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18 tools · grouped by what Buttondown uses
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Heroku
· 3 mentions · 2 sourcesPlatform“Churned from Heroku Redis and onto Redis Enterprise Cloud, which means saving $70/mo for five minutes of switching environment variables.”
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“I eschewed flavor-of-the-month frameworks in favor of ones that I was experienced with (Heroku, Django, Vue, Sass);”
high“Cut Heroku from $2,100 to $1,200/mo”
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Stripe
· 2 mentions · 2 sourcesPayments“Stripe's cost is redacted because it scales with revenue and would be tantamount to disclosing our financials.”
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“Stripe's cost is redacted because it scales with revenue and would be tantamount to disclosing our financials.”
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Buffer
· 2 mentions · 2 sourcesSocial media“Replaced Vista Social with Buffer for social media management.”
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“Replaced Vista Social with Buffer for social media management.”
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Slack
· 2 mentions · 2 sourcesProductivity“Slack $50”
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“Slack$50”
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Vue
· 2 mentionsStack“I eschewed flavor-of-the-month frameworks in favor of ones that I was experienced with (Heroku, Django, Vue, Sass);”
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“Vue $83”
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Sentry
· 2 mentions · 2 sourcesOther“Churned from Better Stack in favor of using Sentry's logging + uptime monitoring.”
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“Sentry went from $100 to $250/mo.”
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Anthropic
· 2 mentions · 2 sourcesPlatform“Replaced Cursor and OpenAI with Anthropic.”
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“Replaced Cursor and OpenAI with Anthropic.”
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Uptimerobot
· 2 mentions · 2 sources“Added UptimeRobot (Solo plan) for uptime monitoring.”
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“Added UptimeRobot (Solo plan) for uptime monitoring.”
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ClickHouse
· 2 mentions · 2 sources“Added ClickHouse ($5/mo) for archival storage.”
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“Added ClickHouse ($5/mo) for archival storage.”
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Pulumi
· 2 mentions · 2 sources“Moved Pulumi Cloud back to a paid plan ($40/mo).”
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“Added Pulumi for infrastructure as code.”
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Mailgun
· 2 mentions · 2 sourcesEmail“Why so many ESPs? When I launched Buttondown, AWS Simple Email Service was notoriously low-quality and Postmark did not support broadcast emails. Mailgun was the choice I went with, and there are still many customers using Mailgun's rails who have custom domain records set up that I don't have th...”
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“Mailgun was the choice I went with, and there are still many customers using Mailgun's rails who have custom domain records set up”
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Django
· 2 mentionsPlatform“I eschewed flavor-of-the-month frameworks in favor of ones that I was experienced with (Heroku, Django, Vue, Sass);”
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“Django $417”
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Gusto
· 1 mentionOther“Gusto dropped from $200 to $130/mo.”
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Disposable-email-domains
· 1 mention“Added disposable-email-domains to the stack; donating $10/mo.”
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Obsidian
· 1 mention“Stopped using Obsidian; internal docs now run on our own viewer app.”
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incident.io
· 1 mention“Stopped using Better Stack to incident.io for incident management.”
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Python
· 1 mentionOther“Python $83”
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Sass
· 1 mention“I eschewed flavor-of-the-month frameworks in favor of ones that I was experienced with (Heroku, Django, Vue, Sass);”
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