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My frugal indie dev startup stack (2022)

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Re: My frugal indie dev startup stack (2022)

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Post by hardwaresofton »

nextaccountic wrote: post #210
hardwaresofton wrote: post #91

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I'm working on a middle-tier solution for this gap -- I call it Nimbus, but basically the idea is to provide managed services at low cost cloud prices . There's no reason someone should have to run a service like Chatwoot themselves, the software is so good that it's mostly set & forget for most small use cases. That's where I come in. Unfortunately I don't have ChatWoot yet, but I have (and use) Umami for page view…

do you anticipate that hosted umami will have features unavailable in the open source version?

Yeah, but all improvements will likely be upstreamed/made open source (their license isn't AGPL or anything but just makes sense to me since it's MIT).

The first thing I want to do is add a backup mechanism that isn't just take a snapshot -- There are a bunch of similar tools to Umami and I don't think that any of them have a really good cross-project way of taking backups.

Feels like there should be a page view/analytics backup standard, so you can easy move from a tool like Plausible or Umami and try out a new one, like Fugu.

But outside of advanced functionality I think my platform is just a lot closer on cost. The instance costs don't go up per traffic served (especially since 99% of people won't need that) -- it's more like parts + maintenance (and since Umami is good software it doesn't need a TON of maintenance either, just regular patches and some monitoring/extremely light resilience engineering).

Re: My frugal indie dev startup stack (2022)

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Post by figassis »

pembrook wrote: post #155
TheCapeGreek wrote: post #17

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I agree. Use one of the OSS password managers to save on 1P. If you have a cloud sync service you already use, KeePassXC + cloud sync will solve having the passwords available everywhere you are. You can even use Syncthing for free (though I'd at least donate once off) since you can use it peer-to-peer between your devices. SEO really needs disruption here on price. Ubersuggest seems decent. On Intercom: OP can proba…

Does nobody here see the irony in bending over backwards to avoid spending money on software products when the entire purpose of your business is to sell a software product? I could see if we were talking about a side project with no commercial intent. But this post is about an indie Saas founder...if a few hundred dollars a month is a barrier to success, then that's a pretty good sign your indie startup isn't starti…

Pay more, no matter how unreasonable it is because you can afford it. You’re living in the US bubble, where VC funded startups feed each other in often unsustainable ways. People were taught this argument to keep the wheel spinning.

The right way to build a startup is: offload your infra, self host everything you can while balancing the maintenance effort/cost.

Re: My frugal indie dev startup stack (2022)

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Post by DeathArrow »

devoutsalsa wrote: post #60
cowsandmilk wrote: post #56

May be a weirder question to ask, but curious about the Delaware LLC decision. If I was creating a C-corp, Delaware makes sense, but for an LLC it feels weird unless the author is in Delaware. I also don’t see any cost for registering as a foreign LLC wherever they are located, so maybe they are in Delaware.

Not OP & IANAL… by having the LLC in Delaware, it’s probably nominally easier to convert to a Delaware C corp at the desired time. Or maybe OP lives in Delaware.

Probably OP uses the LLC as an offshore company.

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Post by dangus »

callalex wrote: post #195
Propelloni wrote: post #138

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They do? That's interesting news!

It pays more because the on-call/pager requirements can be absolutely soul-crushing.

If you have a terrible manager, team, and product/platform. The reality is that most outages are caused by 9-5 changes made by humans.

Re: My frugal indie dev startup stack (2022)

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Post by slig »

esafak wrote: post #135
stewartmcgown wrote: post #29

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I used to be CTO of an Uber Eats style service that ran on hosting costs of about £100pm. Thousands of orders every few days, real time driver tracking, self hosted invoice generation, the works. Hetzner servers, Docker Swarm and Cloudflare for the tech.

What's the best way to build and run a containerized PaaS on Hetzner?

CapRover / Dokku.

Re: My frugal indie dev startup stack (2022)

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Post by qingcharles »

wongarsu wrote: post #50
quickthrower2 wrote: post #34

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So… www logs. That weird trick they have been using since 1994 or earlier!

Basically. Except that htaccess logs won't correctly track page visits on your fancy react page, so you still need a bit of JavaScript. And once you have that you can also track visit time a bit better, or track goal conversions like how often people click some specific button. But other than that it's basically a more modern webalizer.

And Plausible won't correctly track visits for users who block their JavaScript :)

Also, last year I found a bug in Plausible's script which silently stops it working on some pages, so your data won't be accurate in those scenarios either.

Re: My frugal indie dev startup stack (2022)

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Post by ljm »

esafak wrote: post #139
ljm wrote: post #122

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Those ARM boxes are incredible for the price, I'm using them to document a hobby K8S cluster because the overall cost is low enough that it won't price a hobbyist out. You get a lot of bang for your buck out of them.

Which k8s are you using and how are you managing it?

k3s, and nothing fancy except using a splash of helm to set some things up. The cluster has an auto-updater for unattended upgrades.
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