Launched!
by Keith Weaver"If you're not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you've launched too late" - Reid Hoffman
The project was built over September and October, but then shelved while I was visiting Ireland. When I got back, I just never launched. Yesterday, I said it works great but lacks features. I'll have an embarrassing time launching this.
There is a lot of work to do, but I would love feedback. The tool works perfectly. I hope to have clear documentation in the coming days. I hope to also complete a demo video of the full process.
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I'd love to get more information on the site about what the magic is behind the process. As someone not working with the MERN stack, I imagine "all you need to do" to deploy it is to build your frontend dist, start your backend express application, route some nginx remote proxy to it and voila -- it's working.
To describe the value created by the application, perhaps you can be better at explaining what it actually does other than just "Deploying it".
(Super good name by the way -- hope you can find a domain for it)
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Do you have a link and/or description of what it is?
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Yes, I do.
In short:
It will setup boilerplate code for a MERN stack on a Digital Ocean droplet. This saves someone the effort of setting up an initial code base and a server just to prototype or begin to build out their MVP.In long:
Over the past two years, I've had a public repo on Github with boilerplate code that gets lots of traffic. For the most part, it was a great starting point for anyone building an application with a React front-end and Node backend. People used it and could build out their application.That followed up with how do I now take it off my local machine and put it on a server for others to use. For many, this isn't a hard task but for others using a new stack or not having much coding experience can make this task challenging.
This may seem obvious and there are other services out there but I wanted to see if someone who has the knowledge of building it would simply cut a corner and pay a small fee to get started. This is definitely an experiment. I don't really know if someone is willing to pay for it, but signs definitely point to it. Here is the repo I was referring to before: https://github.com/keithweaver/mern-boilerplate (700 stars). Here is a step by step guide on getting this code onto a server: https://medium.com/@Keithweaver_/setting-up-mern-stack-on-aws-ec2-6dc599be4737 (26k views). If you combined both of them, you accomplish the same thing or you can pay $25 and skip all of that work.
In September, I decided to build JumpStart for the people who just wanted a server running their app. They could simply begin building out their app and not worrying about how to get it to the public.
Here is a post that I published with it: https://medium.com/@Keithweaver_/single-click-deploy-a-mern-application-on-a-server-efbcbdf056ca?sk=714bdcd4e44b17bfeeaca28490e16ca4
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