Ask HN: Great tools for solo SaaS founders?

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  • free-email-forwarding

    The best free email forwarding for custom domains. Visit our website to get started (SMTP server)

  • parsemail

    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.

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    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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  • Sentry

    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

    A static website and blog generator

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

    Found it by searching [nikola software].

  • docker-mailserver

    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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