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I run five side projects on one DigitalOcean Droplet for $24 a month. This stack handles 80k monthly visitors combined and has taught me more about infrastructure than years of managed platforms ever did.
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This is the stack for B2B SaaS teams that outgrow simple checkout flows. Billing automation, invoices, lifecycle email, analytics, and your product database all stay connected.
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Billing automation
Automates subscriptions, invoicing, dunning, and revenue workflows that simple checkout flows do not cover well.
Open tool profilePayment rail
Acts as the payment rail under a billing layer built for more complex B2B pricing.
Open tool profileInternal billing state
Stores account entitlements, internal billing state, and finance-adjacent data the product needs.
Open tool profileLifecycle email
Lifecycle email for invoices, payment failures, onboarding, and account notices stays easy to ship.
Open tool profileExpansion analytics
Lets the team connect revenue events to feature usage and plan expansion behavior.
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