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Resend

Email infrastructure without the science-fair phase

When a product only needs to send mail—and you want that mail to arrive with boring reliability—Resend stays small on purpose. I keep coming back when I'd rather ship than negotiate deliverability lore for three weeks.

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Cloudflare Pages

Static and edge deploys that don't punish you for shipping

The path from repo to URL is short enough to use on a whim. Pair it with sane previews and you stop treating deploys like ceremonial events—useful when you're iterating in public.

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Airtable

Where lists become databases before you're ready

The cookbook itself lived here for a while: a list, then a base, then something you could actually filter. It's still the first place I suggest when a founder needs structure without standing up Postgres on day two.

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Lovable

Idea-to-UI fast enough to embarrass your blank canvas

When the goal is to feel the product—not debate component libraries—Lovable gets a prototype speaking in full sentences. I treat it like disposable scaffolding that sometimes survives longer than expected.

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Arcade

Shipping the demo without inheriting a rewrite

The through-line from AI-assisted build to something you can run and grow is where a lot of stacks quietly die. Arcade is what I'm digging into when founders want production without losing the plot.

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