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👨‍💻 Software engineer, 🌍 Global citizen, and 🚀 side project enthusiast. Coding my way through new cities and fresh ideas.
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Start with external services (Supabase, AWS, Firebase, Auth0, etc.) for early-stage.
Once you hit free limits, consider self-hosting.
1 VPS is enough for basics (e.g., lists), but for Kafka/WebSockets/big data/SLA/in-memory graphs cases, you'll probably need more than 1VPS.

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@levelsio If your project needed WebSockets, real-time analytics (Kafka strms), high availability (SLA), and big data processing, 1 VPS wouldn't be enough. You use 1 VPS because your product is simpler, but that won't work for more complex needs. And yes: selfhost > cloud when costs matter

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You know you're a startup founder when you have more unused domains than clients
#buildinpublic #StartupLife

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🚀 Just wrapped up a custom feedback form for https://t.co/P4axySWziS! Took 3 hours, but totally worth it 💪. Why pay for fancy tools when you can build your own? #buildinpublic #SaaS

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@upen946 https://t.co/wuKijSEjGd - Free alternative for Calendly and Calcom

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Excited to share that my scheduling app https://t.co/wuKijSEjGd, a free alternative to #Calendly, just hit 4x100 on Google PageSpeed! 🚀🎉 #WebPerformance #SaaS #WebDevelopment

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When you choose UI library for your next #reactjs project, one thing that can help you with your choice is how many locales the library support. I picked #materialui because it had date components already translated to many languages #buildinpublic

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If you're using @reactjs for your frontend and you need internationalization, I highly recommend Lingui.js - this lib has different approach and doesn't use key value vars, which makes your code easy to read and you don't need to come up with names for each text. #buildinpublic

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@reed @levelsio @Waymo Wow, insurance difference for autopilot vs human driver cars will be huge

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I really recommend to use 'pseudoLocale' while doing translations of your side, that way you can easilly spot all missing translations, like "Country" text in attached example #indiehacker #buildinpublic

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@levelsio @elonmusk Depends what the server is actually doing, if it’s just hosting some static landing page which is probably cached behind cloudflare then of course it can survive

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@levelsio do you have some autoscaling rules? i'm wondering how many views your servers handled at peak time and what was the size of your VPS

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What tool is currently the best for logo generation? #buildinpublic #aigen