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Builder Handbook started with a spreadsheet. We'd launched a couple of small products, and every time the bill surprised us in the same places: a free plan that paused, an email limit we hadn't counted, card fees that grew into the biggest line. Nobody had written that part down in one place, so we did.
The guides are for people building software alone or with one other person: developers with a side project they want to charge for, freelancers turning a tool into a product, and anyone launching their first paid thing with an AI assistant helping them code.
Every price comes from the provider's own pricing page or documentation, and every guide lists those pages at the end with the date we checked them. Where a number helps, we work it out in full instead of calling something "cheap" or "expensive". When an example is made up to illustrate a point, we say so.
We re-check prices every few months. If you spot something that's changed before we do, tell us and we'll fix it.
Some links to the tools we write about are referral links, so we may earn a small fee if you end up on a paid plan. It costs you nothing, and it doesn't change what we recommend: plenty of guides here tell you to stay on a free plan or pick the cheaper option.
Questions, corrections or a topic you'd like us to cover: get in touch.