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I built my first SaaS on Next.js

Supabase Stripe Prettier Postmark Material UI Kutt.it GraphQL ESLint Amazon SNS
  1. An open source Firebase alternative
    Pricing:
    For hosting the database (which is Postgres) I went with supabase. I was already using Prisma for the ORM since it came with Bedrock, so I didn't use the SDJ from Supabase. However, it was simple to setup a new account, grab the connection string, and hook it into my existing code. They have a good free tier for a project like this. And I enjoy their UI when using the web app.

    #Developer Tools #Realtime Backend / API #Backend As A Service 420 social mentions

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    Online payment processing for internet businesses. Stripe is a suite of payment APIs that powers commerce for online businesses of all sizes. Use Stripe’s payment platform to accept and process payments online for easy-to-use commerce solutions.
    Pricing:
    Stripe - Basic Stripe integration for subscription plans configured and working.

    #Online Payments #Recurring Billing #eCommerce Tools 239 social mentions

  3. An opinionated code formatter
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    Things like Prettier and ESLint already configured to lint and auto-fix issues while coding and at pre-commit.

    #Developer Tools #Code Analysis #JavaScript Framework 250 social mentions

  4. Postmark is the easiest and most reliable way to be sure your important transactional emails get to the inbox. Simply & reliably parse recieved email to JSON for your webapp.
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    #Email Delivery #Email Marketing #Email Marketing Platforms 49 social mentions

  5. A CSS Framework and a Set of React Components that Implement Google's Material Design
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    I decided to go with Material-UI for a number of reasons. For starters, I'm not very strong in design, so I wanted an opinionated frontend framework that would guide me to better design. Something that didn't require very much customization to make it look decent. I have heard great things about Material-UI, and it works great with Next.js. They also provide some nice demos to help inspire my non-creative brain.

    #Design Tools #Development Tools #CSS Framework 75 social mentions

  6. Kutt.it is a free and open source URL shortener with custom domains and stats.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    After some research, I decided to give Kutt a try. It's open source and free, and there is a node SDK which can make it easy to use.

    #Link Management #URL Shortener #Branded URLs 1 social mentions

  7. GraphQL is a data query language and runtime to request and deliver data to mobile and web apps.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Developer Tools #JavaScript Framework #Web Framework 221 social mentions

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    The fully pluggable JavaScript code quality tool
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    Things like Prettier and ESLint already configured to lint and auto-fix issues while coding and at pre-commit.

    #Code Coverage #Code Quality #Developer Tools 223 social mentions

  9. Fully managed pub/sub messaging for microservices, distributed systems, and serverless applications
    To send the SMS notifications I went with Amazon SNS. I was hesitant to do this because every time I have worked with anything AWS related I have wasted hours trying to figure out how to get everything configured correctly. Fortunately SNS wasn't too complicated, and their docs helped me through it. One great benefit is that you get something like 1 million requests free on the AWS Free Tier. This should be plenty to get me started.

    #Data Integration #Stream Processing #Web Service Automation 54 social mentions

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