Ask HN: Great tools for solo SaaS founders?

• free-email-forwarding

  63 2,461 0.0 JavaScript

  Discontinued Repository archived and moved to monorepo

  

• SaaSHub

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  SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives

  

• parsemail

  59 2 2.9 Go

  Hanami fork of https://github.com/DusanKasan/parsemail

  

  I found https://hanami.run (soon to be mailwip.com due to name conflict with hanamirb.org) to setup email forwarding and a simple blog platform by "email to post" and webhook.

  Use it you can consolidate emails from multiple domains to forward to the same inbox. And you can add webhook/slack notification too.

• Sentry

  287 39,583 10.0 Python

  Developer-first error tracking and performance monitoring

  

  I would like to add [Sentry](https://sentry.io/) to the list. Helps identify the issues your customers have with SaaS and produce better code with a piece of mind.

• Nikola

  10 2,634 6.4 Python

  A static website and blog generator

  

  Might be this static site generator: https://getnikola.com/

  Found it by searching [nikola software].

• docker-mailserver

  94 15,073 9.1 Shell

  Production-ready fullstack but simple mail server (SMTP, IMAP, LDAP, Antispam, Antivirus, etc.) running inside a container.

  

  Genuine question: why not just have your own e-mail server with a bit of automation thrown in, something simple like https://github.com/docker-mailserver/docker-mailserver

  I can understand something like SendGrid or PostMark for the more complex use cases or larger platforms, but surely for a one man SaaS, the simple self-hosted option wouldn't be out of the question either?

  Provided, that the IP addresses aren't blacklisted and that a simple VPN is sufficient. Do we live in a world of walled gardens, where the smaller mail servers would just have their mail be discarded, or something?

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