[investa]

Building backends is easy. It is sort of weird. In 2003 no one would bat an eyelid at building an entire app and chucking it on a server. I guess front-end complexity had made that a specialism so with all that dev energy drained they have no time for the backend. The backend is substantial easier though!

These high value startups timed well to capture the vibe coding (was known as builidng an MVP before), front end culture and sheer volume of internet use and developers.

[999900000999]

It’s harder than signing up for Firebase.

You have to understand a separate set of concerns. Spin something up on ec2, hook it into a db, configure https , figure out why it went down, etc.

You’re right though, once I build a complex front end I want someone else to do the backend.

[jimbokun]

You need all that stuff when you need to scale. For an MVP you can get away with very little.

[999900000999]

It depends on how you deploy it.

Django on Render( and presumably a heroku) just works.

It's still much more work that just dropping in a Firebase url. Firebase can lead to poor design choices and come back to bite you, but hopefully by then you've already raised a few VC rounds and you're rolling in dough.