Stacks
Stacks
Technology bundles organized for specific classes of problems. The unit of Compute that captains pull on. Each Stack page teaches the bundle: what's in it, how to wire it up, what tradeoffs to know, what to avoid.
Start here
- Field Report
Cloudflare Edge Stack
Workers + D1 + R2 + Pages + Access. The default backbone for every MaxShip site. Start with the case for Cloudflare over Vercel.
Live - Blueprint
The Almost-Free Live Website Stack
Domain + Cloudflare free tier + Astro + Claude. The cheapest path to a live site that compounds — build and publish it with AI, no code.
Live - Field Report
Compute / AI Coding Stack
Claude Code and Codex — the captain's development environment. Which to use, and the honest split between them.
Live
Build something with this
- Outcome
Build a website in 14 days
From idea to live URL with email capture and a domain. Three-tier path: open-source kit → Blueprint → embedded Fractional CMO.
Coming - Outcome
Set up email forwarding for $0–$5/mo
Cloudflare Email Routing + Resend free tier. Receive at custom domain, send transactional, all for under $5/mo.
Coming
All stacks
Nothing's been published in this section yet.
The first Stack pages ship over the next two weeks (MSC-33 catalog). Subscribe to the Captain's Log to know when each lands.