Stack on a Budget is a curated list of services with substantial free tiers for developers building side projects and small applications.
The repository addresses the challenge of building and deploying projects without significant financial investment. It collects services across categories like platform-as-a-service, software-as-a-service, databases, and hosting that offer free tiers suitable for development, testing, and production use. Rather than requiring developers to research individual services, the project centralizes information about what each free tier includes and its limitations, making it straightforward to evaluate whether a service fits a particular project's needs.
Developers choosing to use this list should understand it serves as a reference for discovering alternatives to paid services rather than as a recommendation engine. It suits anyone building side projects, prototypes, or small production applications who wants to minimize costs while maintaining access to professional-grade infrastructure. The repository emphasizes detailed descriptions of free tier capabilities and constraints so that developers can make informed decisions without needing to visit each service's pricing page.
The project welcomes community contributions following established guidelines for selecting and describing services. Contributors are expected to provide specifics about free tier offerings and their limitations rather than general marketing language. The repository maintains a structured table of contents to help developers navigate services by category and need.
