[HN Gopher] Ask HN: What's the best tech stack for indie hacking?
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       Ask HN: What's the best tech stack for indie hacking?
        
       I've built full-stack applications using django and
       vanillajs/html/css ever since grad and hosted on DO  Never really
       bothered to change stacks, but I'd want to know what's something
       that's faster/cheaper/more scalable/modern  What's your guys' go-to
       stack?
        
       Author : forte124
       Score  : 7 points
       Date   : 2023-01-27 20:58 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
       | muunbo wrote:
       | Your stack sounds perfectly fast and cheap and scalable and
       | modern. Stick with it. If you want to run multiple apps in one DO
       | droplet to save money, use dokku
        
       | johnstorey wrote:
       | Related thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34530052
       | 
       | Recently went through this discussion with two friends. For now
       | we are doing PocketBase for a simple, extendable BaaS, Flutter
       | for front-ends.
       | 
       | We are starting to drool looking at Elixir, Phoenix, and LiveView
       | from afar. But the learning curve would slow us down for the next
       | MVP that we need to put out on a schedule.
        
       | rozenmd wrote:
       | Build with what you know, that way you'll be focusing on just
       | building what your customers are asking for, and not also having
       | to learn the technology as you build.
        
       | obpe wrote:
       | My go-to stack is Node and React.
       | 
       | The fastest is the one you already know. The cheapest is the one
       | you don't use. More scalable requires more complexity. More
       | modern is probably completely useless until it's not modern
       | anymore.
       | 
       | This reminds me of a technical discussion I was involved with
       | regarding picking a language to develop a microservice. We chose
       | Java because the vendor recommended it for easier integration
       | with their service. It turned out they didn't have a Java
       | library, it was just an HTTP API and nothing about the
       | integration was made easier by using Java. The vendor just only
       | worked with Java so that's what they recommend. I was an advocate
       | of C# primarily because that's what we use in our other services.
       | 
       | Anyway, my point is "faster/cheaper/scalable/modern" are
       | marketing terms and you should be wary of anyone selling you a
       | solution based on these.
        
       | TigerTeamX wrote:
       | The one that get's you there fastest. If you hack on something
       | and you need to finish it, then probably a lot better just to use
       | what you are using.
       | 
       | Personally, my stack is Bottlepy (Python) and VueJs for frontend.
       | Bottlepy is so simple and never changes, you just learn it once
       | (and in a day) and you get stuff done. VueJS is a lot easier to
       | learn than react and it just gets stuff done. React have other
       | advantages such as bigger community, more tools, a bit more
       | structure - but if you're small team I think VueJS shines more.
       | 
       | I used to use Django/Vanilla JS like you by the way :)
        
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