What essential products do you use to run your... product?
I'm building an app on the Firebase: Hosting + Store + Storage
I installed Google Analytics already and just integrated https://metomic.io/ for Cookie + Data consent.
What other products do you rely on and at what stage do you incorporate them?
Not to be overly negative, but from a visitors perspective I find metomic very frustrating, particularly on mobile.
I get that you want analytics, and that means you need a cookie opt-in, but holy hell, I can't even see the top fold. I don't know what this site is about yet, I have to pass a 'cookie wall' to find out.
If I want only the essentials, I have to go through a deliberately unfriendly series of menues to deselect things.
Immediate Back for me.
I'm not saying I have a better solution, but jfc, just add a button for 'only the essentials'. Maybe they already have that option, but I've never seen anyone use it.
Interesting! I actually like the UI/UX of seeing what a website is recording and sharing and having the option to deselect them. I find the one button a non-issue and they do have an "Essentials" option. But I appreciate the feedback!
What solution do you like best when it comes to notifying about cookies?
I'm not sure to be honest. More grainular control of cookies is good, obviously, but as a ux issue id prefer more information density. Eg. Here it takes 7 clicks to turn off 2 'features'. And all the while, I don't even know whats on the page I'm opting in for.
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Here's the tech stack that I'm currently using for oneprofile.info
Backend
Ruby on Rails, Heroku, AWS
Frontend
Bulma, Jquery, Vanilla Javascript
Business Support
Stripe, Typeform, Gitbook, Chatra/Crisp, MailChimp, Sendgrid, Simple Analytics, Medium, Metomic, Notion, Taskade, Tempo
Design
Figma, Canva
I wrote a pretty detailed explanation on my post on Medium here:
https://medium.com/one-profile/one-profiles-tech-stack-eec321f479f5
Vanilla Javascript!?! Are you nuts!? JK! that's amazing!
Why use Heroku and AWS? Why not just AWS?
Lols!
I've detailed the specific usage on the medium post here:
https://medium.com/one-profile/one-profiles-tech-stack-eec321f479f5
Essentially, I use Heroku to deploy my app and AWS for storing and delivering assets via S3 and Cloudfront respectively.
Hope it helps!
As a Full Stack Software developer I end up wanting to use a lot of enterprise solutions for my own projects. However, I finally realised that it's not worth the overhead at the beginning.
There are so many good free tier services to get your product up and running very quick. Later it's still possible to upgrade to this enterprise tier software, when you make money.
Champange Problems! 🍾
Recently had very good experiences using these two:
How do you like Gumroad compared to Stripe?
Haven't used both in a production app. However, i've implemented stripe while I was thinking about gumroad. I wanted to implement a simple licence model, which required a own backend license model on stripe but is built in and customizeable by Gumroad. This is amazing.
I've I ever bother with the limitation on gumroad I'm making enough money to built a custom payment tool. 🤷♀️
Hey Tim, I'm curious as to what are you looking for in a tool to help you run your product? Our team is currently building an all-in-one product management software and I'd love to get your thoughts on it.
Just curious what's people are using to build their product, manage product, early-stage marketing tools.. etc. I'm a JS developer so I like building tools but I'm definitely looking to get to launch faster with a new product.
I've kept it pretty simple for divjoy.com:
Metomic looks great. Are you using their free plan? Any complaints?
I just integrated them into my Nuxt.js build and its as easy as Crisp's integration! I just signed up for Crisp's free plan and wow they have a lot of features. Very awesome recommendation.
I've test Zeit Now in the past, love the product. I'm just curious how Firebase (GCP) will fair. I've read some good and bad about it.
Stripe is great. I'll integrate them when I'm at that point.
GA, pretty standard. Integrates well with Firebase. I'll look into Amplitude for sure!
Thanks for the recommendations!!