My Tech Stack & What I Spend Money On
When managing a business (and life), expenses can escalate quickly. Despite being "only X amount," we're bombarded with many financial decisions, many of which are recurring.
Here's what works for me:
- Actively cutting expenses
- Replacing unnecessary tools
- Investing in lifetime deals to avoid recurring costs
Every tool has a value proposition, but understanding its genuine ROI is crucial.
My Toolset
Some of my content contains affiliate links – about
- Webstudio – The greatest website builder on Earth
- Sanity – Super flexible CMS
- SerpRobot – Cheap and effective keyword tracker
- Copilot – AI coding tool, boosts productivity (subscription varies with development workload)
- Cloudflare – Pro & Workers for image transformations, speeds up site, provides additional functionality
- Ahrefs – Keyword data and site audits
- Screen Studio – High-quality product demos
Affiliate Info
Some links in my content are affiliate links.
This means if you click them and purchase whatever is on the other side, I may get a commission.
Welcome to the internet.
Unfortunately, some blogs are littered with links to services that are solely for the purpose of making money and aren’t actually in our best interest. Google “WordPress hosting” and you’ll find 100% of the articles and 100% of the links in those articles are affiliate links. While this isn’t always a bad thing, it can be. In those articles, you won’t see a single mention of Pantheon, which is, by many tests, the fastest WordPress hosting. Why isn’t it there? Because they don’t have an affiliate program.
The majority of my content documents things I’ve done. When available, I link to the service with an affiliate link. Otherwise, I still link to it because, duh.
I’m pretty anal about the tools I choose to use, so I’m not just throwing out baseless recommendations.