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

#101

Post by darkstarsys » Wed, Aug 25, 2021, 11:23 AM UTC

My app is https://bioviz-studio.com, a web-based tool to create beautiful video visualizations of molecular structures. App itself is at https://app.bioviz-studio.com.

Front end: Vue, vuetify, vuex, NGL, three.js/webgl, d3.js, 100% typescript, yarn, webpack Back end: node.js, express, Firebase, GCE, Blender, ffmpeg, docker, CUDA

Why? Vue for pretty UI & ease of coding, NGL for beautiful molecular graphics, Firebase because it makes getting from 0 to 1 easy, Blender because of Cycles renderer & scriptability.

Have choices impacted success? Definitely! Faster iteration leads to better UX, good architecture leads to stronger foundation, and standard tech means I can on-board a contractor when needed.

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

#102

Post by aparks517 » Wed, Aug 25, 2021, 11:25 AM UTC

Niche music streaming service http://lofi.limo/

Front end: plain JavaScript

Back end: Phoenix and Elixir, Postgres, OpenBSD

Deployment: tmux on a bare-metal server at a local colocation facility

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

#103

Post by sdmac99 » Wed, Aug 25, 2021, 11:25 AM UTC

As a solo dev working in the public sector I recently moved to using Nim.

Backend: Jester (Nim) Front-end: Karax (Nim) Db: sqlite/mariadb Host: digital ocean

I find that I can implement features much faster and with less code compared to my previous Go/Js stack.

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

#104

Post by ecmascript » Wed, Aug 25, 2021, 11:26 AM UTC

gpas wrote: post #54

ecmascript wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Tell me about it, I also use some professional CAD tools (Revit) but on my day job. I hate to say it, but maybe no one would really care if you would pirate it? It just doesn't seem right to spend so much money on such expensive software that is probably that expensive due to big business using it and no competition.

Looking at the workflow I guess it's SOLIDWORKS. I used to pirate everything, but is it a solution? In the past perhaps, I wanted to use expensive software, I was experimenting, didn't have the means to buy a license, and there weren't many alternatives to mainstream software, either proprietary or free. But nowadays things has changed for the better, so I try to build my workflow around what I can afford. On a tange…

> I used to pirate everything, but is it a solution?

Well it could be a solution if you are just starting out. CAD is very complex stuff so it's not likely that there will be a good open source replacement to Revit for example any time soon.

I really don't want to pirate software in general but if the license is like $2500 / yearly it's such a ridicolous amount that there is no good options left.

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

#105

Post by rawoke083600 » Wed, Aug 25, 2021, 11:29 AM UTC

linux,mysql,php,svelte,bootstrap and Go for any "heavy-lifting"

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

#106

Post by delgaudm » Wed, Aug 25, 2021, 11:31 AM UTC

Something different. I'm a Voice Actor, my "tech stack" is Reaper-iZotope

My "business stack" is Zoho One, which has been fantastic for managing everything else that isn't my tech stack (crm, website, billing, books, docs, mail, file storage, etc...)

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

#107

Post by strzibny » Wed, Aug 25, 2021, 11:31 AM UTC

kubami wrote: post #79

f6v wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How time flies... React, GraphQL and Terraform are considered boring and stable.

Fair enough for the GraphQL. However I'd say React is so widely use I'd say it is boring and stable (as the frontend tech goes) Terraform, well, what is the alternative? Clicking through web interfaces, or bash scripting the cloud-provider CLIs.

Terraform hit 1.0 quite recently, so let's wait for all that boring and stable please, otherwise the words lose meaning...

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

#108

Post by Glench » Wed, Aug 25, 2021, 11:32 AM UTC

Take payments in browser extensions: https://extensionpay.com

- $5/month Digital Ocean server

- HTTP server: pm2 / Node / Express

- Database: SQLite (because it's fast and needs fewer resources and less configuration than others)

- Front/backend - custom full-stack Svelte framework.

- Analytics: GA

- Email: Mailgun

- Uptime monitoring: Nine9s (https://nine9s.cloud/ from another solo dev I believe)

The Svelte framework I made is really cool. It makes it really easy to have server-rendered pages (for search engines and fast initial page load), pre-compiled static CSS, code-splitting per page, and automatically generated JSON APIs per page that re-render the Svelte component, as well as lets me use Svelte on the front-end which makes development much easier for me. Example code here: https://github.com/Glench/full-stack-svelte-prototype/

The tech stack has basically no effect on success as far as I can tell except that it's fast for me to develop.

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

#109

Post by ykevinator3 » Wed, Aug 25, 2021, 11:33 AM UTC

darkstarsys wrote: post #101

My app is https://bioviz-studio.com , a web-based tool to create beautiful video visualizations of molecular structures. App itself is at https://app.bioviz-studio.com . Front end: Vue, vuetify, vuex, NGL, three.js/webgl, d3.js, 100% typescript, yarn, webpack Back end: node.js, express, Firebase, GCE, Blender, ffmpeg, docker, CUDA Why? Vue for pretty UI & ease of coding, NGL for beautiful molecular graphics, Firebase…

This is amazing

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

#110

Post by ykevinator3 » Wed, Aug 25, 2021, 11:35 AM UTC

welanes wrote: post #97

I'm building https://simplescraper.io - data extraction in the spirit of the late Kimono Labs. Front: Vue.js, Tailwind Back: Node.js, Firebase (Database, Hosting, Functions, Scheduler) Management: Airtable, Github, a 30,000 word README file

I loved kimono I hope you are successful and I will check out your product.