It’s amazing how much complexity one person can wrangle.

In a post - The Tech Stack of a One-Man SaaS:

• treat infrastructure as cattle instead of pets

• choose boring technology

• Moved DigitalOcean to Linode because of stability issues. Then moved to AWS due to a good deal.

• Migrations were relatively easy because the infrastructure was described via Terraform and Kubernetes manifests.

• Stack

  • Python/Typescript

  • Django/React/NextJS/Celery/Bootstrap 4

  • Clickhouse/PostgreSQL/Redis/RDS

  • Terraform/Docker/K8s/GitHub Actions

  • AWS/Cloudflare/Let’s Encrypt/Namecheap

  • Prometheus/Grafana/Sentry/Loki

  • Fastmail/Sendgrid

  • GitHub/PyCharm/VS Code/Poetry/Yarn/Invoked

A Hackernews discussion shares similar experiences by other successful one-person SaaS founders.