Four questions - what you're building, your team's scale, what you're optimizing for, and whether you have developers on hand - feed a fixed decision tree that outputs one specific stack: frontend, backend, database, hosting, and a rough time/cost estimate.

There's no live pricing lookup or AI call behind it. Each combination of answers maps to a hardcoded recommendation with a written rationale, the same way an agency would sketch an architecture on a first call.

What actually changes the result

The project type (SaaS, e-commerce, marketing site, or automation/API) picks the broad category of stack. Within that, the technical-background answer is often the biggest swing factor - a non-technical SaaS answer routes to Webflow + Wized + Xano, while a developer answer routes to Next.js, and the two share almost nothing.

Priority and scale act as tie-breakers inside a category: choosing 'budget' on a SaaS build favors a serverless setup with free-tier services, while 'security' or an 'enterprise' team size instead points at a Laravel/Inertia monolith with a managed Postgres database - a different backend language entirely, not just a config change.

What the numbers mean

The time and cost ranges shown with each result are estimates baked into the recommendation rules, not a live quote or current market pricing - treat them as a starting ballpark for planning a conversation, not a number to hold a vendor to.

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