Budget Startup Stack

Intermediate

A completely free, highly capable foundation for a 5-person dev team.

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Workflow Steps

Version Control

GitHub

Source code management and collaboration

freeQuick setupModerate learning curveAPI

Issue Tracking

Linear

Sprint planning and bug tracking

freeModerate setupEasy learning curveAPI

Code Editor

VS Code

Local development environment

freeModerate setupEasy learning curveAPI

Frontend Hosting

Vercel

Web application deployment

freeQuick setupEasy learning curveAPI

Database & Auth

Supabase

Backend infrastructure

freeModerate setupModerate learning curveAPI

Team Communication

Slack

Internal chat and alerts

freeQuick setupEasy learning curveAPI

Integration Map

GitHub

Vercel

Vercel automatically deploys every push to GitHub, providing preview URLs for pull requests.

Linear

GitHub

Linear automatically links PRs to issues and moves issue states when PRs are merged.

About this workflow

This stack leverages the generous free tiers of modern developer tools to give your startup a professional-grade product development environment at zero cost. It covers everything from issue tracking and version control to database hosting and deployment.