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

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Post by pyros2097-dev »

Glench wrote: post #108

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 framewo…

This is pretty good. I like the concept where api and ui is in the same file. Different from sapper and nextjs but pretty interesting.

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

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Post by Fornax96 »

devcriollo wrote: post #130
Fornax96 wrote: post #123

I run a file sharing / content delivery platform called pixeldrain: https://pixeldrain.com The system serves 4 PB of data to 60 million visitors per month. I have served 30 PB and 700 million file views since I started tracking usage somewhere in 2018. I'll go from front to back: - Most of the frontend is plain HTML, CSS and JS. I have started transitioning some pages to Svelte. I like this framework for its speed an…

very popular service in latam (colombia,peru,mexico,venezuela)

Definitely. Here's a screenshot from my Cloudflare analytics: https://pixeldrain.com/u/dt92pNgf

Most of my users are Vietnamese. Unfortunately bandwidth is very expensive there, so I have to serve all that traffic from Europe.

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

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Post by traceroute66 »

The problem with this question is it is akin to those people on photography forums and elsewhere asking "what camera / lens / ISO /shutter speed / aperture" did you use ? As if somehow having the same combination will give them the same results.

Surely the correct and only answer is "the right tech stack for the job".

Trying to shoehorn everything into one chosen stack is only likely to end in dismal failure.

Switching stacks just because flavour of the month cool stack is code written in Foo with Bar library with a Foobar cloud backend is also only likely to end in dismal failure.

If a graph database is suitable for a project ... then use it. If cloud is suitable for a project... then use it. etc. etc.

Don't be a "Jack of all trades, master of none", jumping around programming languages and libraries just because its the cool thing to do.

The trouble is I see too many people over-egg the pudding on tech stacks. Perhaps especially when it comes to cloud services where they architect everything as if they were getting billions of hits per second and feel the need to justify using all cool cloud services buzz words like horizontal scaled event-driven, serverless computing platform.

Sometimes its better just to follow the KISS principle (Keep It Simple Stupid).

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

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Post by eabraham »

I run a Reddit Post Automation tool called Delay for Reddit: https://www.delayforreddit.com

The tech stack is:

- Ruby on Rails

- Postgres

- Redis

- Hosted on Heroku

I choose this stack because it was the technologies I was most familiar. Also, I knew it could solve the problems the business faced.

I do not think Tech Stack is the most important component to my success. Its important to choose a Stack which can solve the business's problems first and second having familiarity with the technology can make you more agile.

Spending time on SEO, marketing and advertising is where I can attribute most of my success.

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

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Post by cnity »

Aulig wrote: post #67
cnity wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

It sparked joy, I like it!

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

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Post by darkstarsys »

ykevinator3 wrote: post #109
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

Thanks!

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

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Post by siculars »

traceroute66 wrote: post #133

The problem with this question is it is akin to those people on photography forums and elsewhere asking "what camera / lens / ISO /shutter speed / aperture" did you use ? As if somehow having the same combination will give them the same results. Surely the correct and only answer is "the right tech stack for the job". Trying to shoehorn everything into one chosen stack is only likely to end in dismal failure. Switchi…

My takeaway from the ask is what can you get done as a “solopreneur” and which tools do you use to do it. It looks like there are many answers and no single “right” answer. I’m particularly interested to know why people pick the tools that they pick.

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

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Post by ChrisMarshallNY »

yakubin wrote: post #127
ChrisMarshallNY wrote: post #90

I have a couple of corporations: https://littlegreenviper.com https://riftvalleysoftware.com It seems most folks have "tech stacks," which, to me, means "Internet-based software applications, or SaaS." I write native apps for Apple devices (iOS/iPadOS, WatchOS, TVOS, and MacOS). Some, use Internet-derived services, but some are also standalone on the device, or use things like Bluetooth. My "Stack" is basically Xcode…

1. How do you handle bug reports? Do you use a ticketing system where your customers can report bugs? 2. Do you publish directly to the App Store, or do you send the application to the customer who publishes it for themselves?

1. I had originally set up a JIRA ticketing system, but never got bug reports, so I dismantled it. I dislike structure for the sake of structure.

These days, I get maybe one report, every couple of months. Most often, I find bugs, myself, through testing. I tend to deal with bugs immediately. A sticky pad on my desk, or a self-email, is usually sufficient.

On the app I'm currently developing, I use GitHub Issues to track bugs. Kinda quiet, but it's a good way to catalogue upcoming features. I still tend to fix bugs immediately. I run my projects as "constant beta," so I try to keep them bug-free, from the start.

Basically works pretty well.

2. I publish directly. I've had over 20 apps, but most have been deprecated, by now.

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

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Post by sideproject »

I run Newsy - https://www.newsy.co It turns your un-used domain names into a Reddit-like content aggregator.

I use

- Laravel - Vue - Postgres - Tailwind - Hosted on Vultr

This has been my go-to stack for quite some time. Very happy with it. Perfect combination for a mostly CRUD app.

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

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Post by shantnutiwari »

I dont run a company, but I am very pleased to see:

* Many founders are using Digital Ocean or Linode or something similar/simple, and not complicated k8s/aws setups

* Many founders are using boring but stable tech like python/django or rails or similar for the backend, and vanilla js for the frontend

Looks like where it matters, ie, shipping something, most are using boring but stable tech instead of Fad-of-the-week

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