Hey guys and girls, do you still use Heroku? I know they were hot like 5, 10 years ago but I'm not sure if that's true now? Thanks a bunch, Tom

Do you use automated error tracking like Sentry? Or maybe a self-written tool, like logging errors to Telegram? Basically, what’s your way of knowing about bugs in your apps?

Do you self-host anything? What tools or products? Comfortable running your own stack - or still feels intimidating? As for me, I self-host Plausible and my own tool, #telebugs. Curious how others use self-hosted stuff to ship better software.

Currently using Heroku and serving the files like so: app.use(express.static(path.join(__dirname, "public"))); I've looked into reverse proxy servers before but always found it complicated. . But from what I've read it would help out a lot. Maybe its time to make the leap. How simple is Nginx ...

I already built an MVP I built the MSI installer to package my python code together with my freelance developer. However, the installer is kinda buggy and it doesn't seem a good use of time if we have to learn how to build a proper installer ourselves. If I post a job on UpWork however, I am not ...

I tought myself Python. My original background is in marketing. For coding there are a ton of great resources out there and many qualified freelancers to learn from. However, I have a tougher time finding resources to learn better software related management. How to learn how to structure a deve...

Without going into a ton of detail, I have an idea for an application that logs PHP errors from a website. However, I'm torn between developing this as a SaaS subscription, or a standalone package which users can buy at a one-time cost. Option 1: I develop it as a SaaS, I have to pay for network...

It won't be a small project IMO. That is, I should be able to get some users and hence, stay motivated to work on it, and keep adding features. Will I miss out if I just go ahead with Firebase or Parse? I want to save time if possible.

So I have a multisite multilingual project. Imagine different websites on different domains using the same design and front end template with different content. I have a middleware that handles serving the different content. I'd like to build a frontend with VUEJS/NuXT or similar. How what I set...

Making a dating site. Imagine James "hearts" Sally's profile. I want a simple notification for Sally next time she logs in. Like Indie Hackers, where a little red number by your profile. My current idea is having both: {hearts: [james, fred, george]} {notifications: [james]} objects in th...

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Hi everyone, I am Oben from Up Ninja. I am releasing my project on Product hunt in 4 days, so it is time to throw myself to the fire 😀 I am working as a 9-5 software development engineer since 10 years and this is my first SaaS project. I am not new in the startup industry but new to SaaS area. ...

Hi 👋, I'm Ryan and I am building Optimize Toolset (https://optimizetoolset.com), a service that lets you setup automated tasks to run against your site(s). The first task offered will be automated Lighthouse Tests, to test the performance, accessibility and SEO of your site. I’ve started to work...

I can't get facebook to display the image I set in the og:image meta description in high quality. It only appears blurry even though I set it exactly to 1200x630px, and also it doesn't take the latest image I define either. Does it take days to update the new image?

Every time, I push new code on my app on Heroku, the new build & deployment logged out all current users and all of them need to re-login to the website.

I want to make a blog which will use /blog route & use Gatsby which will render a complete static page & then my other route /apps which will have all my apps & their server side logic like Payment on the same domain. Can I make this work like that ? One subdomain renders static pages & another r...

Making a dating site. It's nearly done, except I haven't sorted messaging between users yet. I've got two / three choices: a) NOT live messaging. Messages POST to backend. Requires a page refresh to display new messages. b) LIVE messaging! Making use of web sockets. I would also have to sav...