A tool for freelancers and solopreneurs

PAYTICK is a micro-SaaS tailored for freelancers and solopreneurs. I mean, it can still be used if you have a team of some sort, but it's more about managing your own time than managing a team (if that makes sense?).

Actually born from a plain, old, boring but reliable Excel spreadsheet, I just wanted to simplify the process of being aware of how much your time is worth 💸.

Because, you know, the older you get the more you get to understand that real wealth comes from the freedom you have to choose how you spend your own time. But you still have bills to pay, so the logical path is to optimize how much your time is worth.

-- End of story time.

The Tech Stack

I've went more in depth on one of my notes: Built a Micro-SaaS for fun. How? about my tech stack and why I made the choices I've made, but in short:

• .NET for the backend;
• PostgreSQL for the database;
• Firebase for authentication;
• Docker to get environment up & running;
• NextJS for the frontend;
• WordPress for the landing page;

Infrastructure:

The infrastructure is nothing too fancy, but still easily scalable (more vertically than horizontally, although it would be easy to implement that) and works perfectly fine.

• VPS for the API.
• Managed DB PostgreSQL instance.
• Hangfire for background jobs.
• Authentication with Firebase.
• Netlify for my NextJS app.
• Cloudways for the landing page.
• Sentry.io for logging and monitoring.
• Cloudflare as DNS, SSL and caching.
• GitHub for repository and CI/CD pipelines.

-- End of tech stack.

Honestly I'm not yet sure about the future of this project. It has been a great experience so far, I've been able to learn a few new cool things and well... it was fun. Still a long way to go and, for sure, coding it was the easy part. Getting people to actually use it - that's the real challenge!

Check it out at: https://paytick.app