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Not really a company yet, just a WIP product. Vanillajs for the frontend, crystal for the backend, postgres for the db, fly.io for the app hosting, Cloudinary for the CDN, trello and Github issues for management. IMO, simple vanillajs blows any other js framework out of the water in simplicity. Crystal is an amazing and very performant language for the backend. If you love ruby, you would love Crystal.
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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.
Hosted on a simple Debian Linux VPS with https://tilaa.com. Running nginx with Let's Encrypt certs.
Built in Ruby on Rails with PostgreSQL for the database and Stimulus as JavaScript framework. Charts are generated with ChartJS and CSS is using Bulma framework.
Lots of AWS credit for 2 years from YC Startup School
- ECS / Fargate / Docker
- Deployed via Terraform and Github Actions
- Next.js / Bootstrap, mostly from boilerplate Stripe made
Chose bc I'm familiar with the backend. New to Next.js but boilerplate got me to an MVP the fastest.
Wouldn't consider myself successful yet but I'm happy developing on my stack and that goes a lot way when I'm working mornings/nights on it.
What is your tech stack?
- Frontend (JavaScript, NextJS)
- API (Golang)
- Observability (Honeycomb.io - for events, k8s metrics, visual data analysis)
- Infrastructure Hosting (Kubernetes - container platform to run it all, in my case Google Kubernetes Engine)
- Deployment (Terraform - all deploy components are written in HCL)
- TLS (Let's Encrypt)
Why did you choose it?
I wanted to have a minimal set of tools to manage my infrastructure, with the varied workloads of (API, game server, website, etc.) building containers and running them on the Kubernetes platform made it a one stop shop for storage, network and compute uses.
Additionally on the deployment side Terraform providers and in some cases modules were already available for me to use for bootstrapping specific infra components I am interested in.
Do you think your choices had any impact on your success?
It's allowed me to create a large amount of boilerplate, so I'm at a good point if I wanted to add more servers of different types it a relatively easy change compared to how I managed it all manually years ago.
This side project has allowed me to develop a technological skillset that definitely have helped me critically think in a software development career route.
- Backend: Flask + SQLAlchemy + Celery
- Frontend: Angular + Bootstrap
- Database: MySQL + Elasticsearch + Redis
- Deployment: Kubernetes on GKE
Reason I'm asking is because I'm trying to write a new app from scratch but I'm getting demotivated having to implement things like users, organisations, and other things that is essentially just re-inventing the wheel.
- Server: $5/month Ubuntu server from DigitalOcean
- HTTP Server: Caddy
- SSL: Caddy
- Backend: Ruby on Rails
- Database: PostgreSQL
- Frontend: Vanilla JS + Vue.js + Inertia.js + Boostrap
- Email: Mailgun
- Storage: S3 (very low usage)
- Backup: Daily on Dropbox using rclone
I'm not actively working on this anymore but I've users from a couple of organisations using the product which generates a good passive income
On a similar note, has anyone used a pre-built "saas starter kit" or the like? If so, how is it going? Do you regret using it? Reason I'm asking is because I'm trying to write a new app from scratch but I'm getting demotivated having to implement things like users, organisations, and other things that is essentially just re-inventing the wheel.
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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?
Thank you. I do get an affiliate fee for each sale. Most retailers provide csv feeds when you join their affiliate program. Parsing and organising the data can be quite difficult as there is no uniform structure and most retailers provide bad/incomplete data. There are a lot of weird edge cases I need to work around.
This sounds like a potentially more valuable product to me. Any time I find myself doing integration work like that in an e-commerce setting I think "hm, could this be the Stripe of X".