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Mara Lindqvist curates the ShipGarden gallery, where we test open-source building blocks so we can own the stack that funds the life.
UploadThing, Amazon S3, and Cloudflare R2 compared for Next.js file uploads in 2026: the egress-driven cost math, the DX tradeoffs, and which one to pick.
Resend, SendGrid, Postmark and Amazon SES compared on real 2026 pricing, free tiers, deliverability, and the open-source react-email layer, with a decision guide for Next.js SaaS builders.
Drizzle or Prisma for your Next.js SaaS starter in 2026? A curator's honest, source-checked head-to-head: bundle size, serverless, the Prisma 7 Rust-free rewrite, migrations, and where each one loses.
ShipGarden's hands-on June 2026 review of Refine v5 (@refinedev/core@5.0.12) as the open-source React framework for an admin or internal-tool starter. Five deploy paths, real per-month costs, an honest react-admin / Appsmith / ToolJet comparison, and the v4-to-v5 migration story you should plan for.
ShipGarden's hands-on review of CopilotKit as a Next.js agent UI in June 2026. The setup walkthrough, the four comparison axes, three deploy paths, and where it loses to Vercel ai-chatbot and Mastra.
