I would like to list here the software that I use or recommend to create products.
I have an approach that deliberately aims to support the European market, so I prioritize, in order:
European software Non-US open source software (self hosting) US open source software Non-US software US and Chinese software. (Despite this, you will see that I have 28% US software)
Here I only talk about the basic building blocks for creating a company, support software, observability, emailing, payment, etc…
Table of contents Hosting Payment Analytics DNS - CDN Support Monitoring - logging - observability Feedbacks Emails Company blog Actor Country Usage Scaleway French S3 storage Hetzner German Dedicated machine to run Coolify. Coolify Hungary PAAS I'm thinking of switching to Scaleway which is more suited to infrastructure as code Github US Git hosting Currently testing an alternative. Stay tuned :)
Criteria: Merchant of record, metered billing, coupons, connect
Actor Country Comments Stripe US Sorry… For now I haven't been able to get around it
Alternatives that I couldn't test:
creem.io Estonia Missing metered billing and connect part Mollie Netherlands All pricing management and metered billing has to be done manually Paddle UK no Stripe Connect equivalent
Actor Country Usage Openpanel Sweden Web and product analytics
Actor Country Usage Bunny.net Slovenia DNS, CDN, WAF, Optimization, Edge
Actor Country Usage Fernand France Help desk
alternative often cited: Crisp (France)
Actor Country Usage Phare.io Estonia uptime Sentry US error tracking (currently switching to bugsink)
Alternatives currently being evaluated to replace Sentry:
BugSink Self hosted (Europe) error tracking OpenObserve Self hosted (US) Observability
Actor Country Usage Fider Open source (country ?) Feedback, changelog, roadmap
European Alternatives: upvoty (FR) , LiteFeedback (FR) , Feedfast (RO) ,
Actor Country Usage Scaleway TEM France Transactional emails AWS US Marketing emails
No European actor allows me to send marketing emails at AWS prices. It's on average x10 on prices, which is totally prohibitive.
Well yes, of course I use my own product, what did you think I was going to put? :)
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