Stacks by use case

Don’t pick tools. Pick a stack.

Assembling software one tool at a time is slow and easy to get wrong. These are complete, opinionated stacks for a specific kind of business, every tool chosen to work with the others.

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Curated stacks

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Curated, battle-tested software blueprints optimized for your exact role and budget.

Autonomous AI Agent Swarm

Target: $35 - $45/mo

Model Context Protocol (MCP), frontier reasoning, DeepSeek swarms, and dual-layer vector memory.

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Claude

Free

Developers, researchers, and writers who need high-quality code generation, long-document analysis, and natural prose that sounds human without editing

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DeepSeek

$0/mo ($0.14/M tokens)

Cost-sensitive engineering teams, automated code generation pipelines, and high-volume agent swarms.

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Supabase

$0/mo

Full stack developers building data-intensive applications on Postgres.

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n8n

$0/mo

Technical teams, developers, and power users who need complete data sovereignty and complex conditional logic without paying per-task premiums.

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Cursor

Free

Software developers, engineers, and tech startups who want an AI-native IDE with repository-wide context indexing, terminal execution, and multi-file editing capabilities

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PostHog

$0/mo

Engineering-led startups needing unified product data and feature flags.

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AI Engineers, Agent Builders & System Architects

The Autonomous AI Agent & MCP Stack

From
$0/mo

Model Context Protocol (MCP), dual-layer vector memory, multi-agent swarms, and token guardrails.

ClaudeDeepSeek logoDeepSeekSupabase logoSupabasen8n logon8nCursorPostHog logoPostHog
From $45/moSee the stack
AI Agency Founders & Automation Engineers

The AI Automation Agency Stack

From
$34/mo

Visual multi-agent workflows, frontier LLM reasoning, vector memory, and voice synthesis under $75/mo.

n8n logon8nClaudeSupabase logoSupabaseCursorTally logoTallyElevenLabs logoElevenLabs
Around $75/moSee the stack
1-Person AI Businesses & Solo Hackers

The AI Solopreneur Stack

From
$19/mo

Ship, monetize, and scale a software business as a solo founder with zero employees.

CursorClaudeSupabase logoSupabaseVercel logoVercelPlausible Analytics logoPlausible AnalyticsNotion logoNotion
Under $60/moSee the stack
SaaS Builders & Startup Engineers

The Full-Stack AI SaaS Stack

From
$10/mo

Next.js 15, PostgreSQL, edge CI/CD, product telemetry, and Stripe recurring billing.

Supabase logoSupabaseVercel logoVercelCursorLinear logoLinearPostHog logoPostHogStripe logoStripe
Under $75/moSee the stack
One-person business

The Solopreneur Stack

From
$68/mo

Run the whole company from a single laptop, without paying for seats you will never fill.

Notion logoNotionKit logoKitPipedrive logoPipedriveFreshBooks logoFreshBooks
Under $60/moSee the stack
Writers & audience builders

The Creator Stack

From
$173/mo

Research what to publish, write it faster, and turn readers into an owned audience.

Surfer SEO logoSurfer SEOJasper logoJasperKit logoKit
Around $170/moSee the stack
Lean marketing teams

The Growth Stack

From
$161/mo

SEO, lifecycle email, and the project board that keeps it all shipping on time.

Semrush logoSemrushActiveCampaign logoActiveCampaignClickUp logoClickUp
Around $230/moSee the stack
Client services teams

The Agency Stack

From
$197/mo

Scale billable work, keep pipelines full, and reconcile the books without the chaos.

Ahrefs logoAhrefsAsana logoAsanaHubSpot CRM logoHubSpot CRMQuickBooks Online logoQuickBooks Online
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Startups under $100/mo

The Bootstrapped Startup Stack

From
$60/mo

Everything a pre-revenue team needs to find demand and close it, for less than one enterprise seat.

Notion logoNotionWritesonic logoWritesonicPipedrive logoPipedriveHubSpot CRM logoHubSpot CRM
Under $100/moSee the stack
Independent professionals

The Freelancer Stack

From
$43/mo

Land the work, deliver it cleanly, and get paid on time, without an ops team.

Notion logoNotionPipedrive logoPipedriveFreshBooks logoFreshBooks
Under $50/moSee the stack
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