Generally this is a list of tools and platforms that can help in creating a new project, a form of "indie hacker toolbox". You can easily build a whole product on pre-exsisting SaaS if money isn't an obstacle, but for side projects and indie-hackers, it usually is. When trying out new ideas it's important that tools are free (or at least cheap), either initially or perhaps forever in a limited pricing tier. These used to live in a notepad somewhere, but now they're here in the hope that they might also help someone else. Feel free to add to this list in a PR
- https://www.kampsite.co/ - Feature Suggestions from customers with a free tier available
- https://vercel.com (formerly zeit) - Really great but slightly vague pricing model, you can navigate their pricing and stay on the free tier for quite a while. Great for hosting static sites, serverless functions etc. Lighthouse score performs better than netlify
- https://netlify.com - Great for static projects, forms, serverless functions etc. In my opinion it has a better UX than vercel, but lighthouse performance score is lower on netlify than vercel. I'm not sure if that impacts SEO, but it might.
- https://prismic.io/ - Really nice and simply headless cms with free pricing options
- https://userbase.com/ - Cheap and easy user management
- https://metomic.io/ - (no longer has a cookie widget) Great tool for handling cookie consent. It's a bit fiddly trying to rescan your website when you add a new script, but other than that it's nice
- https://www.axeptio.eu/en/home (has a nice cookie widget)
- https://undraw.co/ - Cool free graphics for most things if you like the design language
- https://ethereal.email/ - Free test tool for transactional email
- https://insomnia.rest/ - Alternative to Postman and for testing
- https://capacitorjs.com/docs/cli - Web Apps to Native Apps (Also works with svelte)
- https://inertiajs.com/ - PHP backend with Vue/Svelte/React where the controller is on the backend
- https://github.com/ianstormtaylor/slate - A WYSIWYG that works
- https://onelook.com/ - Helps with naming if you need to complete a word search for "yourword* to see matches and suffixes
- https://github.com/ai/nanoid - Nano ID, UUID alternative
- https://planetscale.com - PlanetScale, free 10GB MySQL DB Hosted w. backup
- https://www.looker.com - BI Tool with Embedded options
- Save time in your NodeJS dev https://softwareontheroad.com/nodejs-scalability-issues/#assets (AgendaJS, etc)
- https://www.npmjs.com/package/ajv - For input validation
- https://www.npmjs.com/package/zod - Some say this is the god of JS/TS validation