Hey HN,<p>I'm a solopreneur and I ship apps like a madman. 16 startups in the last 2 years.<p>I realized I was doing the same thing over and over: set up DNS records, connect DB, listen to Stripe webhooks...<p>So I built ShipFast for 2 reasons:
1. Save time and focus on what matters: building a business
2. Avoid headaches like emails ending in spam or waiting 3 days for Google to approve<p>I hope this boilerplate will be as helpful to you as it is for me. Would love your feedback pls<p>Marc
You might consider just releasing this as an open source repo. I’m sure your work is excellent but there is no way I would ever trust such foundational elements to a closed source boilerplate, especially coming from someone whose work I’ve never seen.
(Not criticising your choices, they’re mostly reasonable and opinionated stacks are very useful.)<p>I’m curious if you can talk about why you went with mailgun, and especially why mongodb. Supabase is my backend of choice nowadays esp for b2b apps.
Lots of negative comments below which I think are overly critical. I think the stack looks good and I’ve also had no issues with mongo. Will take a look!
And yet, likely still slower than a plain Ruby on Rails app.<p>This is not a troll, Rails remains one of the quickest, simplest, out-of-the-box ready solutions for a web app.<p>Every time I am tempted to try NextJS or the JS ecosystem in general, I immediately get frustrated by the fragmentation for what is settled and standard functionality. Typescript is what keeps tempting me, but Sorbet is helping with that.<p>I would absolutely love a Typescript on Rails.
As a fellow solopreneur who builds a few apps a year, sorry but I'm not at all interested in something like this. Good luck though!<p>P.S. love your site designs and layouts. Taking notes!
People forget that this is a starter kit. I see complaints against JavaScript vs Typescript for large projects.<p>If you need to ship a web app in hours, I can guarantee that nobody will choose Typescript over a more flexible stack.<p>@marclou I follow you on Twitter and must say that you made a great decision selling your own tool, congrats for that!
> <i>I hope this boilerplate will be as helpful to you as it is for me. Would love your feedback pls</i><p>It’s a commercial product, so you won’t get much feedback as not many HN readers will need/buy this.<p>Have you considered open-sourcing it?