“I Tried Building a Startup With Just These 5 Open Source Projects”

I built a working SaaS MVP in 30 days — no paid tools, just free open source magic. Here’s what I used:

🧱 Appwrite – backend-as-a-service with auth, DB, storage

💳 MedusaJS – open-source Shopify alternative

⚙️ Strapi – headless CMS that just works

📊 Nocodb – Airtable clone you can self-host

🧪 PostHog – product analytics without giving data to Google

It wasn’t perfect — but it was fast, lean, and fun.

📈 Want the full case study, screenshots, and GitHub links?
👉 It’s all in my full write-up here:

🔗 How I built a startup with free open-source tools