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by neongreen 1229 days ago
I wrote a journaling app for myself — https://windofchange.me. I’m currently the heaviest user, but there are others.

I’ve been a Haskeller for most of my career, but for this one I’m using Next.js and TypeScript for the backend and frontend.

GraphQL API (Pothos + Apollo), Postgres for the DB, DigitalOcean for the hosting.

Costs about $30/mo — hosting, managed Postgres, managed Redis. Could probably be $10/mo if I ran everything on the same droplet, but I like DO’s automated deploys and having to manage zero state by myself.