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How Makers Build

What 8,544 real products are built with, and what each tool costs at your scale

YBy yunbiao ChengLaunched Nov 9, 2026 UTC0 comments

Overview

How Makers Build is for indie makers and small teams choosing tools for a web SaaS or AI app. Instead of opinions or vendor lists, it shows what real products actually use: 8,544 makers' products, with the evidence behind each usage (their sites, repos and founders' own reviews).

Plan a stack: answer a few questions and get a stack for each decision (hosting, database, auth, payments, email, analytics, LLM API and more), with what makers like you chose.
Check your stack: paste the tools you use and see how common each choice is and what it will cost as you grow.
Compare two tools: who switched from one to the other, how many products use each, and pricing side by side.
Pricing at your scale: monthly cost per tool at your usage, from verified pricing pages, with free-tier limits.
AI-agent readiness: whether each tool has an llms.txt, an official MCP server or a CLI, so your coding agent can work with it.
Idea check: how crowded a product idea's market already is on Product Hunt, and which products in it are gone.

Free, no sign-up.

Who is it for?

Indie makers, solo founders and small teams building a web SaaS or AI app

Problem

Choosing hosting, database, auth, payments or an LLM API means reading opinions, vendor pages and sponsored lists, with no idea what real products actually picked or what it will cost once you grow.

Solution

It shows what 8,544 makers' products actually use for each decision, with the evidence for every usage, and the monthly cost of each tool at your usage. Plan a stack, check yours, or compare two tools in a minute.

What makes it unique

Evidence instead of opinions: every usage links to its source (a product's site, repo or its founder's own review). Pricing is read from vendors' pages and checked weekly. It also shows whether each tool works with AI coding agents (llms.txt, MCP server, CLI). Free, no sign-up.