Awesome Startup Stack

Curated list of technologies for your next startup

Contents

• Languages
  • JavaScript based
  • JVM based
• Frameworks
  • Web backend
  • Web frontend
  • Web design
  • Templates
  • DevOps
  • Mobile apps
• Self-hosted
  • Cluster management
  • Automation
  • Databases
• SaaS
  • Cloud computing platforms
  • Managed container system
  • Serverless processing
  • Static hosting
  • Hosted databases
  • Forms
  • Storage
  • Mail API
  • Communication API
  • Monitoring
  • Marketing
  • Payments
  • App builders
• No code
  • No code web
  • No code apps
  • eCommerce
  • No code marketing
  • Live chat
• IDEs and Editors
• Organization
• Technologies directories
• Motivation
• Contribute
• License

Languages

• Python - Popular for scripting, web backend and machine learning.
• Ruby - Scripting and web backend.
• C# - Microsoft programming language.
• F# - Funtional language for the .NET Framework.
• Elixir - Erlang VM based, functional, paralell programming, scalable, fault tolerant.
• PHP - Used mostly in web backend.
• Hack - PHP based, but safer and faster.

JavaScript based

• JavaScript
• Node.js - JavaScript runtime for backend and scripting.
• Elm - Webapps.
• PureScript - A strongly-typed functional programming language that compiles to JavaScript.

JVM based

• Java - Full stack, enterprise.
• Groovy
• Kotlin

Frameworks

Web backend

• Ruby on Rails - Ruby web MVC (model-view-controller) framework.
• Django - High-level Python web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design.
• Flask - Microframework for Python.
• Starlette - lightweight ASGI framework/toolkit, which is ideal for building high performance asyncio services.
• Laravel - PHP framework.
• Play - For Java & Scala.
• Grails - Groovy framework on top of Spring Boot.
• WebSharper - Framework and toolset for developing web/mobile applications and web services entirely in C# or F#.
• Phoenix - Elixir web framework, can handle millions of connections.
• Sails - Node.js MVC framework.
• Hapi - Node.js framework.
• Vapor - Swift for web backend.
• Micronaut - JVM based full-stack framework for microservice applications.
• Lumie - Lightweight module to set up a scalable controllers architecture for Node.js projects.
• Zappa - Easy build and deploy server-less Python applications on AWS Lambda + API Gateway and others.
• Sparta - Framework that transforms a standard Go application into a self-deploying AWS Lambda powered service.
• The Go Cloud Project - Allow application developers to seamlessly deploy cloud applications on any combination of cloud providers.
• fog.io - Ruby cloud services library.
• Socket.io - Real-time engine.

Web frontend

• jQuery - Basic JavaScript library.
• Angular - Google's framework for web & mobile apps written in Typescript.
• React - Facebook's JavaScript library for building user interfaces.
• Vue.js - From simple to full charged web apps.
• Svelte - Component framework that compiles to JavaScript. Faster, reactive, with less code.
• AWS Amplify - JavaScript library for application development using cloud services.
• GatsbyJS - Free and open source framework based on React that helps developers build blazing fast websites and apps.
• Next.js - Lightweight framework for static and server‑rendered applications.
• Nuxt.js - The same than Next.js but with Vue.js.
• Mithril.js - Modern, small and fast client-side JavaScript framework for building Single Page Applications.

Web design

• Bootstrap - Twitter's simple HTML styling for web app prototyping.
• Bulma - CSS framework.
• Foundation - Responsive frontend framework for rapid development.
• Tailwind - A utility-first CSS framework for rapid UI development.
• Sematic UI - A lightweight, responsive and modern CSS framework.
• Spectre.css
• Pure.css - Small, responsive CSS modules.
• Ant Design - React UI library with high quality components for building rich, interactive user interfaces.
• Rebass - Library of highly-composable, primitive UI components for React.
• Skeleton - Simple, responsive boilerplate.
• Tachyons - Fast loading, highly readable, and 100% responsive interfaces with as little css as possible.
• Silver - 15 lines CSS grid system.

Desktop

• Electron - Desktop applications using Node.js and Chromium.

Templates

• Bullet Train - SaaS template in Ruby on Rails.
• Skaffolder - Create fully prototype within minutes.
• Laravel Spark
• SaaS Pegasus - A Django-Powered SaaS template.
• Hackaton Starter - A kickstarter for Node.js applications.
• electron-react-boilerplate Cross-platform desktop apps using Electron and React.
• Pup - Based on React, Bootstrap, Font Awesome and Meteor.
• Gravity - Node.js SaaS boilerplate with React UI.

DevOps

• Fabric - Fabric is Python library & cli designed to execute shell commands remotely over SSH.
• deliver - Pure bash deployment tool with customisable strategies.
• Kappa - cli that makes it easier to deploy, update, and test functions for AWS Lambda.
• Serverless - Toolkit for deploying and operating serverless architectures, using services, like AWS Lambda, Google Cloud Functions, and more.

Mobile apps

• React Native - Native apps with JavaScript.
• Flutter - Google’s mobile app SDK for native interfaces on iOS and Android, based on Dart.
• NativeScript - Native apps with Angular, Vue.js, TypeScript or JavaScript.

Self-hosted

Cluster management

• Kubernetes - Open source container-orchestration system for automating application deployment.

Automation

• Jenkins - Open source automation server, for building and deployment.

