Learning & community
Online learning & courses: the tech stack of 31 real products
Courses, tutoring, study tools and learning platforms.
The typical stack
The leading pick where at least 8 of them show the decision and the leader has at least a quarter of it.
| Decision | Most common pick | Share | At default usage |
|---|---|---|---|
| Database | 7 of 24 · 29% | — | |
| Frontend Framework | 13 of 23 · 57% | — | |
| Transactional Email | 6 of 13 · 46% | $20/mo · Pro 50k | |
| Hosting | 4 of 11 · 36% | $12/mo · Workers Paid | |
| Backend Framework | 4 of 10 · 40% | — | |
| LLM API | 7 of 10 · 70% | $10/mo · GPT-6 Luna | |
| Error Monitoring | 8 of 9 · 89% | $29/mo · Team | |
| Background Jobs & Cron | 3 of 8 · 38% | — |
Monthly bills add up to about $71 at the calculators' default usage, list prices. Set your own usage →
What they chose, decision by decision
Among the online learning & courses that show each choice, from makers' products and open-source code alike.
Small samples, fewer than 8 products: Payments (Stripe 6, Razorpay 1) · Authentication (Clerk 3, WorkOS 1) · Image & Video Hosting (sharp 3, Mux 2) · Database Access & ORMs (Prisma 3, Drizzle ORM 1) · File Storage (Amazon S3 3, Uppy 1) · Web Analytics (Plausible Analytics 2, Vercel Web Analytics 1)
Online learning & courses we track
20 makers' products and 11 open-source projects. Makers' products first.