These are the things that gave me (a solo developer) a huge speed boost: - Use React with NextJS. Stopping messing with state and routing issues. - Use GraphQ

These are the things that gave me (a solo developer) a huge speed boost: - Use React with NextJS. Stopping messing with state and routing issues. - Use GraphQL instead of REST. Stop spending so much time writing well-structured API endpoints. - Purchase TailwindUI [0]. Stop pretending to be a UI designer and start implementing features. - Put everything in containers and host on Render [1] or Heroku. Stop spending time managing infra before you've found product-market fit. Remove everything that stands between you and solving a business problem. Everything else is completely irrelevant. Do whatever you can to get to market. It makes more business sense to pay $50/mo for Heroku and Auth0 than spending a month building infra and authentication, which you'll probably get wrong anyway. If I were to do this all over again, I'd probably go with PHP+Symfony/Laravel or Ruby on Rails. Something hyper-practical. I thought I'd never say this, but it's true. Development is fast. Recruiting is cheap. There are builtin patterns so it's easy to get help online. That being said, I do love React. [0] https://tailwindui.com/ https://tailwindui.com/ [1] https://render.com/ https://render.com/