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Jakub Juszczak
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It depends on what you want.
I was working a lot with bootstrap a few years back. However ended up, throwing everything out, except the grid system. Because it was too much work to customize it the way I wanted or needed it to look like.
I would say if you're building a website you don't really need bootstrap. You could go with something other like tailwind / tachyons or just a grid system.
IMO where boostrap really shines is rapid UI develoment. If you are building a backend for something and need a lot of various UI elements, it is really nice. You can build a complete functional and okay looking backend in a few hours.
However even there... there are better alternatives, which look more modern, like semantic ui, bulma and others.
Mailtrain is quite nice if you looking for a self-hosted solution:
github.com/Mailtrain-org/mail…
I am also maintaining a docker image of it:
github.com/nextindex/docker-a…
Oh I guess you mixed up something. I think @chmielwork did the design of screenhunt :D
Yeah true, the free tier exposes the sources. I guess up + aws would be a better fit then.
Oops sorry I mixed both your profile pics, my bad 😂
So you are writing your own graphql server?
There are plenty of options.
You could also use for example the free tier of zeit.now (zeit.co/now) to host your node.js stuff.
And netlify for your react frontend.
Or use apex.up (github.com/apex/up) to deploy your nodejs server to aws lambda which would be also free for the first 1 mio requests I think.
Lamdba and API Gateway are pretty cheap tho. However never use the EC instances. They are super expensive if you compare them to other cloud providers.
ScreenHunt is btw @pugson project. Not mine :D
I'll be using Express GraphQL I guess.
Idk what changed into GraphQL server side but the whole Apollo Prisma thingy is confusing nowadays.
Zeit's Now shows all the code if its free under _public or something I don't remember
Yes TJ's Up I'll give it a shot or use GraphCool if it suffices my needs
But you did help with it, right? Designer I guess. If you're not then I must've mistaken someone else 😂
Oh I guess you mixed up something. I think @chmielwork did the design of screenhunt :D
Yeah true, the free tier exposes the sources. I guess up + aws would be a better fit then.
Oops sorry I mixed both your profile pics, my bad 😂
Depends on the project.
I really like graph.cool as a backend. And host my frontend on netlify.
Other then that I use AWS for some stuff.
And if I need a small server I generally use Hetzner.Cloud (hetzner.cloud/)
Which is similar to DigitalOcean, just way cheaper.
Well, I'm building in React with Node JS & I think I'll be using Apollo with GraphQL. So what do you think I should use which is cheaper but efficient?
Also, where is ScreenHunt (bdw awesome product) hosted on?
So you are writing your own graphql server?
There are plenty of options.
You could also use for example the free tier of zeit.now (zeit.co/now) to host your node.js stuff.
And netlify for your react frontend.
Or use apex.up (github.com/apex/up) to deploy your nodejs server to aws lambda which would be also free for the first 1 mio requests I think.
Lamdba and API Gateway are pretty cheap tho. However never use the EC instances. They are super expensive if you compare them to other cloud providers.
ScreenHunt is btw @pugson project. Not mine :D
I'll be using Express GraphQL I guess.
Idk what changed into GraphQL server side but the whole Apollo Prisma thingy is confusing nowadays.
Zeit's Now shows all the code if its free under _public or something I don't remember
Yes TJ's Up I'll give it a shot or use GraphCool if it suffices my needs
But you did help with it, right? Designer I guess. If you're not then I must've mistaken someone else 😂
Oh I guess you mixed up something. I think @chmielwork did the design of screenhunt :D
Yeah true, the free tier exposes the sources. I guess up + aws would be a better fit then.
Oops sorry I mixed both your profile pics, my bad 😂
#screenhunt is using graph.cool for the backend + React front-end on Netlify.
Is the free plan sufficient for Screenhunt?
Well, live messaging is a way better experience for the user.
So you should go with it.
There are a ton of tutorials and repos about socket.io and chat. For example: github.com/OmarElGabry/chat.io
Socket.io isn that hard if you get the concept of websockets. Should not take long to implement it.
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It's more a general question. How people validate their Ideas / MVPs and when they move on to new ones.
For me personally it varies and is based on the specific type of an idea.
Sometimes I just hack up a teaser/landing page outlining the main concepts and start to collect emails and/or Facebook Page/Instagram follows. The rate of signups allows me to decide if I should abandon it altogether, introduce changes to my initial idea & teaser site or forget about the outside world and start to code. For the main part I like to give myself around 2-4 weeks for a soft research (core concept, competition, monetisation) and gathering results before jumping straight to coding.