Welcome to the club! 🥳

Glad it is happening, IMO the platform is really low value for end users in 2024, and just something that marketing teams feel like they have to do.

The only reason to use Heroku in 2024 is because you're a big org with a legacy system deployed to it, which would cost a tonne to migrate.

I run everything on railway.app, their platform and the team are great.

fly.io is also a good modern alternative.

I consistently fail to follow this advice myself, but in a perfect world I'd like to work as follows:

• Start indiedev journey
• Fail rapidly on 20+ ideas until one hits the mark
• Do not get attached to any idea during this period
• Work on one idea at a time
• Grow idea that works until decent income
• Then start exploring ideas that you like, rather than those that will generate revenue

• Magic link for wait lists
• Email and passwords once I know the app is worth building
• SAML if users request for it

The stack I've used before:

• visgl.github.io/react-map-gl
• docs.protomaps.com

React app using react-map-gl, set up to use maplibre. Then use the protomaps assets so you don't need to use a paid service, e.g. Mapbox.

@levelsio has some decent tweets on self-hosting something similar to this.

I've used github.com/ohmyform/ohmyform in the past, but they now point to using formbricks.com.

Welcome to WIP Charles! 🥳

Thanks!

Welcome to the club! 🥳