Our startup stack

Today's founder session in YC was sharing our startup stack and our tech stack. I thought I'd share ours more publically.

Startup stack

• Banking: Brex
• Shares and certificate management: Carta
• Product management: Linear.app
• Data management: Airtable
• Design: Figma
• Documents: Notion
• Communication: Slack
• Email: Google and Superhuman
• Calendar: Calendly
• Music: Spotify
• Source control: Github
• Code editor: VS Code with Tabnine
• Asset management: Filestack and Uploadcare
• Mass emails: Sendgrid

Tech stack

• Frontend deployment and hosting: Vercel/Nextjs
• Frontend stack: Nextjs, React, Ant Design, Apollo GraphQL
• API deployment: Heroku
• API stack: Nodejs, Koa, Sequelize ORM, GraphQL
• Error tracking: Sentry

package.jsons

I often times find myself looking at a project's package.json to get an idea of what tools or packages they are using and to discover new ways of doing things. Here is ours:

Frontend

{
  "dependencies": {
    "@ant-design/icons": "^4.4.0",
    "@apollo/client": "^3.3.7",
    "@sentry/browser": "^6.0.4",
    "@sentry/integrations": "^6.0.4",
    "@sentry/node": "^6.0.4",
    "@sentry/tracing": "^6.0.4",
    "@sentry/webpack-plugin": "^1.14.0",
    "@types/lodash": "^4.14.165",
    "@types/next-seo": "^2.1.2",
    "@types/node": "^14.14.11",
    "@types/randomcolor": "^0.5.5",
    "@types/react": "^17.0.0",
    "@types/react-dom": "^17.0.0",
    "@types/validator": "^13.1.3",
    "@uploadcare/react-widget": "^1.3.4",
    "@uploadcare/upload-client": "^1.1.2",
    "@zeit/next-less": "^1.0.1",
    "@zeit/next-sass": "^1.0.1",
    "@zeit/next-source-maps": "0.0.4-canary.1",
    "airtable": "^0.10.1",
    "antd": "^4.9.2",
    "apollo-link-sentry": "^2.0.1",
    "babel-plugin-import": "^1.13.3",
    "caniuse-lite": "^1.0.30001180",
    "codemirror": "^5.58.3",
    "console": "^0.7.2",
    "cross-fetch": "^3.0.6",
    "dayjs": "^1.10.3",
    "filestack-js": "^3.21.1",
    "final-form": "^4.20.1",
    "final-form-arrays": "^3.0.2",
    "final-form-focus": "^1.1.2",
    "framer-motion": "^2.9.5",
    "graphql": "^15.4.0",
    "hot-formula-parser": "^3.0.2",
    "humanize-string": "^2.1.0",
    "less": "^3.13.0",
    "lodash": "^4.17.15",
    "moment": "^2.29.1",
    "next": "10.0.5",
    "next-compose-plugins": "^2.2.0",
    "next-fonts": "^1.0.3",
    "next-optimized-images": "^2.6.2",
    "next-seo": "^4.17.0",
    "null-loader": "^4.0.1",
    "performance-now": "^2.1.0",
    "randomcolor": "^0.6.2",
    "react": "17.0.1",
    "react-cookie": "^4.0.3",
    "react-dom": "17.0.1",
    "react-final-form": "^6.5.2",
    "react-final-form-arrays": "^3.1.3",
    "react-use": "^15.3.8",
    "responsive-loader": "^2.2.1",
    "states-us": "^1.0.1",
    "titleize": "^2.1.0",
    "typescript": "^4.1.4",
    "universal-cookie": "^4.0.4",
    "uuid": "^8.3.2",
    "validator": "^13.5.2"
  },
  "devDependencies": {
    "@babel/core": "^7.12.10",
    "@graphql-codegen/cli": "1.20.0",
    "@graphql-codegen/fragment-matcher": "^2.0.1",
    "@graphql-codegen/import-types-preset": "^1.18.1",
    "@graphql-codegen/introspection": "1.18.1",
    "@graphql-codegen/jsdoc": "^1.17.9",
    "@graphql-codegen/named-operations-object": "^1.17.9",
    "@graphql-codegen/near-operation-file-preset": "^1.17.13",
    "@graphql-codegen/schema-ast": "^1.18.1",
    "@graphql-codegen/typed-document-node": "^1.18.2",
    "@graphql-codegen/typescript": "1.20.0",
    "@graphql-codegen/typescript-apollo-client-helpers": "^1.1.2",
    "@graphql-codegen/typescript-document-nodes": "^1.17.9",
    "@graphql-codegen/typescript-operations": "1.17.13",
    "@graphql-codegen/typescript-react-apollo": "2.2.1",
    "@graphql-typed-document-node/core": "^3.1.0",
    "@types/gtag.js": "^0.0.4",
    "@typescript-eslint/eslint-plugin": "^4.14.1",
    "@typescript-eslint/parser": "^4.14.1",
    "babel-plugin-graphql-tag": "^3.1.0",
    "eslint": "^7.18.0",
    "eslint-config-airbnb": "^18.2.1",
    "eslint-config-airbnb-typescript": "^12.0.0",
    "eslint-config-prettier": "^7.2.0",
    "eslint-plugin-import": "^2.22.1",
    "eslint-plugin-jsx-a11y": "^6.4.1",
    "eslint-plugin-prettier": "^3.3.1",
    "eslint-plugin-react": "^7.22.0",
    "eslint-plugin-react-hooks": "^4.2.0",
    "eslint-plugin-unused-imports": "^1.0.1",
    "graphql-codegen-apollo-next-ssr": "^1.3.0",
    "husky": "^4.3.8",
    "lint-staged": "^10.5.3",
    "prettier": "^2.2.1"
  }
}

