The Free-Tools-Only Stack (For Bootstrappers)
A working stack that costs $0/month until you have real revenue.
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If you're bootstrapping, here's the working stack with $0 monthly fees until you cross usage thresholds.
Hosting & data
- Vercel free tier — fine until ~1M requests/month.
- Supabase free tier — 500MB DB, plenty for first 1k users.
- Cloudflare free — DNS, CDN, R2 has a generous free tier.
Comms & docs
- Discord for community (free).
- Notion personal plan (free).
- Cal.com open source (free if self-hosted).
- Resend free tier — 100 emails/day.
Analytics
- Umami self-hosted on Vercel (free).
Code & docs
- GitHub free private repos.
- Loom free for short videos.
When to start paying
When the free tier limits start slowing your business — usually around 100-300 paying customers. Then upgrade only the bottleneck, not everything.
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