Ask HN: Choosing an entrepreneur's stack in late 2018? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Choosing an entrepreneur's stack in late 2018?

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Post by nikolasburk » Thu, Dec 13, 2018, 8:49 AM UTC

Backend: GraphQL + TypeScript with Prisma on top of a MongoDB/PostgreSQL Frontend: React / React Native + Apollo Client

Then use 3rd-party services for the "standard" parts of your business logic (like Auth0 for authentication).

This stack allows to move incredibly fast on the front- and backend and really lets you focus on building value-adding features instead of dealing with complexity that comes from e.g. database workflows (Prisma) on the backend or state management on the frontend (Apollo Client).

EDIT: As a side-note, companies like Labelbox.com (raised 3,9 mio seed round) or Hyrecar.com (recently IPOed) are using a similar stack and have been vastly successful with it.

Re: Ask HN: Choosing an entrepreneur's stack in late 2018?

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Post by nikolasburk » Thu, Dec 13, 2018, 9:56 AM UTC

rufugee wrote: post #15

bmajz wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They even offer a hosted product now, so you won't have to worry about the ops side of things either.

I'll give this a look. Thanks very much!

Be aware that MDG is now almost entirely shifting their attention to GraphQL and Apollo. I don't think Meteor.js will be maintained much longer.

Re: Ask HN: Choosing an entrepreneur's stack in late 2018?

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Post by rufugee » Thu, Dec 13, 2018, 2:06 PM UTC

qqqwerty wrote: post #29

I am in a similar boat, going to try and kick off a side project during this xmas break. As others mentioned, you should probably consider reducing scope and picking one platform to MVP on. I was also planning on doing a multi-platform project, but after some thought, it felt like doing the MVP on mobile first would be best (for the project I have in mind, it felt like I could get more features, faster, into a mobile…

You sound a lot like me (not a designer). Definitely going to look into flutter plans for the web. Thanks!

Re: Ask HN: Choosing an entrepreneur's stack in late 2018?

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Post by countryqt30 » Thu, Dec 13, 2018, 2:17 PM UTC

I'm in a highly similar role, and doing MVPs for billionaire investors and CXOs who want to push and test their side-projects on a monthly basis. My answer would be: the "correct stack" (the one to have maximum impact with minimum time commitment) highly depends on the business idea itself: is it database-heavy, network speed critical, big data, AI requirements, related to crypto, related to offline businesses, .... Efficiency of languages and frameworks mostly depends on the libraries of the language, not anything else. I'd be happy to jump on a call with you, let's connect, email me at jakobm@mit.edu and I'll share my LinkedIn and references!

Re: Ask HN: Choosing an entrepreneur's stack in late 2018?

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Post by billconan » Thu, Dec 13, 2018, 9:20 PM UTC

phodo wrote: post #28

billconan wrote: post #6

I highly recommend vuejs for the frontend. I can't imagine I would make a webapp without it. My backend is in c++, because I'm more fluent in it than any other languages. For database, I'm using mongodb. I heard bad sayings about it, but I decided to stick to it, because I like its programming interface, I think it's easier than using sql.

What c++ framework if any do you use ?

I wrote my own c++ framework out of tcp socket.