Paid service6 slots per month
Someone reads your stack and tells you what it costs you.
You already know what the layers are. What you do not have is someone who has read all 112 entries, will not benefit from any of your choices, and can tell you which three of your decisions are costing you the most.
This review is a paid service. Nothing on this index is for sale: no entry is sponsored, no tool's position can be bought, and no comparison verdict changes because of who paid. Paying for a review changes nothing on this site.
Stack Review
$490one-off
One team, one workload. 5 working days from context to document.
- Every layer you run, reviewed
- Three changes ranked by cost of delay
- The tools to delete
- A migration order that names what breaks
No card needed to ask a question first.
What you are buying
The index tells you what exists. This tells you what your choices cost.
These are not feature bullets, they are the six things that only come out of reading a specific stack end to end — the reasons the entry says "skip it" are usually about a constraint you have, and that is exactly what a generic list cannot see.
Layer-by-layer verdict
Each layer you run, checked against what the index says it costs and what it is actually for. Keep, change, or delete — with the reason in one sentence.
Ranked by cost of delay
Three changes, ordered by what it costs you per month to keep delaying them. The number is on each one.
The deletion list
The tools paying for themselves by leaving. Usually the longest answer on the page, and usually the cheapest to act on.
A cost model, not a pricing page
Built from your actual usage where you can share it. Vendor pricing pages tell you the list price, which is the wrong number.
Migration order
Sequenced, with the failure mode named at each step. Most rewrites die on step three of an unordered plan.
A document, dated
Written, attributed and dated. It stands on its own six months later, which a call does not.
How it runs
Five working days. Thirty minutes of yours.
Send the context
30 min, yoursA short form: what you are building, what you run, what it costs you, and what prompted the question. Thirty minutes of your time, not a repository archaeology exercise.
I read the actual stack
2 daysEvery tool you named, against its entry here and against the alternatives I rejected when the entry was written. The rejected alternatives are usually where the finding is.
Drafted, with your questions folded in
2 days + one roundA first pass lands in your inbox. Push back on anything that does not match your reality — a review written once and delivered unrevised is a guess with a price tag.
Delivered
5 working days totalThe dated document lands, with a call if you want one. The index is unchanged, because it was never for sale.
Pricing
The free one is not a trial of the paid one.
It is the product. Everything below the free tier buys is depth and a conversation, not access — there is nothing on this site held back behind the first tier.
- Always free
The Index
Everything on this site, forever, for anyone.
$0
- All 112 entries, ordered by stack depth
- When to use it and when to skip it, per tool
- Symptom → ordered checklist routing
- Stack Builder and 3-way comparisons
- Every figure on the site fails the build if it is six months stale
- Most chosen
Stack Review
The author's judgement, applied to one team's stack.
$490one-off
- Every layer you run, reviewed against the index — what you picked, what it costs, and whether it is the right call
- The three changes ranked by cost of delay, each with a dollar figure
- What to delete: the tools that pay for themselves by leaving
- A migration order that names what breaks at each step
- Written, dated, and attributable — not a call recording
- Add-on
Review + Build Session
The document, then ninety minutes inside your actual repo.
$1,450one-off
- Everything in Stack Review
- A 90-minute working session against your real config and dashboards
- We leave with the first two changes half-built, not just described
- Two weeks of async follow-up while you land them
If it does not name three changes worth more than the fee, you do not pay.
The deliverable is a written list of specific changes with a dollar figure against each one. If fewer than three of them are worth more than what you paid, tell me and I will refund it in full. No form, no retention process.
Ask a question first. It is free and it is the same email.
If the answer is that your stack is fine, that is the answer you get and it costs nothing. Nobody is going to pretend otherwise to make the sale — a neutral index that oversells is not a neutral index.
6 slots per month · 5 working days ·
The questions that stop people
Does buying this change anything on the site?
No, and that is the reason the offer exists in this shape. No entry moves, no comparison changes, no ranking is for sale. If a vendor pays for their layer to change, the answer is no — that is the same answer before and after your payment.
What if my stack is already fine?
Then the review says so and names the two things worth watching. That is a real outcome and you keep the document. It is also the outcome I cannot fake, because the first thing a reader checks on a neutral index is whether the author can be trusted when the answer is unflattering.
Who actually writes it?
Kunj Shah, who maintains the index and verifies its figures. Not an agency, not a contractor, and not a model reading the site back to you.
What do you need from us?
A description of the workload, the tools in play, and rough spend. Architecture diagrams and config files help a lot but are not required; most of the signal is in what you run and what it is costing.
Is this a subscription?
No, and it cannot become one. A subscription would make the index's quality conditional on paying, which is the one thing this site does not do.
Something not answered here? Ask directly — it is the same person who writes the entries.