Our 🐣 to 🐤 Journey (Tech Stack Breakdown 👨🏫)
Today marks the 1 year Anniversary of our side-project turned side-company Pricewell.🙌
It has been an incredible journey filled with many ups and downs but ever lasting memories, lessons and experiences ✨
Here's to a ✌️ year to come!
Just for the context Pricewell helps creators collect and manage subscriptions fast and effortlessly from their websites without engineering needed in less than 15 mins⚡
Here's a breakdown of the tech stack over time...
🐣Pre Launch Tech Stack
Website - Gohugo.io
Styling -MVP.css
Email signup - Sendpulse
🎯 Pre-Launch Signups: 100 Next, building the MVP...
🎨MVP Tech Stack
Frontend - React
Backend - Node.JS & Postgres
🐱💻 Total Features: 1 (no code pricing pages)
🎯 Total Free Accounts: 20
💰 Total Paid Accounts: 0
We added features based on user feedback
👨💻Current Tech Stack
Frontend - React
Backend - Node.JS & Postgres with Google Cloud Functions and Push Queues
🐱💻 Total Features: 5 large, 100s of small delights
🎯 Total Free Accounts: >300
💰 Total Paid Accounts: 5
If you're interested in Pricewell, we give away an anniversary 90% discount on any paid plan.
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Congrats on your 1-year-anniversary 💪🥳
Would you pick the same tech stack again? What are your biggest learnings regarding the stack?
I think we would, yes
The most important lesson would be to launch as early as possible.
Even with the most simplistic design and the easiest to implement stack.
Build your MVP fast and start collecting feedback from your early users.
Refining the product, the UI/UX, adding features, etc. should be come at a later stage. Check if you have your idea validated first, with the easiest stack possible.
Complex stack is time-consuming, therefore it's much more appealing to have a simple to design product with many feature requests and improvements to come, than a complex/ready to use product with no feedback and barely enough traffic.
It is always, a case-by-case study, and different products come with different solutions needed, but the I hope I get the main idea passed here.
thanks a lot for sharing your learnings 😊🙏