Games & entertainment: the tech stack of 52 real products
Games, media, fun and hobby apps.
What sets them apart
Picks at least twice as common here as among products overall, in decisions at least 10 of them show.
The typical stack
The leading pick where at least 8 of them show the decision and the leader has at least a quarter of it.
| Decision | Most common pick | Share | At default usage |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frontend Framework | 31 of 43 · 72% | — | |
| Database | 17 of 29 · 59% | — | |
| Backend Framework | 9 of 24 · 38% | — | |
| Hosting | 7 of 23 · 30% | $27/mo · Pro 3,000 credits | |
| Database Access & ORMs | 6 of 16 · 38% | — | |
| Error Monitoring | 12 of 15 · 80% | $29/mo · Team | |
| Transactional Email | 5 of 14 · 36% | — | |
| Image & Video Hosting | 12 of 13 · 92% | — | |
| Background Jobs & Cron | 3 of 8 · 38% | — | |
| LLM API | 6 of 8 · 75% | $10/mo · GPT-6 Luna |
Monthly bills add up to about $66 at the calculators' default usage, list prices. Set your own usage →
What they chose, decision by decision
Among the games & entertainment that show each choice, from makers' products and open-source code alike.
Small samples, fewer than 8 products: Payments (Stripe 5, PayPal 2) · AI SDK & Agent Framework (LangChain 2, AI SDK 2) · Authentication (Clerk 2, Better Auth 1) · LLM Observability & Evals (Langfuse 2, Braintrust 1) · Product Analytics (Amplitude 2, PostHog 1) · Web Analytics (Cloudflare Web Analytics 2, Google Analytics 2)
Games & entertainment we track
27 makers' products and 25 open-source projects. Makers' products first.