Databases

• PostgreSQL
• MongoDB
• Redis - In-memory data store for cache and message broker.
• ElasticSearch
• RethinkDB - Realtime results to queries, ideal for multi concurrent users apps, multiplayer games, realtime analytics,…
• OrientDB - Multi-model database: graph, relational, document & key/value.

SaaS

Cloud computing platforms

• DigitalOcean
• AWS
• Google Cloud
• Azure
• DNSimple - DNS hosting with powerful API.

Managed container system

• Heroku
• Hyper.sh - Docker Swarm or Kubernetes flavors.

Serverless processing

• Firebase - From Google: database, authentication, storage,…
• Webtask - HTTP endpoints written with Node.js.
• Netlify - Automate deployment, AWS Lambda management, user signups and logins, forms.
• StdLib
• Zeit - Easy deployments with Now.
• Lobe - Deep Learning made simple.
• Nuclio - Serverless platform for automated Data Science.
• WayScript - Scripting platform for developers.

Static hosting

• surge.sh - Static web publishing for Front-End Developers.

Authentication

• Auth0 - Authentication and authorization for web and apps.

Hosted databases

• Bonsai - Escalable ElasticSearch.
• GraphCool - GraphQL backend.

Forms

• Formspark - Backend for HTML forms.

Storage

• Cloudinary - Image and video on-the-fly manipulations.

Mail API

• Forward Email - Email API, supports webhooks, free and privacy-focused email service.
• MailGun - Send, receive and track emails.
• SendGrid - Email API and marketing platform.
• SparkPost

Communication API

• Stream - Scalable feeds, activity streams & chat.

Monitoring

• Segment - Analytics API and customer data platform that integrates 200 different data providers.
• PaperTrail - Logs.
• Datadog - Full-stack monitoring and analytics.
• UptimeRobot - Downtime notifications.
• Rollbar - Real-time error alerting & debugging tools.

Marketing

• SimpleSplit - Run AB tests using only HTML.

Payments

• Servicebot - Create pricing pages, sign-up forms, and manage your subscriptions with no coding. You can also try the open source version.
• Stripe
• Paddle
• Chargebee

App builders

• Clay
• Anvil - Web apps using Python.

No code

No code web

• Wix
• SquareSpace
• Ghost - Publishing platform.
• WordPress
• Discourse - Platform for community discussion.

No code landing page

• Landen - Design landing pages.
• Carrd - Responsive landing pages.
• Unicorn Platform - Build landing page.
• Versoly - Build SaaS Website.
• Hackr - Landing page with split testing and conversion tracking in minutes.

No code apps

• Bubble - App builder.
• Adalo - Web and mobile apps.
• Softr - Responsive web apps.
• Boundless - Web apps.
• Mason - Build, design, and deploy fully functional front-end solutions.
• Thunkable - Mobile app builder for Android and iOS.
• Bildr - Websites and web apps.
• sheet2site - Create websites from Google Sheets.
• table2site - Create websites using Airtable as backend.
• Glide - Create apps from Google Sheets.
• Zapier - Automated workflows.
• Socionity - Build mobile apps to sell courses, videos, podcasts,...
• cron-job - Scheduled execution of websites and scripts.
• Typeform - Forms, Stripe integration.
• BuildBox - Build mobile games with no code.
• Asteroid - Augmented reality dev tool for creating 3D apps that react to their environment.

eCommerce

• Shopify
• Sharetribe - Create marketplace sites. Free software with commercial hosted version.
• Gumroad - Simple setup.
• Plasso Storefront - Sell subscriptions, physical and digital goods, charge for services, accept donations, sell pre-orders and more.
• Wirize - Accept card payments online.
• DPD - Sell digital content simply copying & pasting buttons on any web, even with a cart system and scheduled content with subscription.
• Memberful - To sell memberships, for Stripe, WordPress and MailChimp.

No code marketing

• MailChimp - Email marketing.
• Buffer - Social media posts scheduler.

Live chat

• Crisp - Live chat.
• Drift - Conversational marketing platform.
• collect.chat - Interactive chatbot for collecting data from visitors.

IDEs and Editors

• Atom - From GitHub, free & libre.
• VisualStudio - From Microsoft, free.
• Sublime
• CodeSandbox - Online editor that helps you create web applications, from prototype to deployment.
• Light Table - IDE with powerful debug capabilities, for Clojure, JavaScript/HTML/CSS and Python.
• Vim
• Emacs
  • Evil mode - Extensible vi layer for Emacs.
• Slap - Like Sublime but for the console.

Organization

• Notion - Documentation, kanban, spreadsheets.
• Zenkit - Lists, spreadsheets, kanban, mind maps.
• Workflowy - Linked lists.
• CodeGiant - Issue tracker, code repositories, documentation, continuous integration.
• Monday
• Trello
• ClickUp
• Agantty - Free gantt chart.
• GitHub
• GitLab - Planning, code repositories, CI/CD pipelines.
• Taskade - Structured task lists, notes, kanban, mind maps, and video chat.
• Retool - Builder for custom internal tools using common building blocks and templates.

Technologies directories

• Todo-Backend - Projects to showcase different backend tech stacks.
• Stackshare - Look for stacks of other companies, and compare technologies.
• Nocode - No code tech.
• Indie Hackers - Tech Stack for 2018 - What tech stacks are indie hackers using for their apps, and why.
• YCombinator.dev - Y Combinator resources for developers.
• 100+ No Code Resources

Motivation

• Indie Hackers
• Work in Progress

Contribute

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License

To the extent possible under law, Cristóbal Carnero Liñán has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this work.