What's your favorite stack to quickly deploy a full stack app for $0?

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I personally am partial to a firebase-based stack, but I’m curious what everyone else uses? DB, backend, frontend, auth, hosting.

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For $0? A blank text file.

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Thayer said:
For $0? A blank text file.

I call this bug-free development.

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Winslow said:

Thayer said:
For $0? A blank text file.

I call this bug-free development.

Coming soon: features only.

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Home hosted windows 3.1 server.

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Bevin said:
Home hosted windows 3.1 server.

Assuming you steal electricity, internet connection and licenses :joy:.

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Bevin said:
Home hosted windows 3.1 server.

What about Android server?

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My personal favorite for quick & free development:

  • Supabase/Firebase for Auth, DB, Storage
  • NextJs for front and back end
  • Vercel for hosting.
    Also,
  • Tailwind & ShadCn for quick components and styling
  • PayloadCMS for a free, easy setup CMS if you need.
    Obviously you would need to pay in order to scale up though.
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@Bailey
I second this, it’s good advice.

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@Bailey
I’ve built a few apps for various charities using a stack like this; they’ve been running for years. Just have to bump dependencies every 3-6 months to stop things from going stale.

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Kai said:
@Bailey
I’ve built a few apps for various charities using a stack like this; they’ve been running for years. Just have to bump dependencies every 3-6 months to stop things from going stale.

Yo, that’s amazing! How did you get in touch with them?

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@Bailey
Where are you hosting Payload for free? Also Vercel?

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@Bailey
Preach.
Can also use Vercel’s Prisma ORM setup, but Supabase is so much faster, and you get auth and a pre-scaffolded app for free.

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@Bailey
I like this. I would also add that MongoDB has a very nice free tier, as does Cloudflare.

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Next.js (full stack), xata.io (Postgres DB), StackAuth (open source alternative to Auth0/Clerk), Hetzner + Coolify (self-hosting) or Vercel/Render (managed hosting).

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React built with Vite, or Flutter, Supabase and Cloudflare.

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Nuxt 3 on Cloudflare Pages.

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Ubuntu server with Ansible and GitHub Actions.
Run it locally.
Fk Windows. Windows is shit.

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Supabase + Cloudflare Pages :slight_smile:

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Render for hosting + Neon for DB.