Boring, but it works and I am very fast with it:
PHP with Laminas FW
MySQL
Bootstrap
jQuery
AWS SES
Twilio
Auth0
Google Workspace
Jira
Ask HN: Companies of one, what is your tech stack?
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Re: Ask HN: Companies of one, what is your tech stack?
#62https://moogle.cc is a fully functional React SPA blog with Bulma css for styling. Uses emails (yes you heard that right) as the CMS to extract content and images.
Interfacing with emails is through S3, API Gw, Cloudfront, lambdas (nodejs), and step functions. One small part of the product is on an Ec2 box. Everything else is serverless.
Re: Ask HN: Companies of one, what is your tech stack?
#63> What is your tech stack?
Backend: LAMP (Linux Apache Mysql Php)
Backend Framework: Php no framework only composer
Frontend Framework: Vuejs 2.6
Deployment: rsync
Hosting: contabo (8gb/€5)
Email: SES
Error reporting: Honeybadger (it's free)
> Why did you choose it?
It's something I've known my entire life and it works great for me.
Re: Ask HN: Companies of one, what is your tech stack?
#64I built an open source Reddit/HN clone:
The back-end is Node.js and PostgreSQL (no ORM). The front-end is plain HTML, plain CSS and plain JavaScript. I chose that stack because I wanted to try Node.js and Postgres, and I'm not a big fan of front-end frameworks. I don't think the stack matters but people think the site is fast.
Re: Ask HN: Companies of one, what is your tech stack?
#65I taught myself to program to build [redacted], a comparison website for phone contracts in the UK. Front end: plain JavaScript Back end: Node.js Host: $10 DigitalOcean droplet Web server: Nginx SSL: Let's Encrypt with certbot Proxy: Cloudflare Database: Postgres Caching: Redis Indexing: MeiliSearch I wanted to learn JavaScript and understand the fundamentals, so I used vanilla JavaScript for the front end without an…
Hey! This is brilliant!
Obviously you speak about the tech stack you use here, but your UX is absolutely perfect. I just used your product and got exactly what I wanted without even thinking. My brain didn't second-guess myself once. I didn't read anything superfluous - in fact I don't think I read anything at all. The search box and images of the phones did it all for me, and the autocomplete for search was perfect. I loved that only after I searched did it give me the option to refine (like size of model)
I usually use comparethemarket or something similar when shopping around, and it's a bit of a pain - though I only realised how much of a pain since using yours.
I don't know how much conscious thought and work you put into the UX - as you mainly talk about the tech - but it's great. Well done!
Re: Ask HN: Companies of one, what is your tech stack?
#66OP and respondents can you update your question and the answers to include mention the scale of the business in terms of traffic, customer served, revenue.
Re: Ask HN: Companies of one, what is your tech stack?
#67I turn existing websites into apps at https://webtoapp.design I went with Flask (python) + Bootstrap for my website. The apps are created in Flutter, which was a great choice looking back on it. This allows me to have 1 codebase for both Android & iOS apps (most customers want both). If developing an app for just Android would be 100% effort, developing an app for Android and iOS with Flutter is around 130% effort I'…
How long did you spend on the Droste effect on your homepage? :D
Haha i spent like 3 days on that image in total. The starting point of the image is from undraw.co (i think it's called "web app").
First I wanted to use recursion but in the end it was a lot easier to just make a simple loop to nest the image 3 times or so (beyond that it just unnecessarily increases the DOM size without a big visual difference)
Also make sure to hover the image, it's animated! I love how the nested images get animated too.
All in all it was fun to work on and I learned a lot about SVG while I had nothing super important to do :)
Re: Ask HN: Companies of one, what is your tech stack?
#68I taught myself to program to build [redacted], a comparison website for phone contracts in the UK. Front end: plain JavaScript Back end: Node.js Host: $10 DigitalOcean droplet Web server: Nginx SSL: Let's Encrypt with certbot Proxy: Cloudflare Database: Postgres Caching: Redis Indexing: MeiliSearch I wanted to learn JavaScript and understand the fundamentals, so I used vanilla JavaScript for the front end without an…
this is fantastic- do you get an affiliate fee?
i'm looking a new phone and total cost of ownership might swing buying it through this site
where do you source the deals? is there an api?
Re: Ask HN: Companies of one, what is your tech stack?
#69I taught myself to program to build [redacted], a comparison website for phone contracts in the UK. Front end: plain JavaScript Back end: Node.js Host: $10 DigitalOcean droplet Web server: Nginx SSL: Let's Encrypt with certbot Proxy: Cloudflare Database: Postgres Caching: Redis Indexing: MeiliSearch I wanted to learn JavaScript and understand the fundamentals, so I used vanilla JavaScript for the front end without an…
Hey! This is brilliant! Obviously you speak about the tech stack you use here, but your UX is absolutely perfect. I just used your product and got exactly what I wanted without even thinking. My brain didn't second-guess myself once. I didn't read anything superfluous - in fact I don't think I read anything at all. The search box and images of the phones did it all for me, and the autocomplete for search was perfect.…
Thank you, your comment made my day!
I come from a design background. I didn't like the UI/UX of similar comparison sites, so my aim was to improve upon what's already out there. Glad to see someone noticed!
Re: Ask HN: Companies of one, what is your tech stack?
#70I turn existing websites into apps at https://webtoapp.design I went with Flask (python) + Bootstrap for my website. The apps are created in Flutter, which was a great choice looking back on it. This allows me to have 1 codebase for both Android & iOS apps (most customers want both). If developing an app for just Android would be 100% effort, developing an app for Android and iOS with Flutter is around 130% effort I'…
Wow sounds fun, the idea for the website sounds fun as well and congrats on the launch. Small suggestion, could you not automatically display the pricing according to the location of the IP address of the user. My IP is being guessed as its from Indonesia and I see pricing that I am unable to read. And I don't see an easy way to look at the pricing in a more familiar currency. Far too many websites do this, its so an…
Thanks for the feedback! That makes sense, thanks for letting me know. I fetch the prices via an API from my payment processor, which does the guessing.
I'll add it to my todo list to offer a manual override :)