Entries describe each tool in a launch, the company behind it and the founders who built it.
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Tools and stack
This portal covers the software a small team uses to build and run a product: hosting, databases, analytics, websites, planning and scheduling tools.
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ShipFast
ShipFast is a Next.js boilerplate sold to developers who want to launch web products quickly. Created by the…
Founded 2023 · Development
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Basecamp
Basecamp is a web based project management tool made by 37signals, the company known by that name before…
Founded 1999 · Productivity
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Business
Ruby on Rails
Ruby on Rails, often called Rails, is an open source web application framework written in Ruby. Created by…
Founded 2004 · Development
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Business
DuckDuckGo
DuckDuckGo is a privacy focused search engine and browser company founded in 2008 by Gabriel Weinberg. It built…
Founded 2008 · Search
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Business
Plausible Analytics
Plausible Analytics is a privacy focused, open source web analytics service presented as a lighter alternative to Google…
Founded 2019 · Analytics
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Business
Cal.com
Cal.com is an open source scheduling platform. Founded by Peer Richelsen and Bailey Pumfleet, it began as a…
Scheduling
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Business
Supabase
Supabase is an open source backend platform built on PostgreSQL. It presents itself as an open alternative to…
Founded 2020 · Development
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Business
Vercel
Vercel is a cloud platform for building and deploying web applications, and the company behind the open source…
Founded 2015 · Hosting
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Business
Notion
Notion is a workspace application that combines notes, documents, databases, wikis and project management. Notion Labs was founded…
Founded 2013 · Productivity
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Business
Linear
Linear is a software tool for planning and tracking product development, built for speed and a focused way…
Founded 2019 · Productivity
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Business
PostHog
PostHog is an open source product analytics company that has grown into a broader platform for product teams.…
Founded 2020 · Analytics
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Business
Ghost
Ghost is an open source publishing platform for blogs, newsletters and paid memberships, created by John O’Nolan. It…
Founded 2013 · Publishing
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Business
Webflow
Webflow is a software company whose browser based visual editor lets designers build and host websites without writing…
Founded 2013 · Web design
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Useful SaaS
Useful SaaS is a catalog of small software products, founded by John Lowell under the tagline “Small SaaS.…
Software
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Founder
Marc Lou
Marc Lou is a French indie maker best known for ShipFast, a Next.js boilerplate for launching web products…
Development
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Founder
Jason Fried
Jason Fried is an American entrepreneur and author, co-founder and chief executive of 37signals, the company behind Basecamp…
Productivity
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Founder
David Heinemeier Hansson
David Heinemeier Hansson, known as DHH, is a Danish programmer and entrepreneur who created the Ruby on Rails…
Born 1979 · Development
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Founder
Gabriel Weinberg
Gabriel Weinberg is an American entrepreneur and author, the founder and chief executive of DuckDuckGo.
Search
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Founder
Marko Saric
Marko Saric is a co-founder of Plausible Analytics, where he leads marketing, content, community and customer support. Uku…
Analytics
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Founder
Peer Richelsen
Peer Richelsen is a co-founder of Cal.com, the open source scheduling platform. He co-founded it with Bailey Pumfleet…
Scheduling
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Founder
Paul Copplestone
Paul Copplestone is the chief executive and co-founder of Supabase, the open source Postgres based backend platform he…
Development
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Founder
Guillermo Rauch
Guillermo Rauch is an Argentine born software developer and entrepreneur, the founder and chief executive of Vercel and…
Born 1990 · Hosting
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Founder
Ivan Zhao
Ivan Zhao is a co-founder and the chief executive of Notion Labs, the company behind the Notion workspace…
Productivity
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Founder
Karri Saarinen
Karri Saarinen is a co-founder of Linear, the issue tracking and product planning tool. Before Linear he worked…
Productivity
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Founder
James Hawkins
James Hawkins is the co-founder and chief executive of PostHog, the open source product analytics company he started…
Analytics
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Founder
John O’Nolan
John O’Nolan is the founder of Ghost and chief executive of the Ghost Foundation, the nonprofit that develops…
Publishing
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Founder
Vlad Magdalin
Vlad Magdalin is a co-founder of Webflow, along with his brother Sergie Magdalin and Bryant Chou.
Web design
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Tool
Ghost
Ghost is an open source publishing platform for blogs, newsletters and memberships. For a launch, it is a…
Founded 2013 · Publishing
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Tool
WordPress
WordPress is an open source content management system, announced on 27 May 2003, and the most widely used…
Publishing
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Tool
Webflow
Webflow is a visual website builder that produces clean code and hosts the result. For a launch, it…
Founded 2013 · Web design
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Tool
Vercel
Vercel is a platform for deploying web applications, closely tied to the Next.js framework. For a launch, it…
Founded 2015 · Hosting
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Tool
Netlify
Netlify is a platform for building, deploying and hosting websites from a Git repository. It was founded by…
Hosting
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Tool
Railway
Railway is a deployment platform for applications, services and databases. Jake Cooper founded it in San Francisco, and…
Hosting
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Tool
Supabase
Supabase is a managed back end built on PostgreSQL. For a launch, it gives a small team a…
Founded 2020 · Development
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Tool
Plausible Analytics
Plausible is a lightweight web analytics tool that counts visits without cookies. For a launch, it answers the…
Founded 2019 · Analytics
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Tool
Umami
Umami is an open source web analytics tool created by Mike Cao in late 2020 for his own…
Analytics
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Tool
PostHog
PostHog is a product analytics platform. For a launch, it shows what people do after they arrive: which…
Founded 2020 · Analytics
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Tool
Notion
Notion is a workspace for notes, documents, databases and wikis. For a launch, it is where many small…
Founded 2013 · Productivity
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Tool
Linear
Linear is a tool for planning and tracking software work. For a launch, it keeps the list of…
Founded 2019 · Productivity
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Tool
Cal.com
Cal.com is an open source scheduling tool. For a launch, it lets prospects and early users book a…
Scheduling
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Tool
NoTiesBuilder
NoTiesBuilder is a website builder that creates a standard WordPress site from a short brief and deploys it…
Web design