Indie iOS stack
B2B & productivity app stack
The reliability-first stack for a productivity app people run their work on and expect to just work.
When people use your app for work, the bar shifts from novelty to trust. Data has to be correct and portable, releases have to be reliable, and you need to understand which features actually drive retention and expansion — because a churned business account is expensive to replace.
This stack spends a little more than a hobby app would, deliberately, on the parts that protect trust: a real database, dependable CI/CD, and analytics mature enough to answer product questions across a whole team's usage.
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What we’d run, and why
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Supabase
Supabase gives you Postgres with row-level security and SQL you can audit — the right foundation when customer data correctness and export are non-negotiable.
RevenueCat
RevenueCat manages entitlements and renewals across plans and platforms, so tiered or seat-based pricing does not become a receipt-validation project.
Alternatives
Amplitude
Amplitude is built for shared, cross-functional decision-making — cohorts, retention, and feature adoption that hold up when the app is a serious part of someone's workflow.
Sentry
Sentry's release health and alerting matter more when a crash interrupts someone's paid work; you want to know before the support email arrives.
Alternatives
Codemagic
Codemagic gives you hosted, reproducible builds and reliable signing, which is worth the cost once releases are frequent and a broken build blocks paying customers.
Compatibility notes
How these tools fit together
Mirror RevenueCat plans into Supabase for feature gating
Forward RevenueCat webhooks to Supabase so each account's plan and seat count live next to your data. Server-side feature gates then read from Supabase, which keeps enforcement consistent even when the client is offline or stale.
Key Amplitude to accounts, not just devices
Use group analytics with your Supabase account id so Amplitude reports adoption and retention per organization. For B2B, the account is the unit that renews or churns, not the individual device.
Run fastlane lanes inside Codemagic
Codemagic can execute your existing fastlane lanes, so you keep scripted metadata and signing steps while gaining hosted, reproducible build machines — no need to choose one or the other.
Tie Sentry releases to your Codemagic build number
Stamp the Sentry release with the Codemagic build id and upload dSYMs from the build, so a regression alert points straight back to the exact CI build that shipped it.
When to upgrade
Amplitude and Codemagic are the two lines worth paying for first here; keep everything else lean until team seats or build minutes force the question.
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