Known Services Library

Condensed profiles for commonly used services in modern software architecture. Each profile includes what you need to get started: signup, setup steps, credentials, free tier, and documentation.

For the full extended library, see references/service-profiles.md.

Authentication

Auth0

• •Signup: https://auth0.com/signup
• •Setup: Create tenant → Create application → Configure callback URLs → Install SDK
• •Credentials: Domain, Client ID, Client Secret
• •Free tier: 25,000 MAU, unlimited logins
• •Docs: https://auth0.com/docs

Clerk

• •Signup: https://clerk.com/sign-up
• •Setup: Create application → Install @clerk/nextjs → Add middleware → Add <ClerkProvider>
• •Credentials: Publishable Key, Secret Key
• •Free tier: 10,000 MAU
• •Docs: https://clerk.com/docs

Firebase Auth

• •Signup: https://console.firebase.google.com
• •Setup: Create project → Enable auth providers → Install Firebase SDK → Initialize app
• •Credentials: Firebase config object (apiKey, authDomain, projectId)
• •Free tier: 50,000 MAU for most providers
• •Docs: https://firebase.google.com/docs/auth

Supabase Auth

• •Signup: https://supabase.com/dashboard
• •Setup: Create project → Auth is included → Install @supabase/supabase-js → Configure providers
• •Credentials: Project URL, Anon Key, Service Role Key
• •Free tier: Included with Supabase free tier (50,000 MAU)
• •Docs: https://supabase.com/docs/guides/auth

Kinde

• •Signup: https://app.kinde.com/register
• •Setup: Create business → Choose framework → Install SDK → Configure redirect URIs
• •Credentials: Domain, Client ID, Client Secret
• •Free tier: 10,500 MAU
• •Docs: https://docs.kinde.com

Payments

Stripe

• •Signup: https://dashboard.stripe.com/register
• •Setup: Create account → Get API keys → Install stripe SDK → Create products in dashboard
• •Credentials: Publishable Key, Secret Key, Webhook Signing Secret
• •Free tier: No monthly fee, 2.9% + $0.30 per transaction
• •Docs: https://docs.stripe.com

Paddle

• •Signup: https://www.paddle.com/signup
• •Setup: Create account → Approval process (1-3 days) → Configure products → Install Paddle.js
• •Credentials: Vendor ID, Auth Code, Public Key
• •Free tier: No monthly fee, 5% + $0.50 per transaction (merchant of record)
• •Docs: https://developer.paddle.com

LemonSqueezy

• •Signup: https://app.lemonsqueezy.com/register
• •Setup: Create store → Create products → Install SDK → Configure webhooks
• •Credentials: API Key, Store ID, Webhook Secret
• •Free tier: No monthly fee, 5% + $0.50 per transaction (merchant of record)
• •Docs: https://docs.lemonsqueezy.com

Databases

Supabase (PostgreSQL)

• •Signup: https://supabase.com/dashboard
• •Setup: Create project → Choose region → Database is ready immediately → Install client
• •Credentials: Project URL, Anon Key, Service Role Key, Database Connection String
• •Free tier: 500 MB database, 2 projects, 50K MAU auth
• •Docs: https://supabase.com/docs

MongoDB Atlas

• •Signup: https://www.mongodb.com/cloud/atlas/register
• •Setup: Create cluster → Choose M0 free tier → Create database user → Whitelist IP → Get connection string
• •Credentials: Connection String (includes user/password)
• •Free tier: M0 shared cluster, 512 MB storage
• •Docs: https://www.mongodb.com/docs/atlas

Neon (PostgreSQL)

• •Signup: https://neon.tech
• •Setup: Create project → Database is ready → Copy connection string → Install client
• •Credentials: Connection String
• •Free tier: 0.5 GB, 1 project, 100 compute hours/mo
• •Docs: https://neon.tech/docs

PlanetScale (MySQL)

