COLLECTION · 12 APPS

The Easiest SaaS Apps to Build Yourself

These are the highest Vibe Scores on the whole register — every one of them lands a BUILD IT verdict, and none of them need anything harder than a landing page, a database, and maybe a login screen. If you're new to building your own tools with an AI agent, this is where to start.

LinktreeWebsitesBuild it99It is a list of links on a page. That sentence is the whole spec. The paid tiers sell you themes and click counts for something a single HTML file does.

SquarespaceWebsitesBuild it99If what you actually need is a fast, good-looking personal or small-business site — not a drag-and-drop editor for a non-technical team — a static site is strictly better: faster, free to host, and yours outright. This is the same trade this whole site is built on.

BitlyWebsitesBuild it97A URL shortener is a key-value lookup wearing a business model. Short code in, redirect out, count the click. Your own domain makes the links yours forever.

PlausibleMarketingBuild it97Cookieless pageview counting is deliberately the simplest kind of analytics: no per-user tracking, just aggregate counts per page per day. That constraint, which is Plausible's whole ethical pitch, is also exactly what makes it an evening build.

SurveyMonkeyDocumentsBuild it97A traditional multi-question-per-page survey — unlike Typeform's one-question-at-a-time polish — is closer to a plain form with a results table behind it. That's genuinely one of the simpler builds on this register.

UnbounceWebsitesBuild it96A landing page with a form and an A/B test is one of the more purely mechanical builds on this register — static HTML, a form endpoint, and a coin-flip on which version a visitor sees. There's very little here that needs a $74/mo platform.

CannySalesBuild it95A public board where people post feature requests and vote on them is one table, one form, and a vote count. There's very little hiding underneath a feedback board — it's one of the more honestly simple products on this register.

StatuspageDevtoolsBuild it95A public page showing green/red boxes per service, with an incident log underneath, is a small CRUD app with a nice layout. The hard problem (actually detecting the outage) belongs to your monitoring tool, not this page.

TodoistProductivityBuild it95A task list is the classic first app for a reason: it's CRUD with a due date. The weekend goes on the parts that make you actually keep using it — quick capture and recurring tasks.

TogglFinanceBuild it95A start/stop timer tagged to a project, saved as a row in a table, is about as simple as this register gets. The reporting on top is a handful of grouped queries. This is a genuinely easy evening.

TrelloProductivityBuild it95A kanban board is columns, cards, and drag-to-reorder. That's a well-worn UI pattern with mature libraries behind it — the hard part of Trello was never the board, it's the automation rules layered on top, which most people never touch.

UptimeRobotDevtoolsBuild it95Ping a URL on a schedule, alert if it fails, log the history. This is about as mechanical as monitoring gets, and one of the cleanest evening builds on the whole register.

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