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

I would have imagined PaaS offerings like Heroku (where you get an SRE team for cheap) would be popular, but it seems not. Can anyone explain why?

It depends on your requirements. I have been building www.confluo.app, a social task assistant, in my part-time for about 2 years now. I wanted it:

1) to target both iOS and Android devices

2) to be real-time for social networking and collaborative tasks

3) available in both offline and online modes

4) to have no cost of developing and testing with small audience.

Turned out I could achieve all of the above using Flutter + Firebase (Auth & Firestore).

Edit; sorry I misread your comment somehow! I will leave my response anyway. But it is not actually relevant to your comment; sorry about that. I agree with you, I guess the ‘even compared’ threw me off; laravel is pretty painless imho so maybe it does actually apply?

What is bad about laravel for development experience? I don’t like php or js or, dare I say it, ts (I don’t mind the language and like the type system but the tooling is so rotten; hope deno will fix things), so I often experiment in projects by taking something else like Phoenix, IHP or Dioxus etc and it’s nice, but you always run into the lack of help when stuck. I did a large project with a team with laravel the past months and was really surprised how productive it is; we did basically the impossible in a very short time. Mostly because plug-ins and the bizarre amount of capable people willing to help all over the place.

Still don’t like the language but it’s very productive and robust imho.

Wordpress I did quite a lot with as well but I will never like it; it is too messy to be clean and too clean to be a mess; it doesn’t fit my way of thinking either way.

I feel real joy not having to use JS for anything though; things like liveview/livewire/blazor/dioxus etc really make my life better.

Sorry for being overdue! I have just asked once a year when I remembered it, love the fact that someone else appreciated it enough to continue asking when I forgot

> where did you find a good developer for Wordpress?

I was kind of lucky that my brother in law has a software development firm in Slovakia. So I hired one of his employees with the agreement that I would just pay for his time, and there are no deadlines. That means this developer could work on my stuff in between their other projects (which do have deadlines). This way I could get a good deal on the rate.

My fail plan was to follow him up closely, and if he didn't deliver the first week I would be able to pay for his time and don't request more work (don't want to get in arguments with family ;)). But it all went great!

For you, I would try out someone and give them a tiny thing to start with. If they can deliver, let them do more. Since you're a developer you should be able to judge their work. That way you limit the loss when it doesn't work out.