Ask HN: Companies of one, what is your tech stack (2021)?

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Apple Silicon Games

#Mac #Productivity #Hardware 62 social mentions

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webtoapp.design

I turn existing websites into apps at https://webtoapp.design I went with Flask (python) + Bootstrap for my website. The apps are created in Flutter, which was a great choice looking back on it. This allows me to have 1 codebase for both Android & iOS apps (most customers want both).

#Web App #Mobile Apps #Mac 16 social mentions

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SurplusCI

Single person company with a few products out now: https://surplusci.com - Rentable dedicated CPU runners for GitHub Actions/GitLab CI.

#Productivity #Developer Tools #Side Projects 10 social mentions

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Profilehunt

Profilehunt( https://profilehunt.net ) is a Kanban board built for organizing your job search. It comes with a browser extension so you can add jobs from any website to your board. Profilehunt sends weekly reminders and updates on applications. It has been built using following technologies:.

#Chrome Extensions #Hiring And Recruitment #Tech 1 social mentions

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CompareDial

I taught myself to program to build https://comparedial.com/, a comparison website for phone contracts in the UK. > What is your tech stack? Front end: plain JavaScript.

#Online Shopping #Technology #Product Comparisons 1 social mentions

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flat.social

Https://flat.social - a webapp for building playful virtual spaces for meetings on socials. Front-end: Typescript, Next.js, Styled Components.

#Online Meetings #Video Chat #Virtual Events 39 social mentions

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D3.js

I run Plotapi (or PlotAPI) https://plotapi.com - the value is in creating engaging and beautiful interactive visualisations with, in most cases, a single line of code. Stack: - FastAPI for the service-side - Wordpress for payments - Redis - Puppeteer for server-side rendering - HTML/CSS/JavaScript, Regl(http://regl.party), D3.js(http://d3js.org) for visualisations - Nikola for gallery of examples I chose FastAPI because Python was low friction for getting started, and I wanted something that didn't enforce a methodology and would stay out my way! Perhaps the most controversial is my use of Wordpress... I use it because I know it works, and it isn't a gamble to assume it will be around and maintained in years to come. As I'm one person, I get to focus more on where Plotapi adds value! I think my choices have an impact on success because they allow me to work quickly... From the user's point of view, I'm sure they wouldn't care about any of the tech apart from what's in the generated visualisation!

#Javascript UI Libraries #Charting Libraries #Data Visualization 160 social mentions

Fintech data platform - sync your bank accounts to Airtable. https://fintable.io Spending the minimum number of brain cycles on the tech stack and minimizing abstractions is one of my main design goals, hence I always go as no-frills as possible. No, I don't need Docker/k8s/React, and I believe I can scale to a 100k customers without breaking a sweat. Laravel (Postgres) + jQuery hosted on IBM Cloud (because of the free startup credits), deployed with Laravel Forge. Jekyll static blog for the marketing site.

#Fintech #Spreadsheets #Money 4 social mentions

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Simple Scraper

I'm building https://simplescraper.io - data extraction in the spirit of the late KimonoLabs. Front: Vue.js, Tailwind Back: Node.js, Firebase (Firestore database, Hosting) Management: Airtable, Github, a 30,000 word README file.

#Web Scraping #API Tools #Scraper 18 social mentions

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Everlint

Never forget an autorenewing subscription again: https://everlint.com Hosted on a simple Debian Linux VPS with https://tilaa.com. Running nginx with Let's Encrypt certs. Built in Ruby on Rails with PostgreSQL for the database and Stimulus as JavaScript framework. Charts are generated with ChartJS and CSS is using Bulma framework.

#Contract Management #Contract Lifecycle Management #Subscription Management 3 social mentions

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Boxy SVG

Https://boxy-svg.com - vector graphics editor similar to Inkscape and Adobe Illustrator. Both client- and server-side code is written with vanilla JavaScript. Since I'm targeting only Electron and modern Chromium-based browsers I can use latest web technologies without any transpilers or preprocessors. Third-party services: - Firebase (database, storage, hosting, cloud functions) - Paddle (payments, taxes) - Algolia (instant search) - ProtonMail (regular emails) - SendGrid (transactional emails).

