mdeora / saas-starter-stack

Free and Affordable Tools for Building a SaaS

SaaS Starter Stack

A curated list of free and affordable tools for building a SaaS.

Get your SaaS up and running in no time with this list of free and affordable tools. Contribute.

Table of Contents

• Code
• Boilerplate Starter Kits
• Databases
• Hosting
• Subscriptions & Payments
• Live Chat
• Social Media Management
• Link Shortening
• Media Processing & CDNs
• Website Analytics
• User Feedback
• Website Monitoring
• SMS Notifications
• Push Notifications
• Affiliates
• E-mail Notifications
• Event Scheduling
• Authentification and User Management

Tools

Code 👨‍💻

• Nuxt - The intuitive Vue framework.
• Next.js - The React Framework for the Web
• Remix - Focused on web standards and modern web app UX
• Sveltekit - Web development, streamlined.

Boilerplate Starter Kits

• Just Launch It - Sveltekit boilerplate to rapidly build and launch your unicorn Saas.
• ShipFast - NextJS boilerplate with all you need to build your SaaS.
• Ionstarter - Ionic starter templates to launch apps in record time.

Databases 🗄️

• MongoDB - Developer data platform (NoSQL).
• Supabase - Open Source Firebase Alternative

Hosting 💾

• Render - Build, deploy, and scale your apps.
• Vercel - Build, scale, and secure a faster, personalized web.
• Railway - Instant Deployments, Effortless Scale
• Netlify - Connect everything. Build anything.
• Zeabur - Deploy painlessly and scale infinitely.

Subscriptions & Payments 💳

• Stripe - Financial infrastructure for the internet.
• Lemon Squeezy - Payments, tax & subscriptions.

Live Chat 💬

• Crisp - All-in-one business messaging platform.
• Intercom - AI customer service solution.
• JustReply - Customer support tool for teams using Slack.

Social Media Management 🖼️

• Pallyy - Scheduling platform for brands and agencies.
• Buffer- Grow your audience on social and beyond.

Link Shortening 🔗

• Dub - Open-source link management.
• URLR - Reliable and GDPR-compliant link shortener.

Media Processing & Content Delivery Networks 🖼️

• Transloadit - Receive, transform, or deliver any file.
• ImageKit - Real-time image and video optimizations, transformations.

Website Analytics 📶

• Plausible - Privacy first analytics.
• Fathom Analytics - Excellent Google Analytics Alternative
• Simple Analytics - EU Based complaincy focased.
• Umami - Empowering insights, Preserving privacy.
• Beam Analytics - Google Analytics alternative with the most generous free tier

Website Monitoring 🔔

• DataDog - See inside any stack, any app, at any scale, anywhere.
• OpenStatus - The open-source website & API monitoring platform.
• Sentry - Fully integrated, multi-environment performance monitoring & error tracking.

User Feedback 📢

• Canny - Capture product feedback.
• featureOS - Organize product feedback and analyze with AI.
• [Supahub][https://supahub.com] - Collect feedback & announce product updates.

SMS Notifications 📱

• Notilify - Send marketing, transactional, notifications, and other types of SMS.

Push Notifications 🚀

• NotifStation - Send push notifications.

Affiliates 🤝

• PromoteKit - Affiliate software for Stripe.

E-mail Notifications 📧

• Resend - Email for developers.
• Mailgun - Email service providing API, SMTP for transactional emails & marketing campaigns.

Event Scheduling 📆

• Cal.com - Scheduling Infrastructure for Everyone.

Authentification and User Management 👤

• Clerk - The most comprehensive User Management Platform

✏️ Contribute

Contributions are always welcome! Please read the contribution guidelines first.