What's (low budget) project stack do you use?
I just started solo dev last year and have been trying to keep all early prototype projects low budget. I personally build in a serverless way on @AWS and pay only for what I use (<$1 per month). I'm curious—what do you all use for low-budget development? Maybe I can find even cheaper build stack from you guys lol :)
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I use Hetzner Cloud and have the freedom to install and configure it according to my needs.
PHP, Python, MySQL, or MongoDB - does not matter ;)
I use DigitalOcean’s $5/month droplet and host my app there with a simple Node.js backend.
@samber_samsa Me too 😁
For front-end, I stick with React and Netlify for deployment. Both offer free plans that work well for prototypes.
For low budget development? My laptop, period, free (kinda)
For low budget deployment, usually a VPS, somewhere between $4 and $10/month, so yours beats mine.
@appsforhumans Thanks for sharing :) $4-$10 is still good considering you have dedicated resources. Actually cheaper than AWS instance lol.
@brandon_chen10 I go with digital ocean and install my own database. Having it run forever is still way cheaper than paying for a managed database. And if I ever needed to scale in the future. But pretty much you can run everything on one server for very low cost and then switch to AWS later if you really need to scale.