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Technology & Providers

A quick tour of the services powering 8bitsmith—from hosting and auth to payments, email, and creative tooling. Built for fun and run by Kaiser Pister.

Vercel

Hosting, deployments, environment config

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Stripe

Payments, subscriptions, invoicing

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Supabase

Database, auth, storage, Edge Functions

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Resend

Transactional email delivery

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Cloudflare

DNS, proxy/CDN, R2 object storage

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Namecheap

Domain registration

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BackgroundErase.net

Background removal for assets

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Gemini

Image generation and prompting

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Codex

Assisted code authoring and refactors

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Lucide Icons

Icon set used across UI

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Mercury

Banking for payouts and treasury

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html2png.dev

Automated screenshots for marketing assets

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Frontend
  • Next.js App Router (React 19)
  • Tailwind CSS + custom theming
  • Lucide icons and shadcn/ui primitives
Backend & Data
  • Supabase Postgres + row-level security
  • Supabase Auth + magic links
  • Stripe webhooks for billing state
Media & Assets
  • Cloudflare R2 for generated assets
  • BackgroundErase.net for cutouts
  • Gemini for image generation
DevOps
  • Vercel for CI/CD
  • Cloudflare DNS/proxy in front of app
  • Resend for transactional email