stacks

stacks worth stealing.

ready-made tool combos for the kind of work you actually do. pick one, copy it, get back to building.

the ai-native dev stack

$50–200/mo

for people building agents and llm products, not just bolting a chatbot onto a crud app.

+1

7 tools

see stack

the broke hobbyist stack

$0/mo

side projects that cost actual zero. not a free tier that emails you about upgrading.

+2

8 tools

see stack

the design studio stack

~$120/mo

run client work, decks, and deliverables without juggling six disconnected apps.

+1

7 tools

see stack

the indie hacker stack

~$40/mo

ship a saas solo without burning money on tools you don't need yet.

p
+3

9 tools

see stack

the no-code founder stack

~$80/mo

build and launch a real product without writing a single line of code.

t
p

6 tools

see stack

how to actually pick one

a stack is a series of bets. pick on what is hard to reverse, not what is easy to compare.

hard to undo

database
holds everything. moving it means downtime.
auth
every session and password hash. most cannot move.
payments
your subscription history and card tokens.

get these three right. the rest is a weekend to replace.

  • watch the billing model, not the price

    $20 per seat is $200 on a team of ten. $20 per org is still $20.

  • assume the free tier changes

    clerk raised its free tier to 50,000 users. mixpanel cut its from 20M events to 1M.

  • boring beats clever

    the bigger community has more answers, and more people who already know it.