SaaS You Happily Pay For

We use Postmarkapp for sending transactional emails, e.g. "click here to confirm your account" and I love that they keep a full copy of every email for 30 days. Not only can we inspect the response of the target mail server, timings, bounces etc but the full HTML raw and rendered.

https://railsautoscale.com/ for Heroku. It's more piece of mind when we get crawled or hit by an unbehaving security scan.

I recently discovered knapsackpro.com and I'm so glad to pay for it. CircleCI build times are essentially linear with parallelism now. Builds finish faster so we pay for fewer resources. 15 minute build is now 3m45s at the same cost.

I'm happy to pay for Miro, an infinite whiteboard. I've used Miro for the last few years and it's been a great way to keep a team organized and aligned. We've used it for product planning, project management, and remote team collaboration. It's been particularly helpful for us as a remote team.

For my indie SaaSes :

- Postmark for sending transaction emails

- AppSignal for APM / Error tracking

- PaperTrail (yes the SolarWinds one) for logging

For my solo SaaS company:

Backups:

- Backblaze (disaster recovery for my laptop)

Hosting:

- Cloudflare Workers

- fly.io (actually free when under $5/mo usage but I wish I was giving them money)

- AWS

Emails:

- Postmark After messing around with emails that weren't being received (especially with email-only auth), glad I found Postmark

- Gsuite

- Dmarc Reports Monitoring to see if I configured Dmarc correctly everywhere