My SaaS makes $50K MRR and is built on vanilla Ruby on Rails and jQuery

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Post by tosh » Wed, May 03, 2023, 2:07 PM UTC

My SaaS makes $50K MRR and is built on vanilla Ruby on Rails and jQuery
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Re: My SaaS makes $50K MRR and is built on vanilla Ruby on Rails and jQuery

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Post by prottog » Wed, May 03, 2023, 3:30 PM UTC

There's a lot of money to be made out there using doing nothing but vanilla CRUD to make people's lives easier. Very, very few problems solvable by a webapp need special tools.

Re: My SaaS makes $50K MRR and is built on vanilla Ruby on Rails and jQuery

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Post by renewiltord » Wed, May 03, 2023, 3:33 PM UTC

That's what the levels.io guy does too. Everything runs on VPS with PHP etc.

The hard part of product-market fit is product-market fit not technology-product fit. And yep, these guys are probably champs at it.

I personally lean towards Rails for web apps I might make too, but in the past there were lots of things that made it painful. Like the sassc gems forcing a 4 min build time for native extensions, shit like that. The ecosystem was whacky. But in the end, for web dev I'm far more productive in that.

Re: My SaaS makes $50K MRR and is built on vanilla Ruby on Rails and jQuery

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Post by dimmke » Wed, May 03, 2023, 3:42 PM UTC

But if you don’t already know a backend framework, Rails is probably not the best choice to learn at this point.

Re: My SaaS makes $50K MRR and is built on vanilla Ruby on Rails and jQuery

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Post by zamnos » Wed, May 03, 2023, 4:03 PM UTC

dimmke wrote: post #4

But if you don’t already know a backend framework, Rails is probably not the best choice to learn at this point.

what is, then, in your estimation?

Re: My SaaS makes $50K MRR and is built on vanilla Ruby on Rails and jQuery

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Post by trilobyte » Wed, May 03, 2023, 4:16 PM UTC

zamnos wrote: post #5

dimmke wrote: post #4

But if you don’t already know a backend framework, Rails is probably not the best choice to learn at this point.

what is, then, in your estimation?

Rails is fine, any Python framework is fine, Spring Boot is fine, whatever the PHP hotness is is also fine, some NodeJS frameworks are also probably fine.

Re: My SaaS makes $50K MRR and is built on vanilla Ruby on Rails and jQuery

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Post by foundart » Wed, May 03, 2023, 4:22 PM UTC

dimmke wrote: post #4

But if you don’t already know a backend framework, Rails is probably not the best choice to learn at this point.

What alternatives would you suggest?

Re: My SaaS makes $50K MRR and is built on vanilla Ruby on Rails and jQuery

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Post by mwint » Wed, May 03, 2023, 4:25 PM UTC

foundart wrote: post #7

dimmke wrote: post #4

But if you don’t already know a backend framework, Rails is probably not the best choice to learn at this point.

What alternatives would you suggest?