A two-person team can now ship what took a funded engineering org five years ago. This is the stack we would choose today and why — with free tiers to start on for every layer.
Marketing site: Framer or Webflow
Framer gets you from design to published site fastest, with animation tooling that sells a product. Webflow wins when the site is content-heavy and the CMS does the heavy lifting.
Publish free on a framer.website subdomain
The product itself: Bubble
For a real application with accounts and complex logic you control visually, Bubble's decade of maturity shows. The plugin ecosystem alone saves weeks.
Glue: Zapier
Every no-code stack leaks data between tools; Zapier is the plumbing. The free tier proves the concept; budget for Professional once automations multiply.
Back office: Notion
Docs, CRM-lite, hiring pipeline, investor updates — one workspace, one subscription, free until your team grows.
The honest total
Every layer above has a usable free tier, so the stack costs nothing to assemble and evaluate. Paid tiers land in the low hundreds monthly combined — a functioning software company for the price of a phone bill.
Haw
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Editor at DaddyPromoos. Haw covers no-code, productivity, and the everyday tools small teams actually run on.
