How Makers Build - See what 8,500 real products are actually built with
Under reviewPlan a stack, check yours, or compare two tools, based on what 8,544 makers' products actually use, with sources, and what each tool costs at your scale.
Built by yunbiao Cheng · Developer Tools · SaaS · Free
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How Makers Build is a Community listing on Launch Llama with 0 total upvotes, founded by yunbiao Cheng who joined in Oct 2026, compared against 6 alternatives.
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Plan a stack, check yours, or compare two tools, based on what 8,544 makers' products actually use, with sources, and what each tool costs at your scale.
About
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.
Key Features
- Delivers stack plans from what 8,544 real products actually use, with sources
- Surfaces how common each tool is and what it costs as you grow
- Surfaces usage, who switched between them, and pricing
- Delivers monthly cost per tool at your usage, with free-tier limits
- Surfaces llms.txt, official MCP server and CLI per tool
- Surfaces how crowded a market is on Product Hunt, and who's gone
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How Makers Build is free to use. See the website for details.
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