Ask HN: What’s your preferred stack for early stage startups?

Re:Ask HN: What’s your preferred stack for early stage start... by riwasabi on Friday February 21, 2020 @06:34PM (#22388116)

Thanks for your reply. Please, can you further explain why you wouldn't use Next.js or Firebase for building a product as a solopreneur? Maybe because I don't have much experience with Rails but I'm still failing to understand how it's much better in your opinion.

Also, I think Digital Ocean doesn't have a free tier. That's my other point: I can't find a reliable, fast way to try out new ideas spending literally $0 using something like Rails. That's pretty easy to do using JAMStack, though.

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Re:Ask HN: What’s your preferred stack for early stage start... by jaredcwhite on Saturday February 22, 2020 @12:23PM (#22392121)

These days, Rails 6 and various related gems is like a superpower…providing so much standard web app functionality out of the box that I can simply focus on what makes my product unique. The amount of "yak shaving" (aka futzing with the tech stack itself) is cut to bare minimum.

DigitalOcean starts at $5/month. Not much more than $0. :)

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Re:Ask HN: What’s your preferred stack for early stage start... by jaredcwhite on Saturday February 22, 2020 @12:26PM (#22392134)

Not to mention the joys of programming in Ruby much of the time…an extra benefit!

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