[mft_]

Have you written anywhere about the technology you use underneath - from languages to libraries to hosting?

I’ve got a few ideas somewhere between just started and half-written, but I often grind to a halt when it comes to figuring out sensible hosting. As an amateur, the world of AWS vs. GCE vs. Azure vs. Heroku vs. many, many others is difficult, and there are scary stories about out of control costs abound.

[cinntaile]

Pick what you know, that way you can focus on the project.

[abrookewood]

Haven't tried this yet, but Oracle have a very generous free tier: https://www.oracle.com/au/cloud/free/#always-free

[aqme28]

Build on the easiest thing possible (probably Heroku or a competitor). If you have to worry scale and how you'll pay for it then, well that's a good problem to have. Most projects won't get to that point.