what are your favorite (3rd party) tools to keep your (bootstrapped) startups running?

So the original yeezy.dating is built using: a) Node b) Pug for templating c) Mongo DB (database) d) Passport for Auth I'm fairly solid in React so have decided on React.Native to replace Pug for the app. Other than that could I just stick with the same stack? a) Node b) React Native c) Mo...

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.

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.

Currently trying to differentiate when to use Servers & when to go Serverless. Serverless will scale infinitely, although it has 1 small cost of cold starts but if the site is used regularly then cold start is not needed. Servers are inherently costly. Even if we don't use it to its full potent...

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...

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...

Hey WIP, Bad day today. My Heroku console has 1803 critical errors :( Are critical errors common? Looking at the specifics: a) I'm using 1X professional heroku dynos. Surely they can handle this level of traffic? b) I made a big mistake with images. Trying to write them to Heroku. Hopefu...

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 ...

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...

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. 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...

What's the preferred free tier of the cloud services right now? More context: I need to run a basic web UI + API server (which could go to sleep if there's no traffic, but hopefully not!), a Postgres instance, and a constant background daemon.

My DigitalOcean droplet is getting an upgrade so I’m considering running more services on it. Right now I just run an IRC web client for myself and host some websites. Had previously ran OpenVPN on it but didn’t find the whole setup as bulletproof as using a third-party.