How I built a product in 45 days!

I'm not a developer by trade, but I've got a hodgepodge of tech skills from spending my career in cybersecurity. I've always wanted to build an app for my friends to play a market making game, so I decided over the holidays that I'd do it! Using the cursor IDE (https://cursor.sh), I was able to design and build an app that ran locally in node.js on an express server with a mysql database in just one week! Success!!

Despite building out the game logic, handling authentication with trusted libraries and setting up email verification through AWS Simple Email Sender, I had no idea how long it would take to refine the design, deploy to AWS and connect to my domain. Things also slowed down a bit with family and travel, but after a few weeks I got my app into production on elastic beanstalk, connected up the DNS, set up IAM roles and security groups as well as annoying things like certificates for SSL and meta tags for social media.

If anyone wants to try it out, please give it a shot at https://agorae.io and let me know what you think! Happy to answer any questions about the development process or help out with any problems you're facing.