Running the business
Payments, analytics and the daily tools.
My stack for this
Don't
- Slack
A distraction: always-on chat fragments the day. Email and WhatsApp are enough for clients, and notes and docs live as Markdown in GitHub.
Instead: GitHub
- Jira, Asana, Monday.com and heavy project-management software
Process for the sake of process. Jira, Asana and Monday.com turn a small team into ticket administrators. A minimal board is enough.
Instead: Trello
The picks, in brief
What each one is, my verdict, and what it costs. Every name opens the full entry: when to use it and when not, the gotchas with their fixes, provisioning and alternatives.
Payments, mine and my clients'.
Pricing: Australian cards: 1.65% + A$0.30 domestic, 3.5% + A$0.30 international, plus 2% when currency conversion applies. No setup or monthly fee. Disputes A$25 each. Billing (subscriptions) adds 0.7% of billing volume on pay-as-you-go; Managed Payments (Stripe as merchant of record) adds 3.5% per transaction.
Product analytics, feature flags and session replay in one tool.
Pricing: Free every month: 1M analytics events, 5,000 session recordings, 1M feature-flag requests, 100,000 exceptions and 1,500 survey responses. Then usage-based, falling with volume: $0.00005 per event and $0.005 per recording at the first paid tier. Events tied to a person profile cost extra. Optional platform add-ons from $250 a month.
Code, notes and docs. Everything integrates with it first.
Pricing: Free: unlimited private repos and 2,000 Actions minutes a month. Team: $4 per user a month, with 3,000 minutes and protected branches on private repos. Secret push protection on private repos is an add-on (GitHub Secret Protection, $19 per active committer a month).
Where they sit
The layers of the stack this job touches, with every tool named on this page.
Build and test
How the code gets written and checked.
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