This site exists because choosing business software is unreasonably hard, and most of the internet isn’t helping.
Search for the best CRM for a two-person business and you’ll get a page written by a CRM company. Search for alternatives to a tool you’re unhappy with and you’ll get a list from a competitor of that tool. The advice is everywhere and almost none of it is disinterested.
We don’t make software. We just use a lot of it.
What this site is for
SaaS and Stacks helps small businesses, freelancers, agencies and creators choose tools and put them together into something that works.
That second part is the reason for the name. Most software advice treats every purchase as if it happened in isolation, but nobody buys one tool. You buy an email platform that has to talk to a CRM that has to talk to a form that has to talk to whatever you use to get paid. The pieces matter less than the fit between them, and almost nothing written about business software takes that seriously.
So alongside reviews and comparisons, this site publishes stacks: complete setups for a specific kind of business, with what each piece costs and why it’s there.
Who writes it
I’m Andreu. I build and run websites, and I’ve spent a long time on the other side of this problem — signing up for tools, paying for tools, and occasionally paying for tools I ended up not using.
I also run a Spanish-language site covering the same ground for readers in Spain and Latin America. This is the English version of the same obsession: fewer generic listicles, more useful answers to the question people actually have, which is usually not “what’s the best X” but “what should someone like me use”.
How this site makes money
Through affiliate commissions, disclosed on every page that carries one. You pay the same price either way, and commission rates play no part in how anything is ranked. The full explanation is on the affiliate disclosure page, and how we assess tools is on how we test software.
What to expect
Recommendations that name who they’re wrong for. Pricing with the date it was checked. Tools we like that don’t pay us a cent, when they’re the better answer. And corrections when we get something wrong, written down where you can see them.
Get in touch
Disagree with something here, or think a recommendation is off? I’d rather hear it than not.