Tekyous.dev VS StackSwap

Tekyous.dev's answer

No matter if it's web application, automation or data pipeline, exactly the same results can be achieved with many different tools. And this abundance of options for building projects can be staggering and intimidating at the same time , leading to not always the best choice of tools, or a fear of missing out by not following new releases every week.

And that was the reason to build Tekyous - a single place to discover and compare developer tooling without the noise, and to visually plan a stack before committing to it.

StackSwap's answer:

I spent 10 years in B2B SaaS sales — BDR through Head of Revenue — selling into hundreds of mid-market and enterprise teams. I watched companies pay six figures a year for two competing data enrichment tools because nobody owned the audit and nobody wanted to fight the renewal motion.

StackSwap is the tool I would've hated to face as a vendor on the renewal call: free, fast, takes the buyer's side, names overlap by name. The category I sold in for a decade gets auditable.

Tekyous.dev's answer

To combine the informational, visual and contextual layers in one place.

StackSwap's answer:

Two reasons:

1. Speed. SaaS Management Platforms take 2-6 weeks to onboard and another 30-60 days to surface useful insights. StackSwap takes 60 seconds. Different product class.

2. Cost. SMP contracts start around $20k/yr. The free Stackscan covers most of what a founder or RevOps lead needs to start the consolidation conversation.

Honest take: if you're already running an SMP and getting value, keep it. StackSwap is the faster diagnostic, not the replacement. If you're shopping the SMP category, run StackSwap first to see what you actually need before sitting through five demos.

Tekyous.dev's answer

Primarily developers and founders who need to make tool decisions. That includes:

• Full-stack engineers evaluating frameworks, databases, or hosting options
• AI and ML engineers building inference pipelines or LLM-backed applications
• Data engineers and analysts designing data infrastructure
• Indie hackers and technical founders planning an MVP stack
• Anyone who has ever felt paralysed by the number of options in the modern developer tooling landscape

But tekyous is not limited to a purely technical audience. The catalogue includes AI and no-code tools alongside traditional developer tooling — making it a useful starting point for non-technical founders who want to understand the modern technology landscape. The interactivity of the platform, paired with the learning resources linked to each tool, can make the tech world feel more approachable.

StackSwap's answer:

B2B SaaS founders, RevOps leads, and Heads of Sales / Marketing / Revenue at companies in the 10-200 employee range — typically post-seed, pre-Series-B — where the GTM stack has grown organically and nobody owns the audit. Common trigger: a board meeting where someone asks "are we paying for tools we don't use?"

Also: buyers evaluating the SaaS spend management category who want a directional read before sitting through enterprise sales cycles.

Tekyous.dev's answer

• PostgreSQL
• FastAPI
• Vue.js
• Vue Flow

StackSwap's answer:

Next.js 14 (App Router) on Vercel, TypeScript, Supabase (Postgres + Auth + Storage), Stripe for billing, Anthropic's Claude API for LLM-assisted analysis, Sentry for observability.

Built deliberately on a thin stack — the irony of running a tool-overlap audit on 30 SaaS subscriptions wasn't lost on me.

Tekyous.dev's answer

Tekyous combines two things that have always been separate:

• Tools directories list and compare tools - they may also show alternatives. But you just browse; there are no recommendations on how to combine tools, no visual layer, no interactivity. It's purely informational.
• Diagram tools let you draw architecture, but they know nothing about the tools themselves - compatibility, trade-offs, or what pairs well with what. It's purely visual.

Tekyous adds third layer - contextual - by putting the tools on the canvas and offering real-time recommendations.

StackSwap's answer:

Most SaaS spend tools — Vendr, Zylo, Productiv, BetterCloud — require integrations with billing, SSO, or HRIS before they tell you anything. They're heavyweight onboarded platforms. StackSwap is the opposite: drop in your tool list, get a structured audit in ~60 seconds, no integration. Overlap surfaced by category, with keep / replace / remove calls. It's the diagnostic step before the platform commitment, not a replacement for it.