Spreadsheets, slides & PDFs: the tech stack of 19 real products
Spreadsheets, presentations, PDFs and document generation.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hosting | 6 of 15 · 40% | $12/mo · Workers Paid | |
| Frontend Framework | 7 of 10 · 70% | — | |
| Database | 4 of 9 · 44% | $25/mo · Pro | |
| LLM API | 6 of 9 · 67% | $10/mo · Claude Haiku 5.5 |
Monthly bills add up to about $47 at the calculators' default usage, list prices. Set your own usage →
What they chose, decision by decision
Among the spreadsheets, slides & PDFs that show each choice, from makers' products and open-source code alike.
Small samples, fewer than 8 products: Payments (Stripe 6, PayPal 1) · Transactional Email (Resend 4, SendGrid 2) · Web Analytics (Google Analytics 3, Plausible Analytics 2) · Authentication (Supabase 1, Better Auth 1) · Lifecycle Email (Customer.io 2, Loops 1) · Product Analytics (PostHog 2, Amplitude 1)
Spreadsheets, slides & PDFs we track
17 makers' products and 2 open-source projects. Makers' products first.