Michael Girg

Static.app hits a sweet spot for simplicity, ease of use, and is developer-friendly for static content. If your front-end is mostly static or lightly dynamic, you’ll appreciate how little setup you need.

I picked Static.app because I wanted the simplest path from code to live site. No Git setup, no build config, just drag, drop, and deploy. The built-in forms and easy custom domain setup were a bonus. For a front-end dev who ships lots of static demos, landing pages, and prototypes, it’s one of the most efficient hosting experiences I’ve had.

Yes, you can connect your custom domain easily and quickly with Static.app. Expect to spend maybe 10-20 minutes doing it if you’re comfortable with DNS (longer if you’re not). Once the DNS is set and propagation is done, everything else (SSL, hosting) is handled automatically.

For a front-end dev building a static site (landing page, portfolio, small SaaS marketing site), the form setup in Static.app is very convenient: minimal code change, quick turn-around, backed hosting of submissions. 

For many front-end use-cases, e.g., static websites, portfolios, marketing pages, light asset usage, the storage and file-size limits in Static.app are quite reasonable and will work smoothly.

If you’re running a SaaS company and rely on email (which most do), Unspam.email should be part of your stack. It adds an affordable, efficient layer of protection to help ensure that your emails land, engage and convert, instead of getting buried or marked spam. It’s not the full automation platform for sending or analysing emails (you likely already have one), but it is a focused tool for deliverability and inbox-placement, which is often the forgotten piece.

I picked Unspam.email after trying several other spam-testing tools. It’s the only one that felt built for SaaS teams, fast setup, clear guidance, and results I can actually act on. Instead of dumping technical jargon, it shows exactly what’s wrong with your email setup and how to fix it.

With Unspam.email the spam‐score analysis has been extremely useful. The technical checks (SPF, DKIM, blacklists) are rock solid, and the content scanning caught issues I wouldn’t have noticed.

After running our first campaign through it, we got a detailed report: broken links, missing unsubscribe header, SPF mis-config, and a heat-map indicating our CTA was buried. The tool didn’t just say ‘you have an issue’, it told us what the issue was and how to fix it in plain language.

We ran our domain through its SPF, DKIM and DMARC modules: SPF record was validated and parsed, DKIM keys checked for length and existence, DMARC syntax flagged a missing rua= tag that we hadn’t noticed.

Compared to many other monitoring tools, Pulsetic feels built with founders in mind. It’s lightweight, visually polished, and actually enjoyable to use. Perfect for startups that need professional reliability without enterprise-level complexity or pricing.

If you’re running a SaaS and care about uptime, transparency, and user trust, Pulsetic is worth trying. It’s one of those rare tools that quietly does its job so your team can focus on shipping, not firefighting.

I went with Pulsetic after testing a few alternatives like UptimeRobot and Better Uptime. The difference was clear right away, setup was fast, the UI felt modern and minimal, and the branded status pages looked great without extra effort. It’s one of the few uptime tools that actually feels designed for SaaS founders instead of big enterprise IT teams.

From a SaaS founder’s perspective, the best setup is usually multi-channel redundancy: Slack for team visibility, SMS for high-urgency events, and email for summaries or postmortems.

You can create incidents directly from downtime alerts, so you don’t need to log into another tool.

Every time I’ve had an issue I received a helpful response within a reasonable timeframe and it was resolved smoothly.

Amazing stuff with even better customer service! I've been using Postcards for a year and have had nothing but positive experiences with the product and the outstanding customer service. All of my queries were promptly addressed, and Postcards is simple to use, making HTML newsletters more enjoyable and engaging!

I’ve used a lot of email builders, but Postcards from Designmodo stood out because it gives me speed and control. The templates look great, the HTML is clean, and the export workflow is painless. It’s one of those rare tools that designers and developers can both love, easy for marketers to drag and drop, but technical enough for devs to trust in production.

Postcards is very usable for beginners. The drag-and-drop editor removes much of the usual HTML/email-layout friction. A new user can pick modules, swap content, see mobile preview, and within 30 minutes build a decent template. For standard marketing emails this is especially valuable.

The HTML export from Postcards is impressively clean and reliable. Every template I exported rendered perfectly in Gmail, Outlook, and Apple Mail. For me as a developer, that’s the deal-breaker, no messy code or broken layouts. I can export, upload to SendGrid, and hit send without touching a line. It’s one of the few visual email builders I actually trust to produce production-ready code.

Onboarding for Postcards was smooth. I found video tutorials and documentation covering everything from drag-and-drop usage to exporting HTML and adjusting code. The ‘how to embed video’ tutorial saved me time. While I did tweak some templates manually, the majority of the learning curve was minimal. For my front-end/marketing team, it meant we could get up and running without a full developer sprint.