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Cloud Computing Online Payments Database Management

TablePlus Landing Page
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TablePlus

Easily edit database data and structure
Pricing:
- Open Source
There are many great tools that allow you to build out, manage and maintain databases infrastructure, starting from the CLI right up to tools like TablePlus (Highly recommended). But Stripe’s Dashboard presents all datapoints upfront and centre, which can be accessible, and almost fully mutable from any device, even on the go with the Stripe iOS app and can be easily shared across teams without having to create special permissions.

#Database Management #Databases #MySQL Tools 56 social mentions
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Paddle

The Paddle Revenue Delivery Platform for B2B SaaS companies powers growth across acquisition, renewals and expansion.
Pricing:
- Open Source
With this, I experimented with replacing the existing query to store user data within my Postgres database and instead, just create a customer object at the start of the user signup journey. This allowed me to easily store the name and email address, along with additional metadata such as the User ID/Organization ID, from the respective 3rd party service amongst a few other minor reference only data points. The only thing other than user data I was storing within a Postgres DB, was storing encrypted license key information, something unfortunately Stripe does not have a tool for. To go slightly off-topic, this is why Paddle (5% + $0.50 per transaction) is winning people like myself (people building desktop apps) over as all of that is taken care of, and to my knowledge, they are the only company doing License Management. Selfishly, as I do not like Paddle, I hope Stripe considers looking into adding support for Licence Management.

#Online Payments #Payment Platform #eCommerce 29 social mentions
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Heroku

Agile deployment platform for Ruby, Node.js, Clojure, Java, Python, and Scala. Setup takes only minutes and deploys are instant through git. Leave tedious server maintenance to Heroku and focus on your code.

Usually, when I start on a new venture, big or small, my tech stack is almost always the same. I often explore slightly new technologies and frameworks along the way. But I never stray far away from Vanilla JS, PHP (please don’t judge me), Postgres for the database and Heroku for hosting. Using these allows me to get up and running quickly, which enables me, in theory, to build quick and fail fast - following the mantra of all good Indie Hackers.

#Cloud Computing #Cloud Hosting #VPS 71 social mentions