Tech Stack Picker
Seven questions about your product, team, and budget → a concrete recommended stack (frontend, backend, database, hosting, auth, extras) with the reasoning behind each pick, one alternative per slot, and what it costs per month at MVP scale. Deterministic, opinionated, and current for 2026. Everything runs in your browser.
About this tool
Stack choice paralysis kills more early momentum than any bad stack ever has. The dirty secret is that for 95% of products the "right" stack is whichever mainstream option your team already knows, backed by Postgres, deployed on a platform that does the ops for you. This quiz encodes that logic: it weighs your team's experience and budget more heavily than hype, and every recommendation is a boring, hiring-friendly 2026 default — Next.js, FastAPI, Postgres, Supabase, Firebase, Vercel — not the framework of the week.
The mapping is deterministic: same answers, same stack, and you can see the reasoning per slot. It will be wrong for genuinely unusual requirements (embedded, HFT, hard real-time), and cost figures are ballpark free-tier/starter-plan numbers that drift as vendors reprice. Nothing you select leaves the page.