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Third-party services

Outside services you plug in instead of building.

Common ones handle email (Resend, Postmark), payments (Stripe), file storage (S3, R2, Vercel Blob), search (Algolia), forms (Formspree) and AI (Claude). Each one adds a dependency, a cost and a privacy consideration.

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API Webhook

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Code and data that run on a server instead of in the visitor's browser.

API Database Authentication Environment variables & secrets Webhook

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