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by amzans 6y ago
Hey thanks for the nice comment :) About your questions: 1) Fathom, Simple Analytics, and Plausible are great. They have done an incredible work too. Panelbear has already most (if not all) of the features you might find in their offerings.
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by amzans 6y ago
They have been very supportive, and signed legally binding documents to allow me to work on this. We're also hiring :)
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by amzans 6y ago
Yes, this is what I would also recommend. You can get really far with the managed services from your cloud provider. If you're already familiar with Docker containers, just that already gives you plenty of options. I think every platfo
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by amzans 6y ago
I guess he means the Kubernetes API which is what most of the controllers, and other components talk to. That was my case too. It was mostly when I installed the prometheus-operator that things would go south, even if the nodes themselves w
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by amzans 6y ago
Going from 0 paying customers to 1 is really difficult. Specially if you're asking for a recurring subscription. Getting noticed is one of the hardest parts. Just having a great product is no longer enough. For every Basecamp, there ar
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by amzans 6y ago
Thanks for the response! To clarify, I still a happy customer of DO, and would still use it for some other projects. I have also had a fair share of issues with AWS services in the past (Athena, they took care of it a few months later), and
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by amzans 6y ago
First of all, thank you all! Just the discussion on this post alone, is a goldmine for anyone trying to figure out what worked, and what not for others. This is why I love HN. To clarify a point about my article, I think everyone should do
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by amzans 6y ago
Hey that's great! I think everyone should do what works for them. Using a tool "just because" it worked for others, seems to be what often drives many decisions in this industry. For example, would you go for the 2,200+ micro
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by amzans 6y ago
My team migrated a service handling >1.6k req/s at peak time, from Scala (Finatra), to Python (Django). Same number of servers (3x c5.large), just higher CPU utilization (from ~15% to 70%). Scala was great, but unfortunately it made
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by amzans 6y ago
I have used https://calculator.aws/ in the past, but to be honest it's difficult to account for the egress costs/networking fees using their calculator. Simple things like networking between Availability Zones&#x2
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by amzans 6y ago
> used what he knew best, he was able to focus on getting customers That's what I was going for :) Now I realize that I should have highlighted that part more on the blog post.
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by amzans 6y ago
Thanks for sharing your thoughts! To clarify, this has already helped me to ship features to my customers quickly. I actually spend little time working on the stack. Last time I touched the infrastructure components was probably a few weeks
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by amzans 6y ago
Thanks for the feedback. Yes, I understand I'm entering a crowded market, but Panelbear is still in the early stages, and I'm trying to understand what problems my customers have that I could solve / how much value can I brin
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by amzans 6y ago
Heroku is a great product if you want development speed right from the start. I have used them in the past, and it was a very nice experience overall. For many projects this is more than enough. However, in my case I would be paying 2-3x mo
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by amzans 6y ago
I agree with you. I wouldn't blindly recommend my stack to everyone, one could argue it's probably even overkill for my SaaS project right now. At this scale I could get away with a couple of $20/mo instances, and call it a d
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by amzans 6y ago
Most of my learning was on the job, and in building some open-source projects that I have released over the years, for example: - https://github.com/anthonynsimon/bild - https://github.com/traduora&#x2F
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by amzans 6y ago
Glad you found it useful! Since I have a full-time job too, my time on this project is pretty limited, usually no more than 2 hours per day. That's why I tried to automate and save time as much as I could using Kubernetes operators, we
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by amzans 6y ago
Right now the operational effort is pretty minimal to be honest. I spend most of my time developing new features and talking my customers. I know it seems like a lot of tools, but most of them are set up once and forget. Except for the occa
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by amzans 6y ago
It sounds like you're looking for Stripe Checkout ( https://stripe.com/en-de/payments/checkout ). They handle all the billing portal pages, invoicing, subscription changes and cancellation, etc... I am not affi
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The Tech Stack of a One-Man SaaS(panelbear.com)
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Jason Fried: The Truth About Real Estate (2010)(inc.com)
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On Choosing Boring Technology(panelbear.com)
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by amzans 6y ago
Hey thanks for the input. I haven't tried that approach yet, but I'll consider it for future endeavours. So far I'm quite happy with the SaaS approach as I'm able to prioritize my effort on improving the product for cust
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by amzans 6y ago
I agree with you. As the author of a few popular open source projects [1] [2], it has been a fun ride, and I have learned a lot. However, the honeymoon period is over for me. The vast majority of the time it’s a lonely, thankless effort. Th
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by amzans 6y ago
Interesting. For comparison, I have exactly the same MBP mid 2014 15" with 16GB. As I type I have Slack, IntelliJ (with large Scala project), VSCode, Spotify and Chrome with plenty tabs open, and sitting comfortably at ~7 GB.
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On Choosing Boring Tech(panelbear.com)
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Trunk Based Development: Monorepos(trunkbaseddevelopment.com)
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Show HN: Panelbear – fast and private Google Analytics alternative(panelbear.com)
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