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by shiggaz 412 days ago
That's so cool! Nice work!! Are you happy to share how you built and host it? How long has it taken you to get it to this point?
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Thanks! I started out with a Nextjs full stack on Vercel, with db on Turso but ended up with a React frontend (next on vercel) and Go backend (selfhosted on vps).

Decided to port the backend to Go + postgres (on a Hetzner VPS), and retain the frontend on Nextjs - A lighter weight client, moving most of the compute to the backend API. Few reasons for the port: I've had a lot more success/stability with Go backends, Turso pulled multi-tenant dbs which is what I mostly wanted them for, Nextjs is getting too hard for me.

Go backend is just the std lib (1.22+ server with the nice routing) - I mostly write all the lines in this

Frontend is textbook modern react: React19,next15,tailwind4 - AI mostly writes the code in the frontend (Cursor + Cline + sequentialthinking + context7 + my own custom "memory bank" process of breaking down tasks). AI is really, really good at this. I wrote this https://image-assets.etelej.com/ in literally 2 days 2 weekends ago with less than 10% of code being mine (mostly infra + hono APIs)