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Re: Ask HN: Companies of one, what is your tech stack?

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Post by mceachen »

PhotoStructure is a self-hosted image manager.

The main app that my users run is written in TypeScript and runs with Node/Express/Vue/Knex/SQLite. Third party dependencies are only pulled in after a code review and are scanned with snyk and npm/yarn audit. You can see the current list of deps here: https://github.com/photostructure/photostructure-for-servers.... ExifTool (excellent metadata extraction) and Sharp (fast image processing via LibVips) deserve all the kudos I can muster.

Additionally, there are three droplets/virtual hosts that I run:

https://photostructure.com/ is a static Hugo site, served by nginx.

https://forum.photostructure.com/ is served by Discourse, which is a rails app.

The account subscription management website is written in TypeScript using Node/Express/Knex/PostgreSQL, clustered by pm2, and reverse proxied for https by Caddy. Billing is currently handled via Stripe Checkout.

At home, I have 10+ computers that help me with customer support as well as host GitHub Actions to run continuous integration tests on all supported platforms.

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Re: Ask HN: Companies of one, what is your tech stack?

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Post by Dracophoenix »

m12k wrote: post #35

Rails (6.1), Postgres, Redis, Sidekiq Hosted on Heroku, using Sentry for error tracking, New Relic for performance monitoring, Sendgrid for email. Recently ditched Google Analytics in favor of Plausible for general analytics and Ahoy (Rails middleware) for deeper in-house analytics. Using Intercom for support/chat widget, but planning to switch to Chatwoot. Considering moving off Heroku, but the most obvious contende…

What's your opinion on Vercel or Netlify hosting?

Re: Ask HN: Companies of one, what is your tech stack?

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Post by bhu1st »

sideproject wrote: post #45

I try to keep things very simple + boring for Newsy ( https://newsy.co ) - Linode Ubuntu - Vue - Laravel PHP - PostgreSQL - Tailwind That's it. Keeps me focused.

How are you doing business wise? Newsy sounds like a great platform to get value from left out domains.

Re: Ask HN: Companies of one, what is your tech stack?

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Post by whkthrwawy2022 »

I have a side project running https://words.hk (a Cantonese dictionary)

It uses a Django+sqlite backend, on a single AWS tiny instance. Frontend is mostly "VanillaJS". Traffic is relatively modest at a couple thousand hits per day. Been using this setup for 8+ years now. Wouldn't have chosen anything else, even in retrospect.

Re: Ask HN: Companies of one, what is your tech stack?

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Post by gingerlime »

lee101 wrote: post #115
gingerlime wrote: post #111

Earlier quoted context omitted.

OT but can these AIs generate text based on existing corpus? eg helpdesk system that suggests responses to (human) agents based on previous (human) questions and replies or a bank of frequent saved snippets/replies. edit: or find previous conversations with high similarity

Right now the text generation API can be used to do the conversational stuff along with a massive amount of other stuff like classification or adding questions about what is in text or how proper would respond to things for analysis purposes. There's an embeddings API for text/code/images that can bed used for the similar snippets stuff if you bring your own vector search engine like milvus etc, but eventually I'll s…

Thanks for the tip about milvus, which might help on its own. I’ll try the playground when I get a chance as well.
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