Guide · Beginner · 15 min
Choosing a SaaS stack you can maintain alone
How to choose the framework, database and hosting for a small SaaS on the basis of maintenance, not novelty.
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Inside this guide
- The stack that ships a SaaS is the one you can debug at midnight. This guide sets out the questions that matter for a small team choosing a framework, a database and hosting, and the answers that hold up two years in.
- Framework: the one you already know
- Database: Postgres unless you can say why not
- Hosting: deploy from git, keep a preview per branch
- The boring list
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