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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?

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Post by skunkworker »

flexdinesh wrote: post #19

Not a company but I’ve been experimenting with different tech stack options over the last 6 months to find a simple tech stack with an independent frontend and an independent backend with a hosted database. The goal is not just to build but also be able to maintain without much complexity and not spend a lot of money on hosting. Backend: Building a REST/GraphQL API that could be deployed to Cloudflare workers is a no…

You could use something like the cockroachdb free tier, its pretty close in Postgres in syntax, with some minor differences.

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

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Post by aaronbrethorst »

Hosting on Render.

Stack: Postgresql+Rails+Hotwire.

I really dig Stimulus and Turbo Frames. It took me a little while to really wrap my head around Turbo Streams. I think the documentation is pretty bad compared to the rest of the Hotwire stack, but—holy moly—once I had it working, it's really like a superpower for front-end development. Using Turbo Streams reminds me a bit of the sort of 'head exploding' moments I had first working with Rails back in 2007 or so. https://www.hotwired.dev

UI: I use Tailwind and Tailwind UI, and aggressively componentize the UI with ViewComponent to make it easier and more manageable to build reusable components and to keep from shooting myself in the foot. Tailwind would be frustrating to use if you crafted bespoke UI elements on every page, but it's an absolute godsend if you're componentizing all of your UI. (Also, if you're not componentizing your UI, why are you wasting so much of your time?) https://www.tailwindcss.com

APM: I use https://skylight.io for performance monitoring, and https://sentry.io for exception tracking.

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

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Post by jacob_rezi »

mhammerc wrote: post #9

App: Expo, React-Native, Typescript, Apollo Client Server: Node.js, GraphQL, TypeGraphql, Apollo Server, PostgresQL 14, Redis Website: Webflow (great for a good website with minimal work) Hosting: Digital Ocean (it’s cheap but I prefer GCP) Internal tools: Retool

whats the url?

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

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Post by rishsriv »

Building a no-code data workspace

Backend: Cloudflare Durable Objects for the consumer-facing app, Python cronjobs on a GCP hosted VM for background task processing, FastAPI for self-hosted vector search

Frontend: Nextjs. Antd as UI framework, Highcharts for charts. Hosted on Vercel

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

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Post by franky47 »

TypeScript monolith based on the following:

Server-side: Node.js, Fastify, Prisma, Handlebars (email templating)

Front-end: Next.js, Chakra UI, React Query, Comlink (web workers), Dexie (IndexedDB), Recharts, Formik.

Tooling: TypeScript, ESBuild, Jest, Playwright

Backing services: PostgreSQL, Redis, MailPace (transactional emails)

Deployment/Ops: GitHub Actions, Clever Cloud hosting

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

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Post by sandreas »

There once were discussions on HN, e.g. [1] about listennotes blog posts[2][3] - which, while maybe outdated, in my opinion are still pure gold.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20985875

[2]: https://www.listennotes.com/blog/the-boring-technology-behin...

[3]: https://www.listennotes.com/blog/good-enough-engineering-to-...

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