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Ask HN: What is your goto stack when building a MVP and why?

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Re: Ask HN: What is your goto stack when building a MVP and why?

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Post by tanin »

Heroku Postgres + Heroku + Any framework that you are comfortable with

For me, it's Play + Vue (shameless plug: https://github.com/GIVESocialMovement/sbt-vuefy).

The real time sink is not development. It's ops. Configuring server, making sure it's secure and online at all time, rotating logs, backing up database regularly, no-downtime deployment.

I'm using SQL because it's more flexible than a NoSQL solution. You don't need to plan in advance how to model your data. Just add a new index, and it works decently enough. I can also modify data without building a specialized admin UI.

Re: Ask HN: What is your goto stack when building a MVP and why?

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Post by mpoteat »

pbiggar wrote: post #4

We're building a new tool which makes it really easy to build backends, and MVPs are particularly easy. We literally built someone's product with them during a one hour onboarding earlier. https://darklang.com (or email me: paul@darklang.com)

I can't find any code syntax examples on the website.

Re: Ask HN: What is your goto stack when building a MVP and why?

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Post by AlchemistCamp »

For me it's Elixir + Phoenix because it's what I build fastest with. While it's not the very most performant stack in the world, it's built for scaling and can handle far more users than anything I've built with has gotten.

Usually for the MVP, I'll just stick with a traditional back-end MVC app and take advantage of all the Phoenix generators. As it gets a bit bigger, I might bring in Vue components on specific pages.

Once an app is really getting larger, I might bring in TypeScript on the front-end. I pretty much stick with Postgres the whole way unless there's a really compelling reason to do otherwise.

Disclosure: I run https://alchemist.camp, which teaches Elixir and Phoenix, but this screencasting project was the result of how much value I found in using Elixir for my last startup, not the reason I'm a fan of it now.

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