The Tech Stack

Name: The Tech Stack
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NEWBeginner1h 40mUpdated 2026-05-01

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About this course

Stack-choice is your speed ceiling. A rudimentary Airbnb in a week is realistic when your stack is dialed. This course is Allen's full opinion — what to use, why, and the cost math that nobody documents.

What you'll learn

Why your stack choice matters more than your prompts

Allen's 5-piece foundation and how the pieces lock together

When you need a VPS vs when Vercel is enough

The Google Workspace trick that keeps client work isolated and clean

Real cost math — Vercel free tier limits, Supabase per-instance, when to scale up

25+ AI bonus tools — LLMs, image/video, voice, dev, business, comms, PM/design

The 3 pitfalls of picking the wrong stack

Course curriculum

6 modules·31 lessons·Total 1h 40m

01Stack = your speed ceiling. "Rudimentary Airbnb in a week" examplePreview2m

02The 90% prompting BS — useless without the right stackPreview2m

03Technical-debt pitfall at scale (most won't hit it)1m

01Claude AND Codex — using both for different jobs (Allen's daily rotation)1m

02Supabase vs Firebase (mobile) / Neon / Turso / PlanetScale1m

03Vercel vs Cloudflare Pages / Netlify / AWS (when to switch)2m

04GitHub — Allen's pick because comfort, alternatives matter less here2m

05VPS layer — Hetzner / DigitalOcean / Linode / Mac Mini, when you need it2m

06How all 5 pieces lock together1m

01One Google Workspace per client engagement2m

02Save every login (Supabase, Vercel, Stripe, etc) in that Workspace's Chrome + password mgr2m

03Clean handoff at end of engagement — give them the Workspace, walk away1m

04Same pattern for your own projects (project1@yourbiz.com, project2@yourbiz.com)2m

01How expensive each piece actually is — Vercel free tier, Supabase free tier, Claude Max2m

02How many sites per Vercel instance vs one Supabase instance per project1m

03When to separate projects vs all-in-one on Vercel1m

04Cost math for a 100-user SaaS2m

05Client cost management via Google Workspace1m

01LLMs — Anthropic, OpenAI, Gemini, Perplexity (when each wins)2m

02Image/Video — Midjourney, Nano Banana 2 Pro, Veo 3.1, Higgsfield2m

03Voice — ElevenLabs1m

04Dev tools — Cursor, Warp/Ghostty, TablePlus, Postman1m

05Automation + scraping — n8n, SerpAPI, Firecrawl1m

06Business — Stripe, Sentry, PostHog, Google Analytics2m

07Ads (light touch) — Google Ads + Facebook Ads1m

08Comms — Resend, Zoom, Otter1m

09PM + Design — Linear, Figma2m

01The "I built on the wrong stack" sunk cost1m

02Migration cost — why switching later sucks1m

03Stack diversity vs stack discipline2m

04Your bundle upgrade path1m

What you take home

3 downloadable artifacts

Every course ships with the methodology AND the working assets. Drop them straight into your stack — they're AI-feedable, so you can paste them into Claude / Cursor / ChatGPT as a system prompt.

SKILL.md — Allen's stack methodology

SKILL.md

The 5-piece stack philosophy + the VPS choice + the Google Workspace trick. AI-feedable as a Claude system prompt.

25+ AI tools reference card

Cheatsheet

Every tool Allen actually installs, what it does, free vs paid, install link.

VPS provisioning + tools install scripts

Code

Exact commands to spin up Allen's stack on a fresh server — copy-paste to terminal.

Meet your instructor

Allen Seavert — in residence

Founder · SetupBots · Phoenix, AZ

13+ years building. Shipped marketplaces, CRMs, lead engines, and content pipelines for clients from solo founders to 8-figure companies. Built a production experiences marketplace from scratch — scraped 13,706 leads with AI, wired a seat-race booking system, and automated cold email at scale. Now teaching the methodology.

13+Years building

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Frequently asked questions

No. This course is built for non-developers. Foundations like Claude Code, Supabase, Vercel, and GitHub are taught from zero. By the end you'll be shipping real apps without writing code yourself.

Lifetime access. You get every future update to the course as the tools evolve. No expiring subscriptions.

30-day no-questions-asked refund. If the course doesn't deliver on what we promised, we refund and we want to know why so we can improve.

Yes — completion certificates are issued automatically when you finish all course modules. They're shareable on LinkedIn.

Yes. Many operators buy a course first then book a consulting engagement to apply it to their specific business. Email growth@setupbots.com for details.

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