My stack

Dev

• PHP – usually my go-to. I don’t particularly like frameworks (I absolutely hate Laravel), nor I like OOP.

• Bulma – a simple CSS framework. I can’t stress enough how good this is. It lets me build things faaast. I love it.

• DigitalOcean – for servers. They are very good and I’m in the process of migrating everything there. They have a feature that allows you to scale (down or up) your VM quickly. For fun products and projects, I use the much cheaper scaleway.com

• Git – for version control

• Buddy, DeployHQ and/or Deployer – to automate deploys

• RollBar – for error tracking (cheap solutions include Zabbix and/or Greylog)

• CloudFlare – for dos protection

• Hyperping – to monitor the health of my sites (ping) but also cron management

• Sqreen – for web security

• Namecheap – for domain names

• Datatables or FooTable – for tables!

Marketing

• Stripe – to collect payments. I would like to use Paypal, but their API sucks.

• tawk.to – It’s a simple in-app chat but I like this tool a lot. Seeing people coming and browsing your website is incomparable.

• Hotjar and Google Analytics – for insights

• Mailgun – for transactional emails, in conjunction with Cerberus for responsive templates

• Mailchimp and/or Mautic for marketing emails (the second one is self-hosted and open source)

• Trello – for public roadmaps and user feedback

• Headway – for changelogs

Misc

• Xolo – for accounting

• Profitwell – I build things in the open and this tool helps me calculating my MRR, plus I use it for dunning emails

• Rebrandly – link shortening

• Logodust – for easy copy & paste logos (no need to overcomplicate things, especially in the beginning)

• Canva – for graphics

• Iubenda – for legal services, privacy and cookie policies

• GetMagic – for VAs