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The 5 indie-hacker tools we’d
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From 326 hand-picked resources in the vault. These are the ones that genuinely surprised us.

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SSupabase Free preview
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Postgres + auth + storage + edge functions free up to 500MB DB and 5GB bandwidth. Most $0 → $10K MRR indie SaaS run their entire backend here.
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Unlimited bandwidth, DDoS protection, edge cache, Workers — all free forever. The default CDN/proxy for every indie launch on Hacker News.
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Resend Free
3,000 emails/month, 100/day free. Developer-first transactional email that actually has a sane API. Replaces SendGrid + Postmark for early-stage projects.
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5 picks from the vault

CCarrd preview
01 / 05
Carrd
Single-page sites. $19 lifetime. Powers half of Twitter.
Indie founders' favorite landing-page builder: visual editor, custom domain, forms, lifetime license at $19/year for Pro. Faster than Webflow, simpler than Framer.
Landing pages · $0 + $19/yr 🔓 Unlock vault
PPlausible Analytics preview
02 / 05
Plausible Analytics
Google Analytics killer. Privacy-friendly. No cookie banner.
Lightweight, GDPR-compliant analytics with a single readable dashboard. Open source, ~$9/mo for indie sites — replaces GA4's bloated interface entirely.
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LLemon Squeezy preview
03 / 05
Lemon Squeezy
Stripe for digital products. Handles every global tax.
Merchant-of-record platform: collects VAT/GST automatically across every country, sends digital downloads, manages subs, handles refunds. The 'I just want to sell stuff' button.
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PPocketbase preview
04 / 05
Pocketbase
Firebase in a single 30MB file. Self-host on a $5 VPS.
Open-source backend bundling auth, DB, file storage, realtime sub, admin UI — into one Go binary. Deploy on any $5 droplet. Yours forever, zero recurring cost.
Backend · Free / Self-host 🔓 Unlock vault
LLoops preview
05 / 05
Loops
The transactional + marketing email tool indie SaaS actually likes.
Loops handles welcome series, magic links, marketing broadcasts in one interface — the API everyone migrates to from Postmark + Customer.io stacks.
Email · Free up to 1K 🔓 Unlock vault
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