Stripe's developer experience is unmatched. Clean APIs, excellent docs, and the billing portal meant we could implement subscriptions (free/pro plans) in days, not weeks. The webhook reliability and test mode made iterating on our payment flow painless.
Deploying our Next.js web app on Vercel was effortless, push to main and it's live. The preview deployments for every PR, edge network performance, and zero-config setup let us focus on building features instead of wrestling with CI/CD pipelines.
Firebase gave us the full backend stack - Auth, Firestore, Cloud Functions, Storage - without managing infrastructure. The seamless integration between services and generous free tier made it the obvious choice for launching an AI-powered app quickly and scaling affordably.
Cursor's AI-powered code completions and inline chat made building a full-stack app (Flutter + Next.js + Firebase) significantly faster. The contextual understanding of the codebase across multiple languages was a game-changer for a solo developer shipping across platforms.
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