VC Boom tech stack

Clerk

“Even sitting on Supabase, I reached for Clerk because its prebuilt components got sign-in, sessions, and social login working in about an hour, and they look good out of the box. Auth0 is powerful but heavier than I needed for launch speed.” — the maker, Sep 2026 ↗

Resend

“SendGrid and Mailgun still work but feel like 2015. Resend has the cleanest API and React-based email templates, so all my transactional mail took an afternoon instead of a sprint.” — the maker, Sep 2026 ↗

Supabase

“I wanted real Postgres, not a proprietary store I'd be locked into. Supabase bundles the database, auth, and storage, it's open source, and I can self-host if I ever outgrow it. Firebase felt like a cage by comparison.” — the maker, Sep 2026 ↗

PostHog

“I wanted product analytics, session replay, and feature flags without stitching three separate tools together. PostHog does all of it, has a real free tier, and I can self-host the data. Mixpanel plus Amplitude plus a flags tool would have cost more and played…” — the maker, Sep 2026 ↗

Claude Code

“I tried Cursor and Copilot, but Claude Code runs agentically right in my terminal, holds the whole repo in context, and ships real multi-file changes instead of autocompleting one line at a time. On the MAX plan I'm not watching a usage meter while I build, wh…” — the maker, Sep 2026 ↗

Vercel

“I'm on Next.js, so Vercel was the natural home. Push to git and it's live in seconds, with a preview URL on every branch. Netlify is close, but nothing matches Vercel's Next.js and edge integration, and I did not want to spend a single hour thinking about infr…” — the maker, Sep 2026 ↗