The Indie Developer's Budget Tech Stack

Developer's/Entrepreneur's Budget Stack Sharing the latest 2025 edition of the budget stack for independent developers going global: Servers: Render, Patr.Cloud, Glitch, Back4app, koyeb Frontend Hosting: GitHub Pages, Vercel, Cloudflare Pages, Netlify Databases: Neon, Supabase, Cloudflare D1, SQLPub, Xata Domains: Freedomain Log Management: Axiom, Bugfender UI Design: Figma, Penpot, iconfont, Draw.io, Canva Code Hosting: Github, Gitlab, Gitee, Bitbucket Redis: Upstash AI Coding: Tongyi Lingma, ChatGPT, Deepseek, Google Gemini Code Assist, Trae User Behavior Analytics: Clarity, Google Analytics, dwh.dev, logspot, Umami SEO: Google Search Console, Ahrefs Webmaster Tools, Google Trends Application Monitoring: Sentry, New Relic, Pingmeter Documentation/Office: Feishu, Yuque, Notion Email Services: Yandex Mail, Alibaba Cloud Mail, Tencent Enterprise Mail, Mailgun Object Storage: Qiniu Cloud, Cloudflare R2 CDN: Netlify, Cloudflare, Qiniu Cloud CDN 🚀 Independent developers often need to experiment multiple times before finding the right way to make money. The following services and tools help you start up at low cost, with most services being free: Server & MySQL Database: supabase (free) Frontend Hosting: Vercel (free) Domain Purchase: porkbun AI Coding: Cursor (approx. 15 RMB/month on Taobao) Logging: Axiom (free) Design: V0 (use free tier) / Figma (free) Code: GitHub (free) Redis: Upstash (pay as you go, 100k commands/$0.2) User Behavior Analytics: MS Clarity (permanently free) SEO: semrush (approx. 12 RMB/month on Taobao), ahrefs (free for checking DR) Google Trends: free Error Monitoring: Sentry (free) Task Management: Notion/Feishu Multi-dimensional Tables (free) Email Service: Feishu (free) Analytics: Google Analytics (free), Umami (free) Transactional Emails: resend (3,000 emails / mo, 100 emails / day) Storage: Cloudflare R2 (free) Auth: supabase #independentdevelopment #ai #cursor #goingglobal

References

1. Supabase Official Website — The free database + Auth + storage solution from the list, an open-source Postgres development platform.
2. Vercel Official Website — The frontend hosting solution from the list, its free tier is suitable for independent developers launching an MVP.
3. Upstash Official Website — The Serverless Redis service from the list, pay-as-you-go (approx. $0.2 for 100k commands).
4. Resend Official Website — The transactional email service from the list, with a free tier of 3000 emails per month.
5. Microsoft Clarity Official Website — The user behavior analytics tool from the list, heatmaps + session recording are permanently free.