• •Signup: https://planetscale.com
• •Setup: Create database → Create branch → Connect with connection string
• •Credentials: Host, Username, Password
• •Free tier: 1 database, 5 GB storage, 1B reads/mo
• •Docs: https://planetscale.com/docs

Upstash (Redis)

• •Signup: https://console.upstash.com
• •Setup: Create database → Choose region → Copy REST URL and token
• •Credentials: REST URL, REST Token
• •Free tier: 10K commands/day, 256 MB
• •Docs: https://upstash.com/docs/redis

Turso (SQLite)

• •Signup: https://turso.tech
• •Setup: Install CLI → turso db create → Create auth token → Copy URL
• •Credentials: Database URL, Auth Token
• •Free tier: 9 GB total storage, 500 databases
• •Docs: https://docs.turso.tech

Email

Resend

• •Signup: https://resend.com/signup
• •Setup: Create account → Verify domain (add DNS records) → Get API key → Install SDK
• •Credentials: API Key
• •Free tier: 3,000 emails/mo, 1 domain
• •Docs: https://resend.com/docs

SendGrid

• •Signup: https://signup.sendgrid.com
• •Setup: Create account → Verify sender → Create API key → Install SDK
• •Credentials: API Key
• •Free tier: 100 emails/day
• •Docs: https://docs.sendgrid.com

Postmark

• •Signup: https://postmarkapp.com/sign_up
• •Setup: Create server → Verify sender domain → Get API token → Install SDK
• •Credentials: Server API Token
• •Free tier: 100 emails/mo
• •Docs: https://postmarkapp.com/developer

AWS SES

• •Signup: Via AWS Console
• •Setup: Verify domain → Request production access → Configure SMTP or API
• •Credentials: SMTP credentials or AWS Access Key + Secret
• •Free tier: 3,000/mo free (from EC2), $0.10/1,000 otherwise
• •Docs: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ses

SMS & Messaging

Twilio

• •Signup: https://www.twilio.com/try-twilio
• •Setup: Create account → Get phone number → Install SDK → Send messages
• •Credentials: Account SID, Auth Token
• •Free tier: Trial balance (~$15)
• •Docs: https://www.twilio.com/docs

Hosting & Deployment

Vercel

• •Signup: https://vercel.com/signup
• •Setup: Connect GitHub repo → Auto-detect framework → Deploy
• •Credentials: None needed for basic deploy (uses GitHub OAuth)
• •Free tier: Hobby (personal, non-commercial), 100 GB bandwidth
• •Docs: https://vercel.com/docs

Netlify

• •Signup: https://app.netlify.com/signup
• •Setup: Connect GitHub repo → Configure build settings → Deploy
• •Credentials: None needed for basic deploy
• •Free tier: 100 GB bandwidth, 300 build minutes/mo
• •Docs: https://docs.netlify.com

Railway

• •Signup: https://railway.app
• •Setup: Connect GitHub → Select repo → Configure environment variables → Deploy
• •Credentials: None needed (uses GitHub OAuth)
• •Free tier: $5 trial credit
• •Docs: https://docs.railway.app

Render

• •Signup: https://render.com
• •Setup: Connect GitHub → Create service → Configure → Deploy
• •Credentials: None needed for basic deploy
• •Free tier: Free web service (sleeps after 15 min inactivity)
• •Docs: https://render.com/docs

Fly.io

• •Signup: https://fly.io/app/sign-up
• •Setup: Install flyctl CLI → fly launch → Configure → Deploy
• •Credentials: Fly API Token
• •Free tier: 3 shared-cpu-1x VMs, 3 GB persistent storage
• •Docs: https://fly.io/docs

Storage

AWS S3

• •Signup: Via AWS Console
• •Setup: Create bucket → Configure CORS → Create IAM user → Get access keys
• •Credentials: Access Key ID, Secret Access Key, Bucket Name, Region
• •Free tier: 5 GB, 20K GET, 2K PUT (12 months)
• •Docs: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/s3

