Maybe I'm missing something, but this doesn't look at all like a blog and/or I can't find a way to find any posts.

Also, that is a rough background with it changing every couple of seconds.

Re: Ask HN: Great tools for solo SaaS founders?

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Post by worker767424 » Sun, Nov 21, 2021, 8:49 PM UTC

iamstupidsimple wrote: post #25

Personally: - Google Cloud Run (or anything that can run docker) - SendGrid (but use SMTP only for easy migration) - Google Workspace (Office/Notion are also cool but I just don't use them often) - Mainly Go with Python for scripts - PostgreSQL - gRPC/Protocol Buffers for API servers Where possible I try and take on as few dependencies on big cloud services, and always use standard gateways. It makes moving around mu…

I like Protobuf, but think that for the volume most operations deal with, you're better off with how well-support and understood HTTP is.

Re: Ask HN: Great tools for solo SaaS founders?

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Post by nomdep » Sun, Nov 21, 2021, 8:50 PM UTC

cultofmetatron wrote: post #48

rawoke083600 wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>* Sendgrid for transactional/outbound email All good recommendations ! I would advise/caution AGAINST SendGrid. They have a quite the terrible reputation and my n=1 experience is that over a weekend they suspended my production account without cause ! 1) I've been sending the EXACT same mails and number (less than 200-300 a month) to the exact same ppl on their free-tier. 2) I asked to upgraded to a PAID account to…

After Donglegate, I had already put them on my blacklist. Now I see that my suspicions that it was just the tip of the iceberg came out to be true.

Agreed, they (used to?) hire the most incompetent developer evangelists

Re: Ask HN: Great tools for solo SaaS founders?

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Post by worker767424 » Sun, Nov 21, 2021, 8:50 PM UTC

I recently stumbled across healthchecks.io. It's a one-man SaaS that does cronjob monitoring.

Re: Ask HN: Great tools for solo SaaS founders?

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Post by ignoramous » Sun, Nov 21, 2021, 8:58 PM UTC

systemvoltage wrote: post #36

gfauchart wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you use AWS why would you use Namecheap instead of Route53? Even if .com are 4$ cheaper on Namecheap per year. if you have one or two domains, I would prefer simplicity of integration with AWS over small savings. Also is Cloudflare better (or cheaper) than Cloudfront ?

I would suggest Cloudflare registrar + CDN + DDoS protection. Keep all the backend stuff on AWS.

Better yet, keep it on Lightsail, it has fixed pricing plans for containers ($7 per mo), VPS ($3.5), database ($15), blob store ($3 per 100GB), and disk ($1 per 10GB). Lightsail can peer into (same region) regular VPC as well for $1 per 100GB ingress+egress.

Re: Ask HN: Great tools for solo SaaS founders?

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Post by system2 » Sun, Nov 21, 2021, 9:03 PM UTC

ogjunkyard wrote: post #54

system2 wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

He has a blog: dangrossman.info He is an active HN'er. You can also find out more about users by clicking their name. Seasoned ones have some sort of profile.

Maybe I'm missing something, but this doesn't look at all like a blog and/or I can't find a way to find any posts. Also, that is a rough background with it changing every couple of seconds.

I believe the question to pricing strategy can be found in this intro paragraph:

"I'm Dan Grossman, the founder of Improvely and W3Counter. In my spare time, I also run Lignin & Light, a shop for hand-crafted gifts, with most items made on my Glowforge Pro."

Re: Ask HN: Great tools for solo SaaS founders?

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Post by Pandabob » Sun, Nov 21, 2021, 9:12 PM UTC

blopker wrote: post #39

iamstupidsimple wrote: post #25

Personally: - Google Cloud Run (or anything that can run docker) - SendGrid (but use SMTP only for easy migration) - Google Workspace (Office/Notion are also cool but I just don't use them often) - Mainly Go with Python for scripts - PostgreSQL - gRPC/Protocol Buffers for API servers Where possible I try and take on as few dependencies on big cloud services, and always use standard gateways. It makes moving around mu…

IndieHackers looks great. How can I get an invite code?

Does IH require an invitation now?