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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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If I wanted a SaaS stack with fewer moving parts than a full platform backend, I'd start here: Next.js frontend, serverless Postgres, typed queries, managed auth, billing, and simple deployment.
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Serverless Postgres
Serverless Postgres fits spiky early traffic well and avoids managing a database box before the product earns it.
Open tool profileTyped data layer
Schema changes stay explicit and typed, so moving quickly does not mean losing confidence in the data model.
Open tool profileManaged auth
Production-ready auth and organizations remove weeks of signup, session, and security plumbing.
Open tool profileBilling
Subscriptions, upgrades, and billing webhooks are already solved, which keeps the team focused on the product.
Open tool profileDeployment
Preview deploys and zero-config hosting keep shipping smooth for a small team.
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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.
I'm a product designer who codes. This stack cuts the translation loss between what I design in Figma and what ships — components come out looking like the design, not like a developer's interpretation of it.
I had five years of Django code and wanted a modern React frontend without a full rewrite. This hybrid keeps the Python backend that works and replaces the Jinja templates with something my team actually enjoys.
Hosted authentication and user management for React, Next.js, and modern web apps: prebuilt sign-in UI, sessions, orgs, B2B add-ons, and optional Clerk Billing tied to Stripe.
Payments infrastructure for the internet: card present and online processing, Billing for subscriptions and invoicing, Connect for marketplaces, Tax, Radar fraud tools, and Terminal for in-person hardware.
Frontend cloud from the Next.js creators: Git-connected deployments, preview URLs per branch, serverless and edge functions, CDN, analytics, and team workflows—optimized for modern JavaScript frameworks.
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