[miroz]

Ditto. You should start with a monolith with a vision of how to break it down into microservices (if ever needed).

When my company got a contract for a new project, my colleague created a prototype, a bare-bone solution that had 9 web projects that communicated over REST, because microservices. I suggested starting with monolith. Guess whose design was accepted because it was more sexy. It never got to production for multiple reasons, but part of it was that development was awfully slow. Orchestrating changes across services when development is in flux is extremely hard.

[nixlim]

This. I am working on a personal project and definitely initial design and dev is easier in a monolith. Microservices, at the stage my project is at, will bring too much overhead to solve a problem I don't have (scale).