Brevo
BrevoRun campaigns, lifecycle automations, and transactional email with a startup-friendly free tier and clear entry pricing.
Email & Lifecycleemail marketingmarketing automation
Curated growth stack
The Indie Hacker Stack Under $50
A deliberately lean stack for solo builders and bootstrapped products, using capable free tiers for email, behavioral research, website diagnostics, and workflow automation before paid complexity is justified.
Operating architecture
Why each layer exists
- 01
Email and lifecycle
Required roleProvides campaign and transactional breadth with a published free tier and a low paid entry point.
- 02
Behavior analytics
Required roleSupplies recordings and heatmaps without adding a software charge.
- 03
Technical site audit
The free 500-URL edition covers many early product and marketing sites.
- 04
Recommended components
Tool profiles in this stack
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Microsoft Clarity
MicrosoftSee how visitors use a website through session recordings, heatmaps, and behavioral signals without a software fee.
Analytics & CROsession recordingsheatmaps
Screaming Frog SEO Spider
Screaming FrogCrawl websites, inspect technical signals, extract data, and export issue-level evidence from a desktop application.
Search Intelligencetechnical SEOcrawler
Make
MakeDesign multistep application workflows with visual routing, transformations, webhooks, and a low-cost entry tier.
Automation & Integrationworkflow automationvisual orchestration
Selection method and disclosure
Selected to cover four distinct growth jobs with published free tiers and no unnecessary CRM or suite dependency.
No placement in this stack is sponsored. Free-tier limits and vendor terms should be rechecked before adoption.
Reviewed 2026-09-10. All four roles can start on published free tiers. Make Core or Brevo Starter brings the indicative paid entry to $9 monthly; usage and annual license upgrades are excluded.