Running the business

Newsletters, issue tracking and the monthly bill for the whole stack.

• What a lean SaaS stack costs per month: two worked examples with published prices
  A realistic tool stack for a small software product at two stages, pre-launch and early revenue, with each line priced from the vendor's own pricing page and linked to our detailed comparisons.
• Substack vs beehiiv vs Kit vs Buttondown: newsletter platform costs compared
  Revenue share against monthly fees: what four popular newsletter platforms charge on free and paid plans, what they take from paid subscriptions, and a worked example for 1,000 subscribers with 50 paying.
• Linear vs Jira vs GitHub Projects: issue tracking for small software teams
  Free plan limits and per-user prices for Linear, Jira and GitHub Projects, what each tool is designed for, and what a five-person team would pay.
• Cloudflare Registrar: what at-cost domain pricing means, and the trade-offs
  How Cloudflare Registrar's no-markup pricing works, the requirement to use Cloudflare's nameservers, transfer rules (including the 60-day lock and the .uk exception), renewals and expiry, and when another registrar is a better fit.

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