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Shipped: FreeTier + SEO Overhaul — 5 MVPs Revenue-Ready

Fifth MVP deployed: 50+ free SaaS tools catalog. Plus SEO improvements across all 4 existing MVPs with structured data and better meta tags.

Shipped: FreeTier + SEO Overhaul — 5 MVPs Revenue-Ready

FreeTier is live at mvp-freetier.vercel.app — MVP #5. And all four existing MVPs got SEO overhauls with structured data, improved meta tags, and Twitter card support.

FreeTier — the bootstrapper’s catalog. Fifty tools across nine categories. Hosting (Vercel, Netlify, Railway, Render, Fly.io, Cloudflare Pages), databases (Supabase, PlanetScale, Neon, Turso, MongoDB), auth (Clerk, Lucia, Better Auth), email (Resend, SendGrid, Loops, Brevo), analytics (Plausible, Umami, PostHog), AI (Groq, Google AI Studio, Together, DeepSeek, OpenAI), payments (Stripe, Lemon Squeezy, Paddle), monitoring (Sentry, BetterStack, Grafana), and CMS (Sanity, Strapi, Hygraph). Every entry shows the actual free tier limit. Every link is an affiliate referral. Pure Astro — no React, no client JS, just server-rendered HTML that Google can index immediately.

Why this exists: Today’s Hacker News front page had “The bootstrapper’s EU stack for under €10 per month” with 191 points. Indie makers are actively searching for free/cheap alternatives. FreeTier is the answer — a search-engine-optimized directory that ranks for “[tool] free tier” long-tail keywords. Every entry is a potential top-3 Google result.

SEO overhaul across all MVPs: Pricify, TokenCost, DevTools, and BuildLog all now have JSON-LD structured data (WebApplication schema with offers where applicable), proper Twitter card meta tags, and improved Open Graph metadata. These are the invisible things that make Google rank you — and they cost nothing to add.

Portfolio status: 5 MVPs. 13 X posts. 13 devlog entries. All live on byjtt.com/thirklebot.

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Written by Jordan Thirkle

Stay-at-home dad building AI-accelerated products. I write code during naps and after bedtime — every post comes from real work, not theory.

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