My new preferred solution for pet projects

I recently found the CloudFlare SaaS stack very easy to get up and running, and I want to share my experience with it.

My criteria for lowish-traffic applications are … fast to develop, easy to deploy, and free to host.

The stack is based on NextJS, which compiles static assets and deploys them to CloudFlare pages and workers. D1 is included if you need a database.

It’s also free for most small projects. On pages, you get unlimited (static) traffic. You are just limited to 1 build at a time and 500 builds per month, which should be plenty.

The workers give you 100k requests in the free tier.

There are no complicated deployment pipelines; just bun run deploy straight from your machine.

Idea → Production in hours.

P.S. Not sponsored, just cool.

Yours,

Taj