How Alex MacGregor Runs Two SaaS Products on a $1K/Month Stack

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🧠 Stack Spotlight: The $1K SaaS Stack Behind Works.xyz & Write.ai

Alex MacGregor (@alexmacgregor__) is building two SaaS products—Works.xyz and TryWrite.ai—with a modern tech stack that balances lean infrastructure and powerful marketing tools. The total cost? Around $1,000/month.

Here’s a breakdown of everything powering his builds 👇

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💻 Development Stack

Google – Business email & workspace tools.

Stripe – Payment infrastructure for both platforms.

Cloudflare – CDN and performance/security layer.

Mercury – Banking for online business operations.

Apify – Web scraping used for data gathering.

ChartMogul – Business intelligence & analytics.

Bubble – Visual CMS for app interfaces.

Make – No-code automation to link tools and workflows.

Supabase – Scalable backend + hosting.

Resend – Transactional email delivery.

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📣 Marketing Stack

Instantly – Cold outreach and email marketing.

Apollo – Lead sourcing and sales CRM.

Adobe – Design work across brand, UI, and visuals.

Senja – Collect and display user testimonials.

Ahrefs – SEO keyword research and backlink tracking.

HubSpot – CRM for customer lifecycle management.

Typefully – Social post scheduling, especially on Twitter/X.

ChatGPT – Used for content generation and ideation.

Meta – Paid advertising for both B2B and direct traffic.

Ghost – Blog and long-form content publishing.

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Always remember,

Explore broadly

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Share ideas selflessly

Be willing to share your knowledge. Keep giving and it will come back to you.

Your stack is not going to save you

You are. So just build.

Go crush it,

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