I would like to list here the software that I use or recommend to create products.
I have an approach that deliberately aims to support the European market, so I prioritize, in order:
- European software
- Non-US open source software (self hosting)
- US open source software
- Non-US software
- US and Chinese software.
(Despite this, you will see that I have 28% US software)
Here I only talk about the basic building blocks for creating a company, support software, observability, emailing, payment, etc…
Hosting
| Actor |
Country |
Usage |
| Scaleway |
French |
S3 storage |
| Hetzner |
German |
Dedicated machine to run Coolify. |
| Coolify |
Hungary |
PAAS I'm thinking of switching to Scaleway which is more suited to infrastructure as code |
| Github |
US |
Git hosting Currently testing an alternative. Stay tuned :) |
Payment
Criteria: Merchant of record, metered billing, coupons, connect
| Actor |
Country |
Comments |
| Stripe |
US |
Sorry… For now I haven't been able to get around it |
Alternatives that I couldn't test:
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| creem.io |
Estonia |
Missing metered billing and connect part |
| Mollie |
Netherlands |
All pricing management and metered billing has to be done manually |
| Paddle |
UK |
no Stripe Connect equivalent |
Analytics
| Actor |
Country |
Usage |
| Openpanel |
Sweden |
Web and product analytics |
DNS - CDN
| Actor |
Country |
Usage |
| Bunny.net |
Slovenia |
DNS, CDN, WAF, Optimization, Edge |
Support
| Actor |
Country |
Usage |
| Fernand |
France |
Help desk |
alternative often cited: Crisp (France)
Monitoring - logging - observability
| Actor |
Country |
Usage |
| Phare.io |
Estonia |
uptime |
| Sentry |
US |
error tracking (currently switching to bugsink) |
Alternatives currently being evaluated to replace Sentry:
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| BugSink |
Self hosted (Europe) |
error tracking |
| OpenObserve |
Self hosted (US) |
Observability |
Feedbacks
| Actor |
Country |
Usage |
| Fider |
Open source (country ?) |
Feedback, changelog, roadmap |
European Alternatives: upvoty (FR), LiteFeedback (FR), Feedfast (RO),
Emails
| Actor |
Country |
Usage |
| Scaleway TEM |
France |
Transactional emails |
| AWS |
US |
Marketing emails |
No European actor allows me to send marketing emails at AWS prices. It's on average x10 on prices, which is totally prohibitive.
Company blog
Well yes, of course I use my own product, what did you think I was going to put? :)
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