MaiVerse Indie Hacker Stack

Why we use it — Traffic and keyword research is the first filter for a new product. SiteData helps us read demand before writing a line of code.

Best for — Demand validation, competitor research and growth analysis before and after launch.

Why we use it — The boring parts of a SaaS — accounts, billing, credits, i18n — should not be the reason a product stalls. ShipAny compresses that setup so the product work can start immediately.

Best for — Rapidly shipping AI SaaS products with production-ready billing and auth.

Why we use it — One framework for content, product pages and interactive apps. Fast, typed and deployable almost anywhere.

Best for — Web products that need both strong SEO surfaces and real application logic.

Why we use it — Types keep small teams moving fast across many small products without breaking each other.

Best for — Any codebase that will outlive its first week.

Why we use it — Provider flexibility is a feature. OpenRouter lets products switch and compare models without re-plumbing the app.

Best for — Products that need to route across model providers and stay provider-agnostic.

Why we use it — Strong multimodal and long-context capabilities at competitive pricing — a serious option for content and analysis workflows.

Best for — Multimodal generation, long documents and cost-sensitive workloads.

Why we use it — Excellent instruction-following and writing quality for agent and content-heavy products.

Best for — Agents, structured reasoning and long-context analysis.

Why we use it — A fast path to running and scaling open image, video and audio models without GPU ops.

Best for — Image, video and audio generation at product scale.

Why we use it — Low-latency media generation APIs that keep creative products feeling immediate.

Best for — Latency-sensitive image and video generation.

Why we use it — AI at the edge: gateway observability, cost control and inference close to users, inside the same platform as our infrastructure.

Best for — Edge AI, gateway routing, cost and usage control.

Why we use it — The global edge layer: fast delivery, DDoS protection, DNS and workers for small utility services.

Best for — Global delivery, DNS, security and small edge services.

Why we use it — Preview deploys and global static rendering make shipping a website or web app a non-event.

Best for — Next.js and frontend deployment with instant previews.

Why we use it — A full backend on Postgres without standing up servers — ideal for the first version of a product.

Best for — Postgres, auth and storage for new products.

Why we use it — Branching Postgres fits the way we build: spin up a database per experiment, merge when it works.

Best for — Serverless Postgres and per-branch database workflows.

Why we use it — The default answer for global checkout and subscriptions when a product manages its own billing.

Best for — Direct checkout, subscriptions and global card payments.

Why we use it — Merchant-of-record handling for global tax and compliance lets a small studio sell worldwide without a tax department.

Best for — Global SaaS sales where merchant-of-record makes sense.

Why we use it — A lightweight checkout option for small products that need to start selling in minutes.

Best for — Quick checkout for small digital products.

Why we use it — Coverage in markets where card penetration is lower; a standard second option at checkout.

Best for — Alternative payment coverage in international markets.

Why we use it — The ground truth for how products are found. Queries tell us what to build and what to write.

Best for — Search visibility and content direction.

Why we use it — Simple, honest analytics without heavy scripts — enough signal to run products, not enough noise to slow them.

Best for — Privacy-friendly product analytics.

Why we use it — When we need to know how users actually move through a product — funnels and experiments included.

Best for — Deep product analytics and experimentation.

Why we use it — Reliable transactional email with a developer-friendly API for onboarding and product updates.

Best for — Transactional email and product communication.