Personal finance & investing: the tech stack of 19 real products
Budgeting, investing and money apps for individuals.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hosting | 4 of 13 · 31% | $12/mo · Workers Paid | |
| Frontend Framework | 9 of 12 · 75% | — | |
| LLM API | 8 of 11 · 73% | $10/mo · GPT-6 Luna | |
| Database | 3 of 10 · 30% | — | |
| Backend Framework | 4 of 8 · 50% | — |
Monthly bills add up to about $22 at the calculators' default usage, list prices. Set your own usage →
What they chose, decision by decision
Among the personal finance & investing that show each choice, from makers' products and open-source code alike.
Small samples, fewer than 8 products: Transactional Email (Resend 3, SendGrid 2) · AI SDK & Agent Framework (LangChain 2, AI SDK 2) · Database Access & ORMs (SQLAlchemy 2, Prisma 1) · Payments (Stripe 2, PayPal 1) · Web Analytics (Google Analytics 3, Vercel Web Analytics 1) · Background Jobs & Cron (Celery 3) · Error Monitoring (Sentry 3) · LLM Observability & Evals (LangSmith 1, Opik 1)
Personal finance & investing we track
13 makers' products and 6 open-source projects. Makers' products first.