Changelog

What we shipped

Everything that's been added or rewritten recently. New tools, the SaaS↔card bridge, calculators, the renewal tracker demo, blog posts, structural cross-links — and the small infrastructure pieces that made them flow.

May 8, 2026

19 changes
  1. Tools

    Catalog: 22 new tools (security, devops, video, AI agents, data infra, no-code)

    127 tools indexed. New picks: 1Password, Tailscale, Vanta, Drata, Snyk, CircleCI, Buildkite, Spacelift, Pulumi, Cloudflare Pages, Descript, Riverside, OpusClip, Browserbase, Voiceflow, CrewAI, dbt, Snowflake, Hightouch, Zapier, Make, Bubble.

  2. Cards

    Card stacks — curated 2-3 card combos for builder personas

    Mirror to tool stacks. AI Startup Founder, Indie SaaS, Enterprise B2B, Solo Builder, Cross-Border Founder. Each combo: combined annual fee, modelled savings, honest tradeoffs, links to matching tool stack.

  3. Tracker

    Public tracker demo at /tracker

    Try the subscription tracker before signing up — manual entry, localStorage-backed, no auth, no DB writes. Pre-populated with 3 demo subs. Surfaces forex tax + "find cheaper alternative" CTAs per renewal.

  4. Analytics

    Plausible event tracking on every conversion CTA

    <CardApplyButton> + <ToolVisitButton> wrappers fire custom events with rich context (card slug, surface, issuer, country / tool slug, category). 8 conversion surfaces × 127 tools / 105 cards now measurable.

  5. Analytics

    Lead capture at the moment of value

    Newsletter signup wired into the stack quiz result and cost-calculator output (only when 3+ tools selected). Source-tagged so future targeted blasts can segment by quiz outcome or stack profile.

  6. Quiz

    4-step stack quiz at /tools/quiz

    Tell us team size, stage, intent, region — we map to one of 5 curated stacks + recommend the matching credit card with annualised ₹ savings. Match strength + 2 alternative stacks shown.

  7. SEO

    Per-tool + per-card OG images (240 unique)

    Every shareable URL now has a distinct on-brand social preview. Stacks, calculator, best-for-saas, 127 tools, 105 cards. Tweets and LinkedIn shares show the specific tool or card — not a generic homepage card.

  8. Tools

    Stack-vs-stack comparison pages

    /tools/stacks/compare/[a]-vs-[b] — 10 pair pages. Tool overlap matrix (shared / A-only / B-only), monthly burn delta, best-card pairing per stack, "Load in calculator" deep links.

  9. Bridge layer

    Per-tool "best card for paying X" landings — 105 pages

    /cards/for-saas/[tool] — buyer-intent SEO surface. Top 3 cards per tool, savings projection at 1×/3×/10× spend, FAQ. Cross-linked from every tool detail page.

  10. Bridge layer

    Bidirectional SaaS↔Card bridge with smart recommender

    Every /tools/[slug] surfaces "Pay for X with the right card" with concrete annual ₹ savings. Every /cards/[slug] surfaces "Best SaaS to pay with this card" with aggregated savings. The brand promise rendered as a function call.

  11. Calculator

    Stack cost calculator with 5 persona presets

    Pick your tools, see live monthly burn + recommended card. URL-state-synced for sharing. One-click presets load each curated stack. Forex tax callout on USD-billed portion.

  12. Tools

    5 curated tool stacks

    AI Startup MVP ($80-250/mo), Indie SaaS ($50-150/mo), Enterprise B2B ($1,500-8,000/mo), Solo Builder ($0-25/mo), Agency Toolkit ($300-800/mo). Each: layered architecture, opinionated picks, tradeoffs, paired card recommendation.

  13. Tools

    Tool tech-profile badges (10 flag types)

    Open-source, free-tier, API-first, edge-native, serverless, SOC 2, GDPR, INR billing, self-hostable, React SDK. Curated for 80+ tools. Filterable signal for buyers reading reviews.

  14. Tools

    Pricing curves on every tool page

    4-tier cost projection (Hobbyist / Indie / Growth / Scale) per tool with category-specific axis labels — token spend for AI, MAU for auth, team size for productivity. Concrete monthly $ + INR for each tier.

  15. Blog

    Blog: How to pay for Anthropic Claude API as an Indian business

    Forex / GST / TDS playbook. Three card tiers, RCM treatment, when to set up a US LLC. ~1,800 words, 12 internal links.

  16. Blog

    Blog: Notion vs Coda for product teams

    Honest team-profile decision matrix. Pricing math at 25-person and 100-person scale. Migration cost in both directions. ~1,500 words.

  17. Blog

    Blog: Cheaper alternatives to Datadog for Indian startups

    Sentry + Better Stack at <$50/mo replaces $400+/mo Datadog for most teams under 100K MAU. 60-minute switch plan, decision tree, forex angle.

  18. Blog

    Blog: Forex on AI subscriptions — what Indian startups actually lose

    A typical 5-engineer AI startup loses ~₹42K/yr to default 3.5% forex on USD-billed APIs. Three switching paths, 4-year compounding projection (~₹11.3L cumulative), 5-step action list.

  19. Blog

    Blog: The AI startup stack we’d actually ship in 2026

    A 28-day path from blank repo to first paying customer. Anthropic + OpenAI + Pinecone + Vercel + Neon + Clerk + Stripe + Resend. ~$80-250/mo at small scale.

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