Guides

What is the best database for a SaaS app?

Twelve databases compared on what they cost, what the free tier really gives you, and how hard each one is to leave. Prices read from the vendors' own pages.

Databases

What is the best database for an API or backend service?

A service that idles most of the day wants different things from an app database. Twelve compared on idle cost, cold starts and how they behave at the edge.

Databases

What is the best privacy-first alternative to Google Analytics?

Nine cookieless analytics tools compared on cost, whether you can self-host, and which ones have a free tier at all. Prices read from vendor pages.

Data Analytics

What is the best free analytics tool?

Which analytics tools have a real free tier rather than a trial, what each one caps, and where the limit actually bites. Eighteen compared.

Data Analytics

What is the best free social media scheduler?

Which schedulers have a real free plan, how many channels each one gives you, and which quietly leave X out. Fourteen compared, prices checked.

Post Scheduling

What is the best SEO tool under $50 a month?

Real search volume and backlink data without a suite subscription. Five SEO tools compared on price, billing terms and what each one is actually for.

SEO

What is the best newsletter platform for a solo founder?

Fifteen email tools compared on how far the free tier goes and what it costs the day you outgrow it. The second number is the one that matters.

Email Marketing

What is the best transactional email API?

Password resets and receipts want an API, not a campaign builder. Four tools compared on free sending limits, docs and whether marketing email is included.

Email Marketing

What is the best affiliate software for a SaaS?

Five affiliate and referral platforms compared on monthly cost, which payment processors they support natively, and what they charge as you grow.

Referral Programmes