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by metaloha 764 days ago
This looks pretty good, and I like that it's fairly lightweight compares to some other options.

My suggestions are mostly along the same lines (and having not seen the source code) - use a plug-in architecture for some things. MySQL is fine, but a lot of companies use PostgreSQL. Google OAuth is fine, but many companies like Auth0. You main project provides a stable API for each option, but the end-developer can swap out PGSQL for MySQL if they choose without needing to change any code (well, maybe their SQL).

Your FAQ mentions some templates (HTML I assume?) but that's not shown in your Features list anywhere - devs will want to know what pages have already been stubbed out for them.

Good luck with this!

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Hi there,

Thank you for the kind words, you understood the product very well. Your suggestions got me thinking, I didn't realize Auth0 was popular among indie hackers, as to me it was more like a large enterprise solution. I also decided to release second version of FasterNode, this time utilising PostgreSQL as the DB.

You are also right about the fact that I should mention which pages are already built, so thank you very much for your suggestions, this helps me make a better copy and understand what direction I should take with the project.