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Ask HN: What's the stack for your "home-cooked meal" apps?

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Re: Ask HN: What's the stack for your "home-cooked meal" apps?

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Post by tejaskumar_ »

I love this question. Like @kassner said (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38880809), I also don't have a stack but typically stick to what excites me.

Right now, I'm really into:

- Frontend: Astro/SolidJS

- Database + API + Monitoring + Auth: Keel (https://keel.so)

- Desktop/Mobile wrapping: Tauri (https://tauri.app)

I know building native apps with web technologies is a bit lame since it's a glorified web view on native devices and thus is somewhat limited, but as a web developer this allows me to play in those worlds a bit more.

I've tried to learn Swift/Kotlin but haven't been able to get as far as I have with JavaScript yet.

Re: Ask HN: What's the stack for your "home-cooked meal" apps?

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Post by nickisnoble »

Rails, render, sqlite3.

Hotwire really is incredible (coming from someone who's primarily a JS dev in the past) and makes common things way easier.

The more I write ruby, it really feels like home cooking, whereas even the best JS frameworks (sveltekit + bun IMO) felt more like ...home maintenance? Plumbing?

Re: Ask HN: What's the stack for your "home-cooked meal" apps?

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Post by qup »

JohnFen wrote: post #7

About 1/3 of the applications I use regularly are ones I've written myself, from the trivial to one that are very large and complex. My favorite one, though, was a simple alarm clock app I wrote (back when I used alarm clocks). It had the one thing I wanted from alarm clocks that nobody provided: every time you hit the snooze button, it snoozes for half the time you got the last time you hit the snooze. When the snoo…

What does it do when it quits working?

Some snoozers I know would just consider that a victory and get back to sleep

Re: Ask HN: What's the stack for your "home-cooked meal" apps?

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Post by karmakaze »

I've settled on much the same as you, Flutter/Dart and Vultr. Haven't needed much in the way of cloud storage so just use the filesystem and MySQL. For anything webby, Vue/TypeScript on Netlify + CloudFlare. The backend language/framework can vary if I'm interested in something at the time (e.g. F#/Giraffe).

Re: Ask HN: What's the stack for your "home-cooked meal" apps?

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Post by BlackjackCF »

paeselhz wrote: post #4

Recently I've felt overwhelmed by the amount of ads in a simple solitaire game (from many distributors). So I've spent some time learning Unity and built my own Solitaire Game to play during my commute, with no required internet connection, and no loading screen, just like the old days of Solitaire in Windows 98. I'm still pending on adding some features to make the game more complete, but it has been a joyride to le…

It’s really cool that you’re doing this for yourself… but reading this also makes me kinda sad that solitaire gets flooded with ads.

Re: Ask HN: What's the stack for your "home-cooked meal" apps?

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Post by talldatethrow »

qup wrote: post #13
JohnFen wrote: post #7

About 1/3 of the applications I use regularly are ones I've written myself, from the trivial to one that are very large and complex. My favorite one, though, was a simple alarm clock app I wrote (back when I used alarm clocks). It had the one thing I wanted from alarm clocks that nobody provided: every time you hit the snooze button, it snoozes for half the time you got the last time you hit the snooze. When the snoo…

What does it do when it quits working? Some snoozers I know would just consider that a victory and get back to sleep

The snooze key/process quits working, and it just keeps beeping until you complete the turning the app off process.. probably. (Not OP)

Re: Ask HN: What's the stack for your "home-cooked meal" apps?

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Post by paeselhz »

BlackjackCF wrote: post #15
paeselhz wrote: post #4

Recently I've felt overwhelmed by the amount of ads in a simple solitaire game (from many distributors). So I've spent some time learning Unity and built my own Solitaire Game to play during my commute, with no required internet connection, and no loading screen, just like the old days of Solitaire in Windows 98. I'm still pending on adding some features to make the game more complete, but it has been a joyride to le…

It’s really cool that you’re doing this for yourself… but reading this also makes me kinda sad that solitaire gets flooded with ads.

Hahaha, exactly! A simple game that has been around for centuries, and now even Microsoft riddled it with ads and (no idea how or why) paid features. Looks like they took a page from EAs book...

Re: Ask HN: What's the stack for your "home-cooked meal" apps?

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Post by [deleted] »

qup wrote: post #13
JohnFen wrote: post #7

About 1/3 of the applications I use regularly are ones I've written myself, from the trivial to one that are very large and complex. My favorite one, though, was a simple alarm clock app I wrote (back when I used alarm clocks). It had the one thing I wanted from alarm clocks that nobody provided: every time you hit the snooze button, it snoozes for half the time you got the last time you hit the snooze. When the snoo…

What does it do when it quits working? Some snoozers I know would just consider that a victory and get back to sleep

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Re: Ask HN: What's the stack for your "home-cooked meal" apps?

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Post by JohnFen »

talldatethrow wrote: post #16
qup wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What does it do when it quits working? Some snoozers I know would just consider that a victory and get back to sleep

The snooze key/process quits working, and it just keeps beeping until you complete the turning the app off process.. probably. (Not OP)

Yes, that's right. And you had to enter a code to turn the alarm off. You couldn't just close the app or hit a button.

Re: Ask HN: What's the stack for your "home-cooked meal" apps?

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Post by dfinninger »

Django+Postgres.

So far I haven’t needed anything fancy like Htmx, but interested in looking into it in the future.

I’ve tried playing with things like Elixir or Go, but I know Python and am instantly productive in it. If I want to do something to play with a new stack, I will. But I want something done, then Python is the fastest way for me to get something useable.

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