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My Nimble SaaS Stack

Webflow Vercel Tailwind UI Tailwind CSS Stripe SendGrid Sanity.io React Next.js Gumroad
  1. Build dynamic, responsive websites in your browser. Launch with a click. Or export your squeaky-clean code to host wherever you'd like. Discover the professional website builder made for designers.
    Webflow: I use Webflow for the main website. Since the consumer-facing site is usually for marketing, I opted for a no-code solution here. This makes it easy to pass off to a freelancer or marketing team when necessary. Webflow also has a lot of wireframes and templates available that you can use to copy/paste whatever parts you need. Developing a website like this usually takes less than a day or two.

    #Website Builder #CMS #Website Design 131 social mentions

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    Vercel is the platform for frontend developers, providing the speed and reliability innovators need to create at the moment of inspiration.

    #Developer Tools #Web Development Tools #App Deployment 518 social mentions

  3. Beautiful UI components by the creators of Tailwind CSS.
    Tailwind CSS: A CSS framework I've recently started using. I don't love most CSS frameworks, but this one meets most of my needs and has a lot of existing components you can just copy/paste into your project.

    #Design Tools #UI Design #Components Library 206 social mentions

  4. A utility-first CSS framework for rapidly building custom user interfaces.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    Tailwind CSS: A CSS framework I've recently started using. I don't love most CSS frameworks, but this one meets most of my needs and has a lot of existing components you can just copy/paste into your project.

    #Developer Tools #Design Tools #Website Design 858 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: Payment processing, required by Outseta. I don't use Stripe directly since it would require a lot more custom code to set up things like teams, and have the data linked to a CRM. Using Outseta for that stuff saves a lot of time.

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

  6. Learn why more developers choose SendGrid for their email deliverability service to send transactional emails triggered by web apps. Get started for free
    Sendgrid: Email API for whenever I need transactional emails for more complex use cases beyond what Outseta sends.

    #Email Delivery #Transactional Email #Email Marketing 105 social mentions

  7. Sanity.io a platform for structured content that comes with an open-source editor that you can customize with React.js.
    Pricing:
    Sanity: I use Sanity as an admin dashboard, and database. Sanity is basically a database that also gives you a really clean and customizable dashboard interface automatically. I used to use Firebase, but it didn't work out so well when I wanted to pass off control to someone who wasn't tech savvy.

    #CMS #API Tools #Realtime Backend / API 55 social mentions

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    A JavaScript library for building user interfaces
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    React: UI framework, used by both Next.js and Sanity. Since React is the most popular UI framework at the moment, you'll have a pretty easy time finding open source projects you can leverage, which will save you a ton of time.

    #Javascript UI Libraries #JS Library #JavaScript Framework 773 social mentions

  9. A small framework for server-rendered universal JavaScript apps
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    Next.js: I build the user dashboard, and APIs in Next.js. I integrate Outseta to gate the dashboard content, and query data from Sanity for things like API keys, user data, or whatever else your app might need.

    #Developer Tools #Web Framework #JavaScript Framework 908 social mentions

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    An all-in-one solution to sell your work and grow your audience.
    Gumroad: I use Gumroad instead of Outseta at times. It's great for when you have simpler products like e-books or source code, and don't need a whole dashboard for your customers.

    #eCommerce #eCommerce Platform #eCommerce Tools 109 social mentions

  11. Automate your workflow from idea to production
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    GitHub: Used for source code management, and also scheduling tasks and long-running workflows with GitHub Actions.

    #DevOps Tools #Continuous Integration #Developer Tools 271 social mentions

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    Originally founded as a project to simplify sharing code, GitHub has grown into an application used by over a million people to store over two million code repositories, making GitHub the largest code host in the world.
    Pricing:
    GitHub: Used for source code management, and also scheduling tasks and long-running workflows with GitHub Actions.

    #Code Collaboration #Git #Version Control 2031 social mentions

  13. Easy to maintain open source documentation websites
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    Docusaurus: If the product is technical, I write the documentation in markdown, and generate a docs site with Docusaurus. If the product is not technical, and I don't need things like syntax highlighting, I just put the docs in the Webflow site.

    #Documentation #Documentation As A Service & Tools #Static Site Generators 191 social mentions

  14. Cloud Video Management Solution, Made For & By Developers
    Cloudinary: You can upload images to Sanity, but Cloudinary can be cheaper at high volume if you have lots of user-generated images.

    #Developer Tools #Javascript UI Libraries #Runtime 112 social mentions

  15. Cloudflare is a global network designed to make everything you connect to the Internet secure, private, fast, and reliable.

    #CDN #Cloud Computing #Content Distribution 93 social mentions

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