Cloudflare R2

• •Signup: https://dash.cloudflare.com/sign-up
• •Setup: Enable R2 → Create bucket → Generate API token
• •Credentials: Account ID, Access Key ID, Secret Access Key
• •Free tier: 10 GB storage, 10M reads/mo, 1M writes/mo, no egress fees
• •Docs: https://developers.cloudflare.com/r2

Uploadthing

• •Signup: https://uploadthing.com
• •Setup: Create app → Install SDK → Configure file router → Add upload components
• •Credentials: API Key, App ID
• •Free tier: 2 GB storage
• •Docs: https://docs.uploadthing.com

Monitoring & Analytics

Sentry

• •Signup: https://sentry.io/signup
• •Setup: Create project → Install SDK → Configure DSN → Capture errors
• •Credentials: DSN (Data Source Name)
• •Free tier: 5K errors/mo, 10K performance events
• •Docs: https://docs.sentry.io

PostHog

• •Signup: https://posthog.com
• •Setup: Create project → Install snippet or SDK → Events auto-captured
• •Credentials: Project API Key
• •Free tier: 1M events/mo, 5K session recordings/mo
• •Docs: https://posthog.com/docs

Datadog

• •Signup: https://www.datadoghq.com
• •Setup: Create account → Install agent on servers → Configure integrations
• •Credentials: API Key, Application Key
• •Free tier: 5 hosts, 1-day retention
• •Docs: https://docs.datadoghq.com

Search

Algolia

• •Signup: https://www.algolia.com/users/sign_up
• •Setup: Create app → Create index → Push records → Install InstantSearch SDK
• •Credentials: Application ID, Search API Key, Admin API Key
• •Free tier: 10K search requests/mo, 10K records
• •Docs: https://www.algolia.com/doc

Typesense

• •Signup: https://cloud.typesense.org
• •Setup: Create cluster → Create collection → Index documents → Query
• •Credentials: API Key, Host, Port
• •Free tier: Typesense Cloud free tier available
• •Docs: https://typesense.org/docs

Meilisearch

• •Signup: https://cloud.meilisearch.com
• •Setup: Create project → Get credentials → Install SDK → Index documents
• •Credentials: Host, API Key
• •Free tier: Meilisearch Cloud free plan (100K documents)
• •Docs: https://www.meilisearch.com/docs

CI/CD

GitHub Actions

• •Signup: Included with GitHub
• •Setup: Create .github/workflows/ directory → Add workflow YAML files
• •Credentials: Automatic GITHUB_TOKEN, custom secrets via repository settings
• •Free tier: 2,000 minutes/mo (free plan)
• •Docs: https://docs.github.com/en/actions

Vercel (CI/CD)

• •Signup: Included with Vercel account
• •Setup: Connect repo → Auto-deploys on push → Preview deploys on PR
• •Credentials: None needed
• •Free tier: Included with Hobby plan
• •Docs: https://vercel.com/docs/deployments

Maps & Location

Google Maps

• •Signup: https://console.cloud.google.com
• •Setup: Enable Maps JavaScript API → Create API key → Restrict key → Install SDK
• •Credentials: API Key
• •Free tier: $200/mo credit (~28K map loads)
• •Docs: https://developers.google.com/maps

Mapbox

• •Signup: https://account.mapbox.com/auth/signup
• •Setup: Create account → Get access token → Install SDK
• •Credentials: Access Token
• •Free tier: 50K map loads/mo, 100K geocoding requests/mo
• •Docs: https://docs.mapbox.com

Push Notifications

OneSignal

• •Signup: https://onesignal.com
• •Setup: Create app → Configure platform (web/mobile) → Install SDK
• •Credentials: App ID, REST API Key
• •Free tier: Unlimited push notifications (mobile), 10K web push subscribers
• •Docs: https://documentation.onesignal.com

Novu

• •Signup: https://web.novu.co/auth/signup
• •Setup: Create account → Install SDK → Configure notification templates
• •Credentials: API Key, Application ID
• •Free tier: 30K events/mo
• •Docs: https://docs.novu.co