Backend

{
  "dependencies": {
    "@apollo/client": "^3.3.7",
    "@babel/plugin-proposal-class-properties": "^7.12.1",
    "@babel/plugin-proposal-decorators": "^7.12.12",
    "@koa/cors": "^3.0.0",
    "@koa/router": "^10.0.0",
    "@sendgrid/mail": "^7.4.2",
    "@sentry/integrations": "^6.0.4",
    "@sentry/node": "^6.1.0",
    "@sentry/tracing": "^6.1.0",
    "@types/cookie": "^0.3.3",
    "@types/faker": "^5.1.6",
    "@types/graphql-iso-date": "^3.4.0",
    "@types/ioredis": "^4.14.9",
    "@types/jsonwebtoken": "^8.5.0",
    "@types/koa-logger": "^3.1.1",
    "@types/koa-redis": "^4.0.0",
    "@types/koa-session": "^5.10.1",
    "@types/koa__router": "^8.0.2",
    "@types/lodash": "^4.14.165",
    "@types/node": "^14.14.25",
    "@types/randomcolor": "^0.5.5",
    "@types/uuid": "^8.3.0",
    "@types/validator": "^13.1.3",
    "@uploadcare/upload-client": "^1.1.2",
    "@vjpr/babel-plugin-parameter-decorator": "^1.0.15",
    "airtable": "^0.10.1",
    "apollo-log": "^1.0.1",
    "apollo-server": "^2.19.2",
    "apollo-server-koa": "^2.14.2",
    "apollo-server-micro": "^2.19.2",
    "arg": "^5.0.0",
    "babel-plugin-import": "^1.13.3",
    "babel-plugin-transform-typescript-metadata": "^0.3.1",
    "body-parser": "^1.19.0",
    "class-validator": "^0.13.1",
    "cookie": "^0.4.0",
    "cors": "^2.8.5",
    "dayjs": "^1.10.3",
    "deep-diff": "^1.0.2",
    "dotenv": "^8.2.0",
    "exceljs": "^4.2.0",
    "faker": "^5.3.1",
    "filestack-js": "^3.21.1",
    "graphql": "^15.4.0",
    "graphql-iso-date": "^3.6.1",
    "graphql-type-json": "^0.3.2",
    "humanize-string": "^2.1.0",
    "ioredis": "^4.14.1",
    "jsonwebtoken": "^8.5.1",
    "jszip": "^3.6.0-0",
    "koa": "^2.10.0",
    "koa-bodyparser": "^4.2.1",
    "koa-jwt": "^4.0.0",
    "koa-logger": "^3.2.1",
    "koa-redis": "^4.0.0",
    "koa-router": "^7.4.0",
    "koa-session": "^5.12.3",
    "lodash": "^4.17.15",
    "moment": "^2.29.1",
    "node-dev": "^4.0.0",
    "node-fetch": "^2.6.1",
    "object-hash": "^2.1.1",
    "otplib": "^12.0.1",
    "pdf-puppeteer": "^1.1.10",
    "pdfmake": "^0.1.70",
    "performance-now": "^2.1.0",
    "pg": "^8.5.1",
    "qs": "^6.9.6",
    "randomcolor": "^0.6.2",
    "reflect-metadata": "^0.1.13",
    "sequelize": "^6.5.0",
    "sequelize-cli": "^6.2.0",
    "sequelize-mig": "^2.6.0",
    "sequelize-typescript": "^2.0.0",
    "sql-highlight": "^3.3.2",
    "titleize": "^2.1.0",
    "ts-node": "^9.1.1",
    "type-graphql": "^1.1.1",
    "typedi": "^0.7.3",
    "typescript": "^4.1.2",
    "uuid": "^8.3.2",
    "validator": "^13.5.2",
    "winston": "^3.3.3"
  },
  "devDependencies": {
    "@babel/core": "^7.12.10",
    "@typescript-eslint/eslint-plugin": "^4.14.1",
    "@typescript-eslint/parser": "^4.14.1",
    "babel-plugin-graphql-tag": "^3.1.0",
    "eslint": "^7.18.0",
    "eslint-config-airbnb": "^18.2.1",
    "eslint-config-airbnb-typescript": "^12.0.0",
    "eslint-config-prettier": "^7.2.0",
    "eslint-plugin-import": "^2.22.1",
    "eslint-plugin-jsx-a11y": "^6.4.1",
    "eslint-plugin-prettier": "^3.3.1",
    "eslint-plugin-react": "^7.22.0",
    "eslint-plugin-react-hooks": "^4.2.0",
    "eslint-plugin-unused-imports": "^1.0.1",
    "husky": "^4.3.8",
    "lint-staged": "^10.5.3",
    "prettier": "^2.2.1",
    "ts-node-dev": "^1.1.1"
  }
}