Recommended tools for running an indie web business
I run a couple of indie web apps. Here are some of the tools and services I rely on and would recommend you check out if you’re in the same boat.
- Business email and calendar: Fastmail
- Product and business documentation: Notion
- Search: Kagi
- Forms/Surveys: Tally
- AI: GitHub Copilot / Claude Code
- Email Marketing: Loops
- Analytics: Plausible
- Password/Secure notes: 1Password
- Product blog: Pagecord (obvs)
- Personal notes: Obsidian
- Accounting: FreeAgent
- Transactional email: Postmark
- Application monitoring: AppSignal
- Application Hosting: Hetzner
- Application Deployment: Hatchbox
I’ll keep adding to this as I start to use others (or remember something I forgot to add!).