Ask HN: Haven't worked for a while, best guide/advice to start a hobby project?

Start looking on UpWork, Fiverr etc...

A good developer is one who walked the road already.

Why not start as a junior in a real team, learn from better persons.

Learn the basics first ( eg.Clean Code).

Learn architecture after ( 4layer).

There will always be a nicer js stack, I have a lot of experience. But I also struggled how to set up the frontend stack upfront in Vue ( not single pages).

I would actually advice on . Net core, the documentation is great, visual studio community is great and a lot of work is done in c# + tutorials are widely available

It's the best formula to keep yourself accountable and keep going even in the less fun moment (because even in Greenfield hobby project there are shitty moment's)

If possible do it in pair programming, it's the best for sharing and learning from each other meanwhile

A tech stack is like a cookbook. Commercial cooks don’t dick around with cookbooks because if they ever want to make money they must be able to ship a product fast and scale their effort across multiple orders simultaneously. Cookbooks are written for a home user to slowly slave over a single entree as a cooking passion. Likewise a tech stack is for a corporate developer who has more time to burn and would rather dicking around with configuring things than making tough product decisions.

Not investing in a tech stack will force you to question your basic assumptions of architecture so that you focus first on the areas most important to your application. That puts your product first. As the application grows refactor as necessary.