Honestly flabbergasted by what some people with "7 figure companies" say.
Managing every single piece of your tech stack yourself is a lot of things, from very cool to nerdy, but it is NOT free.
Building? On you.
Maintenance? On you.
Bugs? On you.
Exploits? On you. If you are aware of them.
Sure, AI can help a whole lot nowadays, but so does AI help the businesses who's core business it is to absolutely perfectionize that one component they offer.
My boring self-hosted tech stack.
(Free and open source)
🔴 Infrastructure
Hetzner
Kubernetes
Docker
WireGuard
🔵 Apps
NextJS
NodeJS
Better Auth
🟢 Data
Postgres
pgvector
Redis
MinIO
🟠 Monitoring
Grafana
Prometheus
People acting like you need +10 managed platforms to run a SaaS company.
You really don't.
This stack is free, self-hosted, and runs a 7-figure SaaS business perfectly well.