I find that it still feels rather disjointed and "off". Not opposed to it, and actually will probably end up going that route as I'm not sure I have the budget just yet to have someone help, but largely just curious as to how others do it.

Cat! This is super helpful! Thank you for breaking this down.

I might have to book some time with you to help me refine my brand (and offering) better. Hehe.

Thanks. This is helpful, especially your "why"s around certain criteria.

I've been thinking about something similar, though not sure I'm at the "retire from email" phase.

What I've been thinking about is how I can utilize AI to summarize and reduce my time dealing with email. I'm sure gmail and others will get there eventually, but I've started playing around with individual message summarization via a Chrome extension.

The next thing I've been thinking about integrating is giving a tool access to my gmail and then prioritizing, pinging me about time-sensitive messages, writing drafts for me, and overall summarization for entire conversations or bulk selected (thinking like a bunch of newsletters).

Amazing. Thanks for sharing your experience around this. Super helpful!

I'll say Heroku is still the quickest and easiest option, but it can get pricey fast and don't expect much support.

I'm currently using fly.io for my projects. A little bit more work, but a little cheaper and their docs/forums are pretty helpful. That said, once a project gets any sort of scale, I'll be moving my PG database to crunchybridge.com and let them manage the db for me.

Already felt like I was cheating with 2 "first" installs, but @jefftriplett is right: 1Password (homebrew is included in rails.new).

Chrome and then rails.new

Should be live now (naturally, I've been battling DNS issues): rails.market

Not yet. First version going up today.