Not really a company, just a side project used by me and some friends: Laravel + Unpoly + Tailwind.
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?
#162I run https://text-generator.io competing with OpenAI. I used to use kubernetes on Google cloud, but now run it from my house behind a CloudFlare tunnel believe it or not Using my own GPUs allows me to undercut them with around 10x cheaper pricing. The product is built with some open source and some retrained models, it analyses input links or linked images with tesseract/unified IO / OFA / beautiful soup so it can a…
OT but can these AIs generate text based on existing corpus? eg helpdesk system that suggests responses to (human) agents based on previous (human) questions and replies or a bank of frequent saved snippets/replies. edit: or find previous conversations with high similarity
shameless plug but that's exactly what we're building at Aide (https://aide.app), I would love to chat and see how we can potentially help if this is something you're interesting in learning more about or deploying!
Re: Ask HN: Companies of one, what is your tech stack?
#163I run a data warehouse for sports data, with a web frontend. Lots of integrations with 3rd party APIs to pull in data. Monster server (128GB RAM, 18 core) on Hetzner ($60/mo). CloudFlare to front everything to add a little extra security mostly - I only allow my home IP and CF to connect directly to the app/db/web server. * MySQL, because one key source has a library that ingests easily to MySQL * Postgres for the ma…
How has your experience been with Prefect? I've been looking at it for a few of my own projects, but haven't fully committed to using it yet (Prefect has a lot of features and my projects only require a fraction of them, so I'm opting to use "lighter weight" solutions instead).
It's ok. Minimal overhead - basically just a remote scheduling and job metadata tool. Their v2 upgrade is nice but not quite stable yet. I just wanted something better than a cron job, and heard bad things about running your own Airflow (and Astronomer is too expensive for this project)
Re: Ask HN: Companies of one, what is your tech stack?
#164Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm literally about to do my weekend coding on a WASM UI using sycamore-rs (a rust library), so I would love to find out too lol
See the reply to parent. For a hobby project I think it's an interesting experience to try. Especially if you also intend to write a back-end in Rust. But for production use, and productivity in general, I don't think it's close to ready. I find Rescript to be much more enjoyable for both hobby and production use. If you're looking for a front-end language that is quite similar to Rust, just without the manual memory…
Thank you so very much for sharing your valuable experience!
Re: Ask HN: Companies of one, what is your tech stack?
#165Nice! What kind of sports data? Is it usually enthusiasts who pay for access to this data? How do you charge your customers?
Re: Ask HN: Companies of one, what is your tech stack?
#166I run https://allaboutberlin.com It runs on Craft CMS inside Docker on DigitalOcean. I chose Craft because it lets you create custom post types with custom fields really easily. The matrix fields let you have rich text mixed with other widgets. All of this was a pain in WordPress. On the other hand, using not-WordPress means that you're on your own. You can't hammer a bunch of plugins together and call it a day. The…
If you want to avoid the headache of doing basic things in nginx.
Checkout https://caddyserver.com , auto SSL, fast and simple.
Re: Ask HN: Companies of one, what is your tech stack?
#167Static Hugo site running on Cloudflare Pages: https://clippyfrontend.pages.dev/
The majority of the video processing and indexing work is done offline. I have a CLI tool that creates the data files for Hugo on my local box. Because of this, I don't need a database. I just run the tool, git push, and the data on the site automatically updates. The frontend is vanilla HTML, JS, and CSS.
Re: Ask HN: Companies of one, what is your tech stack?
#168Hosting: Bare metal on Hetzner. Backend: Python / SqlAlchemy DB: Postgres Cache: Redis Frontend: React / Redux / Emotion / Socket.io Reverse Proxy: Traefik Marketing Site: Next.js CDN/File hosting: Cloudflare, R2 Backups: Tarsnap Deployment: Docker / Docker Compose Server configuration: Ansible Mobile: React Native Payments: Stripe Email (Transactional/Marketing): Postmark If I were to start today, I would probably s…
What types of apps do you make for there to be 36 total?
Re: Ask HN: Companies of one, what is your tech stack?
#169I run https://allaboutberlin.com It runs on Craft CMS inside Docker on DigitalOcean. I chose Craft because it lets you create custom post types with custom fields really easily. The matrix fields let you have rich text mixed with other widgets. All of this was a pain in WordPress. On the other hand, using not-WordPress means that you're on your own. You can't hammer a bunch of plugins together and call it a day. The…
If you want to avoid the headache of doing basic things in nginx. Checkout https://caddyserver.com , auto SSL, fast and simple.
At the time it was missing features I needed, but it's no longer the case.
I tried Caddy (on my robot vacuum!) and it was a breath of fresh air.
Re: Ask HN: Companies of one, what is your tech stack?
#170I have the tendency of pick no so-popular options (among the large dev population) but with eye to be as productive and rock-solid for solo dev.
- PostgreSQL + Sqlite (PG is not that uncommon anymore!) as the main stores. I refuse to add anything else as far as I can, ie: Any other NoSQL thing, so I try to go with in-built functionality like FTS, Json, etc. Decent RDBMS usage is super-efficient and scale well for most workloads
- Rust as main lang. Speed is nice, but having a language that reduce bugs and maintenance cost is BIG plus. In the long run, is better ($$$$$) to have a little of "slow development" to offset "so much bug hunting!". Go "fast, break things" is only viable for very rich, very big companies that are after very fast growth. Most of us, take slow and methodical is much better, IMHO.
- htmx + tailwindcss for front-end, hands-on the BEST combo in my +20 years doing web stuff.
- Simple http://vultr.com hosting with cloudflare on front. Thanks to Rust/PG I even have very small ones too.
- nginx + nixos + circleci as the operative backbone. NixOS replace all my custom docker/scripts/ansible-like setup in a single thing.
The only thing I hate to do that have only cause problems, all the time, is Android. I wish I could do only iOS, so much easier and sane for solo dev.