Hey HN,<p>In a previous project, I've used AWS Amplify for serverless development. It was fun to get started quickly, but once the complexity of my app started to increase, my development speed slowed down. I had to use complex products for simple tasks. Setting up lambda functions with external dependencies and testing lambda functions locally seemed like a burden. GraphQL felt like an overkill. My development-feedback-loop slowed down too much.<p>For my newest project I switched back to self hosting on my own VPS. My development speed is so much faster again :)<p>I've packaged the setup I'm using into a starter template. If you are interested you can find it here: <a href="https://www.taufels.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.taufels.com/</a>