I ship client sites fast on a simple free-tier stack: Next.js for the app, Supabase for database/auth/storage (a real Postgres database with a generous free tier — 500MB DB, 1GB storage, 50K monthly active users — instead of hand-rolling my own server and auth system), and Vercel for git-push deploys with automatic preview URLs I send straight to clients for review; the one thing most "free-tier stack" posts skip is that Vercel's Hobby plan is licensed for non-commercial use only, so I build and stage for free but move to Vercel Pro ($20/month) the moment a client site goes live and starts taking payments, and I set an uptime ping on Supabase so a quiet review week doesn't trigger their 7-day auto-pause.
I wrote this up because I kept seeing "free-tier stack" posts that skip the part where a client site actually going live changes the terms — and I'd rather share the version that would've saved me a conversation with a client than the version that looks tidier on paper.
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I wrote this up because I kept seeing "free-tier stack" posts that skip the part where a client site actually going live changes the terms — and I'd rather share the version that would've saved me a conversation with a client than the version that looks tidier on paper.