#Graphic Design Software #Vector Graphic Editor #Digital Drawing And Painting 16 social mentions

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Pixeldrain

I run a file sharing / content delivery platform called pixeldrain: https://pixeldrain.com The system serves 4 PB of data to 60 million visitors per month. I have served 30 PB and 700 million file views since I started tracking usage somewhere in 2018. I'll go from front to back: - Most of the frontend is plain HTML, CSS and JS. I have started transitioning some pages to Svelte. I like this framework for its speed and simplicity - Cloudflare Analytics to get basic info like which pages are popular and where my users are from - The structure of the website (page wrap, menu, footer, etc) is managed with Go's template system - The user-facing servers are dedicated 10 Gbps Leaseweb servers, stuffed to the brim with SSDs in RAID6 for caching. Each of these servers cost €1200 per month. The storage servers are from Hetzner's SX line. - The OS is Ubuntu 20.04 server edition. I use Ubuntu over Debian because it ships with TCP BBR - The API is written in plain Go. The only HTTP libraries I use are httprouter for routing and Gorilla Websockets - The storage system is custom built to spread files over multiple servers. I call it pixelstore, it's not open source (yet) - The database is ScyllaDB. I landed on this one after going through multiple other systems with severe bottlenecks. I started with MySQL which was limited to a single location, so other locations had high latency. Then I tried CockroachDB, but it kept hanging under the load no matter how much hardware I threw at it. ScyllaDB is very fast and relatively reliable. - UptimeRobot for monitoring - Mailgun for account e-mail verifications Feel free to ask me more questions :-).

#Cloud Storage #File Sharing #Office Suites 61 social mentions

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Zlipa

#Domain Names #Domain Marketplace #Branding 2 social mentions

I run https://takehome.io and https://clubman.app on the same stack. Backend in Go with a simple MVC pattern, no framework. All data in Postgres. Front end is server rendered HTML using MaterializeCSS for components, migrating to TailwindUI. Hosted on GCP using Cloud Run, deployed using the gcloud cli orchestrated in a makefile. Database is a Cloud SQL instance. Google Cloud Tasks for the message queue. Amazon SES for transactional emails and S3 for blob storage. I have written a LOT of single page front ends over the years. I think the decision to go back to plain HTML templating has made it dramatically faster to add features. Same for the switch from microservices back to a well constructed monolith. I can just get right down to the feature I want to build or the bug I need to fix without wrestling the plumbing. Go has also been wonderful for keeping things simple. I was always tempted to make things “clever” in nodejs.

#Developer Tools #Online Learning #Tech 2 social mentions

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DataTables

- DataTables (https://datatables.net/) I use these "boring" things because I'm familiar with them from contract programming work for companies where Microsoft stuff is commmon.

#Development Tools #Javascript UI Libraries #JavaScript Framework 69 social mentions

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UseGravity.App

I built a SaaS starter kit (https://usegravity.app) and use the same kit in a few SaaS products. I'm obviously biased, but I would never start a new project from scratch for several reasons: 1. Building boilerplate code takes a long time to do things properly and is often never as simple as we may anticipate. 2. The time is better spent on building features for customers. 3. As you mentioned, it's painful to build this stuff.

#Developer Tools #Application Builder #Node.js Framework 28 social mentions

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Shotcut

#Video #Video Editors #Video Editor 115 social mentions

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Sass

#Developer Tools #Design Tools #Web Frameworks 133 social mentions

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OBS Studio

#Video Recording #Screen Recording #Live Streaming 1062 social mentions

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Auth0

#Identity And Access Management #Identity Provider #SSO 179 social mentions

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Seaweed FS

> That would make it impossible to link directly to a single storage server as a single file would also be distributed. Check out https://github.com/chrislusf/seaweedfs/ implementation of reed solomon. Small files can still be served from 1 server. It's also efficient for small files, which a image store requires.

#Cloud Storage #File Sharing #Cloud Computing 37 social mentions