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Need help building an MVP

I'm building a community of independent businesses in Leeds, UK. My community is called Leeds Indie List, and will essentially act as a directory for all indies to sign up, add their business/businesses and have them listed on the site. I am a front end developer, and i need someone who can build the backend infrastructure. Ideally i want it built in AWS using Cognito for Auth and API Gateway + DynamoDB for the API & database solution.

The front end of the website will be built in react.
If anyone can help please let me know!

on June 4, 2020
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    I've been tempted to do something like this using Carrd and a form to submit (then just update it manually).

    Similar advice to what others are saying, just a different set of tools.

    I personally am not keen on embedded Airtables in websites, each to their own, eh. :)

    How can you keep it as simple as it needs to be? Then focus on sharing it and see what happens.

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      I know you can use https://webflow.com/, jetboost.io/ and something like integromat to do that.

      I'm also looking to build a native solution into Versoly, but need to do a ton of customer research before I build it.

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    You should try building an MVP on your own using Glide App and Airtable. If you have demand you can move on to a more robust platform like Webflow and if you need more then go to custom development like how you mention above.

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    https://www.gatsbyjs.org/blog/2020-03-26-service-relief-project/
    Dont kill your self with all the those tools. See above or do carrd+airtable

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    just use firebase, its much easier if you don't know jack about backend

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    One solid advice: Don't use DynamoDB

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    Why do you want it all on AWS, and why specifically those technologies?

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    You can building in wordpress. Is easy.

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      Easy and wordpress not something you see often :)

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    Hey I can help you with it. Can you email me the details? You can find it on my profile :)

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    I would just use a google sheet to test demand, if it grows then you can build it out.

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      How does that work?

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          Good reminder that I can merge that with some of the meetup ideas that I'm trying to do. :)