Hi
Second time doing startup founders here, trying to share some of my experience building this time around
I started with create-t3-stack with some modification
My priority of selecting tools are in this order:
Speed and momentum: how much experience do I have, how easy it is to configure from scratch, hire new people If the team able to expand
Flexible pricing: mostly pay for what I use and not rent an actual the server
How active is the community for me to search for support. How long have they been around for stability and better answer from chatGPT (hehe)
Development Infrastructure
Github copilot: code suggestion
Sentry: for log and debug
Sonarqube: for code quality
Posthog: user activity collectio
Product Infrastucture
NextJS (Vercel)
Shadcn(Tailwindcss)
Planetscale database
Prisma
Clerk
Upstash: Redis serverless for building scheduler
Last but not least: OpenAI API with Instructor helper library from my man https://twitter.com/jxnlco
Looking forward to hear your feedback