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If anyone wants more of a deep dive on solo developer tech stacks, I have a podcast at https://runninginproduction.com/podcast/ https://runninginproduction.com/

by nickjj 5y ago

If anyone wants more of a deep dive on solo developer tech stacks, I have a podcast at https://runninginproduction.com/podcast/ https://runninginproduction.com/podcast/ with almost 100 episodes and 100 different guests. Every episode is a 60-90 minute unscripted podcast where we talk about how they built and deployed their app, what libraries they used, tech stack, lessons learned, etc.. There's also a skimmable list of tech stack tags, reference links and show notes. Episodes are a mix of solo developers and organizations but based on having personally recorded and edited every episode my gut says about 30% of the episodes are solo devs and it's usually pointed out in the first few minutes of the show. With that said, if you want to be on the show to chat about your tech stack let me know. There's a "become a guest" button in the nav bar to get the ball rolling.

call-me-al 5y ago
came here to suggest this. Great podcast!
- excitednumber 5y ago
  Any recs?
  - call-me-al 5y ago
    I would say to start with the tech you are interested in. On the website you can select episodes based on tech (e.g. Laravel, Django, Elixir, etc.). Hope this helps!
- nickjj 5y ago
  Thanks a lot for listening.
excitednumber 5y ago
Any episodes you may point out? Specifically tech on SaaS and the learning of how to build to scale. Or just general episodes you personally found fascinating
- nickjj 5y ago
  Hmm there's a lot of them. Most of the episodes are SAAS apps but I remember Dan from Real Python[0] in an earlier episode having a pretty rigorous set up for solo developing his platform. It gets a few million monthly page views. He happens to use Heroku tho, so that episode is pretty dev heavy vs ops. The GoRails[1] episode is a good example of keeping it simple but killing it. It's just one dude who built a million dollar business hosting everything on a $20 a month DigitalOcean server, and the server itself hums along at a few percent load while having tens of thousands of members. Jake from SongRender[2] is a solo SAAS app project for building audio visualizer videos with Node, it's not running at massive scale but he did everything himself -- including setting up blue / green deploys with Terraform. Cory built a service to create and design placecards[3]. I remember this one focusing on keeping it simple while still being able to run a profitable SAAS app. If you're looking for intergalactic crazy scale, an engineer from Dropbox[4] was on a few months ago but that's not a solo dev platform. Another SAAS app and large scale deployment was Mux[5]. They handle billions of video API requests a month with a pretty small team. It's hard to only recommend a few because often times you can get at least 1 nugget of information out of each episode and apply it back to your set up. One takeaway from a lot of solo dev projects is they just ship something and keep it simple until that stops working. You'd be surprised at how far you can go with 1 server, handling tens or hundreds of thousands of monthly visitors but still generate enough profit from your project to make it a full time income or at least be a nice chunk of side income. [0]: https://runninginproduction.com/podcast/4-real-python-is-one-of-the-largest-python-learning-platforms-around https://runninginproduction.com/podcast/4-real-python-is-one... [1]: https://runninginproduction.com/podcast/12-learn-ruby-on-rails-through-screencast-tutorials-on-gorails https://runninginproduction.com/podcast/12-learn-ruby-on-rai... [2]: https://runninginproduction.com/podcast/83-songrender-lets-you-create-audio-visualizer-videos-from-audio-clips https://runninginproduction.com/podcast/83-songrender-lets-y... [3]: https://runninginproduction.com/podcast/39-place-card-me-lets-you-create-printable-place-cards-online https://runninginproduction.com/podcast/39-place-card-me-let... [4]: https://runninginproduction.com/podcast/82-dropbox-gives-you-secure-access-to-all-of-your-files https://runninginproduction.com/podcast/82-dropbox-gives-you... [5]: https://runninginproduction.com/podcast/31-mux-is-an-api-based-platform-that-lets-you-process-and-stream-videos https://runninginproduction.com/podcast/31-mux-is-an-api-bas...

by nickjj 5y ago

call-me-al 5y ago

came here to suggest this. Great podcast!

excitednumber 5y ago
Any recs?
- call-me-al 5y ago
  I would say to start with the tech you are interested in. On the website you can select episodes based on tech (e.g. Laravel, Django, Elixir, etc.). Hope this helps!
nickjj 5y ago
Thanks a lot for listening.

excitednumber 5y ago

Any episodes you may point out? Specifically tech on SaaS and the learning of how to build to scale. Or just general episodes you personally found fascinating

nickjj 5y ago
Hmm there's a lot of them. Most of the episodes are SAAS apps but I remember Dan from Real Python[0] in an earlier episode having a pretty rigorous set up for solo developing his platform. It gets a few million monthly page views. He happens to use Heroku tho, so that episode is pretty dev heavy vs ops. The GoRails[1] episode is a good example of keeping it simple but killing it. It's just one dude who built a million dollar business hosting everything on a $20 a month DigitalOcean server, and the server itself hums along at a few percent load while having tens of thousands of members. Jake from SongRender[2] is a solo SAAS app project for building audio visualizer videos with Node, it's not running at massive scale but he did everything himself -- including setting up blue / green deploys with Terraform. Cory built a service to create and design placecards[3]. I remember this one focusing on keeping it simple while still being able to run a profitable SAAS app. If you're looking for intergalactic crazy scale, an engineer from Dropbox[4] was on a few months ago but that's not a solo dev platform. Another SAAS app and large scale deployment was Mux[5]. They handle billions of video API requests a month with a pretty small team. It's hard to only recommend a few because often times you can get at least 1 nugget of information out of each episode and apply it back to your set up. One takeaway from a lot of solo dev projects is they just ship something and keep it simple until that stops working. You'd be surprised at how far you can go with 1 server, handling tens or hundreds of thousands of monthly visitors but still generate enough profit from your project to make it a full time income or at least be a nice chunk of side income. [0]: https://runninginproduction.com/podcast/4-real-python-is-one-of-the-largest-python-learning-platforms-around https://runninginproduction.com/podcast/4-real-python-is-one... [1]: https://runninginproduction.com/podcast/12-learn-ruby-on-rails-through-screencast-tutorials-on-gorails https://runninginproduction.com/podcast/12-learn-ruby-on-rai... [2]: https://runninginproduction.com/podcast/83-songrender-lets-you-create-audio-visualizer-videos-from-audio-clips https://runninginproduction.com/podcast/83-songrender-lets-y... [3]: https://runninginproduction.com/podcast/39-place-card-me-lets-you-create-printable-place-cards-online https://runninginproduction.com/podcast/39-place-card-me-let... [4]: https://runninginproduction.com/podcast/82-dropbox-gives-you-secure-access-to-all-of-your-files https://runninginproduction.com/podcast/82-dropbox-gives-you... [5]: https://runninginproduction.com/podcast/31-mux-is-an-api-based-platform-that-lets-you-process-and-stream-videos https://runninginproduction.com/podcast/31-mux-is-an-api-bas...