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

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Post by tonyjstark »

Decision Log SaaS with Slack Integration:

* PHP with Laravel + Postgres on the back

* Blade + Livewire on the front

* hosted on Clever Cloud

I chose it, because it's a stack where almost all problems have already a solution because others had it before. Also, and this was really important at the time: There is just so much built in, PHP+Laravel is a powerhouse for rapidly developing MVPs.

I'm still pretty happy with it. It can take you pretty far if you keep your code base clean, use all the existing tooling like static analyzers, code formatter, and write tests. While success is still moderate, I don't think I could have done it with a different Tech Stack, at least not in the same time-frame and with the same confidence.

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

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Post by f6v »

kubami wrote: post #10

I make a lot of prototypes along with maintaining production systems. A lot of the projects have to do with ML/NLP, which basically means I have to chose python as a core backend language. Which is great, I love python. My core production system and every new prototype is: - Django + PostgreSQL - Celery + redis - for long-running tasks - React - GraphQL - Terraform + Cloud-init to provision the infrastructure All qui…

How time flies... React, GraphQL and Terraform are considered boring and stable.

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

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Post by nudgeee »

For my side company I design and build audio electronics for DJs.

https://cardinia.net/

Here is my tools & workflow:

https://nudge.id.au/v5/img/Cardinia-Electronics-Workflow-202...

Professional CAD tools are not cheap, so I'm basically breaking even. I'm mainly doing it for the love it -- I love to create things to inspire others to also create.

Luckily I have a full time job to keep me going :)

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

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Post by Dockson »

marshallbananas wrote: post #8

I'm a fullstack JavaScript dev. I used to write everything in pure React and serve it with Express on Node but two years ago I started experimenting with all the fancy new frameworks and now my every project is: - Gatsby or Next depending on how dynamic the content is - Firebase for db, auth, and bucket storage, and sometimes hosting - Vercel for NextJS hosting - Recoil for state management; after years of using Redu…

Have you tried sanity.io (a headless CMS)? I used it in conjunction with Gatsby and have had a great experience overall.

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

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Post by f6v »

TekMol wrote: post #13

Great thread! I have a question for everybody who uses Laravel or Symfony: Did you compare it to the other one before you made a decision? What made you decide on the one you are using now? I also would be interested in the same question regarding Django and Flask!

Does it even make sense to "compare frameworks"? I've got an impression they all do more or less the same and it's a matter of preference really.

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

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Post by louissm_it »

Ruby on Rails, with a couple React bits in there for “islands of interactivity”. Coupled with old-skool Heroku it lets me punch above my weight class, iterate like you would not believe, and focus on the business.

I only recently moved to Rails though. Before that I was full stack TypeScript, which was cool and I still miss the static types, but it’s worth going without them.

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