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

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Post by brundolf »

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…

> Each of these servers cost €1200 per month

I see on Patreon that you're getting $275.43/month from supporters. How does that work out financially?

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

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Post by quixoticaxolotl »

brundolf wrote: post #241
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…

> Each of these servers cost €1200 per month I see on Patreon that you're getting $275.43/month from supporters. How does that work out financially?

From the website:

> Pixeldrain is struggling to get by financially. Because anyone can upload anything it's hard to find reputable advertisers who want to advertise on pixeldrain. Every month the ad revenue just barely covers the bandwidth costs. If this continues I will have to resort to adding more shady ads, or reducing the file size and bandwidth limits. That's not something I would like to do.

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

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Post by quixoticaxolotl »

brundolf wrote: post #241
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…

> Each of these servers cost €1200 per month I see on Patreon that you're getting $275.43/month from supporters. How does that work out financially?

From the website:

> Pixeldrain is struggling to get by financially. Because anyone can upload anything it's hard to find reputable advertisers who want to advertise on pixeldrain. Every month the ad revenue just barely covers the bandwidth costs. If this continues I will have to resort to adding more shady ads, or reducing the file size and bandwidth limits. That's not something I would like to do

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

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Post by kylegawley »

gizdan wrote: post #117

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.

I built a SaaS starter kit (https://usegravity.app) and use the same kit in a few SaaS products. I'm obviously biased, but I would never start a new project from scratch for several reasons:

1. Building boilerplate code takes a long time to do things properly and is often never as simple as we may anticipate.

2. The time is better spent on building features for customers.

3. As you mentioned, it's painful to build this stuff.

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

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Post by nirushiv »

pawelwentpawel wrote: post #83

https://flat.social - a webapp for building playful virtual spaces for meetings and socials. (demo here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JO9o1DobMzs ) Front-end: Typescript, Next.js, Styled Components Back-end: Typescript, Node.js, Express, Socket.io, Express Audio/video: Mediasoup Deployment: Github workflows, Docker Analytics: GA, Mixpanel, Sentry Hosting: A couple CPU-optimised droplets from Digital Ocean, Firebas…

This is neat! Two questions for you: - how does firebase fit into your stack? I’ve looked at them in the past but their pricing potentially changing makes me nervous

- how many concurrent websocket connectione are you able to support per server? Anecdotally, it seems socket.io struggles to scale beyond 10k or so

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

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Post by nip »

I run https://simplePDF.eu.

It’s a web-based PDF editor: add text fields, checkboxes, pictures (watermark) and signatures to otherwise non-interactive PDF documents.

Tech stack:

Server: DigitalOcean droplet (10€/month but only because I run all my projects on it, the 5€ one would otherwise suffice)

Database: Postgres

Frontend: NextJS

Backend: NodeJS (koa) serving a GraphQL API

Email: Mailgun

Payment processor: Stripe

I chose this tech stack because I’m proficient in it, which allows me to focus on shipping rather than figuring out how to ship.

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

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Post by sergiotapia »

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…

Curious to learn more about CockroachDB's problems you had. They market themselves as a turn-key solution to globally distributed databases, it's worrying that you had a problem with that very use case. Thanks for the additional details!

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

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Post by c_o_n_v_e_x »

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 built up my CAD and rendering chops with the free tier of fusion360. Legit and cheap way to learn the basics.

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

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Post by gtvwill »

One man band MSP.

I use ms365 for everything on the software end. Mikrotik for any network hardware.

I used to be more flexible, but found I lost money due to "trying" to work with everything and help everyone. Mikrotik isn't the easiest...but it has forced me to learn what i now would consider basic entry level knowledge about networking for business.

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

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Post by stoicjumbotron »

danjac wrote: post #34

I run a side project podcatcher site https://jcasts.io . As I don't have a lot of spare time and this isn't making money, simple+cheap are important factors, so I stick with what I'm familiar with and only adopt new things when I have the need. - Django Enough said, really, it's a solid workhorse with a healthy ecosystem. The admin feature is very useful for simple backend data management. No other particular reason…

Really nice and fast UI. Will definitely have to check on Dokku.
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