Starter stack

Ship an AI SaaS this weekend

You're one person, you write TypeScript, and the AI feature is the product. You want real users signing in and paying by Monday, and you'd rather pay a little per month than run servers.

79 makers' products and 69 open-source projects use at least half of these 9 tools.

What it costs

Launchabout 1,000 users: $66/mo
Tractionabout 10,000 users: $144/mo
Scaleabout 100,000 users: $834/mo

Plus fees on revenue (Stripe): $44 / $410 / $4,100 at those sizes.Monthly bills of the priced picks, list prices.

Do the picks fit together?No conflicts: no acquired or archived tool, no two tools for a decision that usually has one, nothing the plan's rules say doesn't fit.Open in Check my stack — add or swap tools →

Hand it to your AI agent

Paste into AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md or your Cursor rules: each tool with its agent docs, MCP server and CLI where they exist.

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# Stack: Ship an AI SaaS this weekend

You're one person, you write TypeScript, and the AI feature is the product. You want real users signing in and paying by Monday, and you'd rather pay a little per month than run servers.

Use these tools. Ask before swapping one for an alternative.

- Frontend Framework: Next.js — https://nextjs.org
agent docs: https://nextjs.org/llms.txt · CLI: npx next
Why: The default most makers and AI coding agents reach for; pages, API routes and streaming responses in one project.
- Database: Supabase — https://supabase.com
agent docs: https://supabase.com/llms.txt · MCP server: com.supabase/mcp (https://mcp.supabase.com/mcp) · CLI: npx supabase
Why: Postgres, file storage and auth in one project, so there's one dashboard and one bill while you find out if anyone cares.
- Authentication: Supabase — https://supabase.com
agent docs: https://supabase.com/llms.txt · MCP server: com.supabase/mcp (https://mcp.supabase.com/mcp) · CLI: npx supabase
Why: Already in the same project as your data, and row-level security ties each row to the signed-in user.
- Payments: Stripe — https://stripe.com
agent docs: https://stripe.com/llms.txt · MCP server: com.stripe/mcp (https://mcp.stripe.com) · CLI: npx @stripe/cli
Why: The most-used payment API among makers here, with hosted Checkout and a customer portal so you build no billing pages.
- Transactional Email: Resend — https://resend.com
agent docs: https://resend.com/llms.txt
Why: Sign-in links and receipts from a simple API, with templates written as React components.
- LLM API: OpenAI API — https://openai.com
agent docs: https://developers.openai.com/llms.txt
Why: The widest set of examples and models; swap in Claude or Gemini later without touching the rest of the stack.
- AI SDK & Agent Framework: AI SDK — https://ai-sdk.dev
Why: Streaming chat UI, tool calls and structured output in TypeScript, and a one-line switch between model providers.
- Hosting: Vercel — https://vercel.com
agent docs: https://vercel.com/llms.txt · MCP server: com.vercel/vercel-mcp (https://mcp.vercel.com) · CLI: npx vercel
Why: Push to deploy, preview links for every branch, and made by the team behind Next.js.
- Error Monitoring: Sentry — https://sentry.io
agent docs: https://sentry.io/llms.txt · MCP server: io.github.getsentry/sentry-mcp · CLI: npx sentry
Why: See the stack trace a user hit before they email you about it; a free tier covers an early product.
- AI Coding Assistants: Claude Code — https://claude.com/product/claude-code
agent docs: https://claude.com/llms.txt
Why: An agent that reads the repo and runs commands — and every pick above has docs or an MCP server it can use.

Trade-offs: Three vendors hold your data, your users and your payouts, and every bill grows with usage — fine at a hundred users, worth revisiting at ten thousand. Stripe leaves sales tax and VAT to you; if you sell worldwide from day one, see the merchant-of-record stack.

Source: https://howmakersbuild.com/stacks/ai-saas-weekend

The picks

Frontend Framework

Next.jsllms.txt CLI

The default most makers and AI coding agents reach for; pages, API routes and streaming responses in one project.

Chosen for frontend framework by 1510 makers' products we track · the alternatives →

Database

Supabasellms.txt MCP CLIIn Bolt, Lovable, v0

Postgres, file storage and auth in one project, so there's one dashboard and one bill while you find out if anyone cares.

Chosen for database by 564 makers' products we track · the alternatives →

Authentication

Supabasellms.txt MCP CLIIn Bolt, Lovable, v0

Already in the same project as your data, and row-level security ties each row to the signed-in user.

Chosen for authentication by 13 makers' products we track · the alternatives →

Payments

Stripellms.txt MCP CLIIn Bolt, Lovable, Replit, v0

The most-used payment API among makers here, with hosted Checkout and a customer portal so you build no billing pages.

Chosen for payments by 891 makers' products we track · the alternatives →

Transactional Email

Resendllms.txtIn Bolt, Lovable, Replit

Sign-in links and receipts from a simple API, with templates written as React components.

Chosen for transactional email by 944 makers' products we track · the alternatives →

LLM API

OpenAI APIllms.txtIn Lovable, Replit

The widest set of examples and models; swap in Claude or Gemini later without touching the rest of the stack.

Chosen for LLM API by 734 makers' products we track · the alternatives →

AI SDK & Agent Framework

AI SDK

Streaming chat UI, tool calls and structured output in TypeScript, and a one-line switch between model providers.

Chosen for AI SDK & agent framework by 4 makers' products we track · the alternatives →

Hosting

Vercelllms.txt MCP CLIIn v0

Push to deploy, preview links for every branch, and made by the team behind Next.js.

No maker's product we track shows it for hosting yet · the alternatives →

Error Monitoring

Sentryllms.txt MCP CLI

See the stack trace a user hit before they email you about it; a free tier covers an early product.

Chosen for error monitoring by 162 makers' products we track · the alternatives →

AI Coding Assistants

Claude Codellms.txt

An agent that reads the repo and runs commands — and every pick above has docs or an MCP server it can use.

Chosen for AI coding assistants by 738 makers' products we track · the alternatives →

What this costs you

Three vendors hold your data, your users and your payouts, and every bill grows with usage — fine at a hundred users, worth revisiting at ten thousand. Stripe leaves sales tax and VAT to you; if you sell worldwide from day one, see the merchant-of-record stack.

Ask your AI about this, with this page as the source:ChatGPT ↗Claude ↗Perplexity ↗

Who builds this way

Using at least half of these tools, each with a source: makers' products from their own words, customer stories, subprocessor lists or websites; open-source projects from their code.