The Companies API

It took me a few days, but it was worth it. I wrote all the required unit tests for my backend APIs. To be honest, I should have done it from the start instead of using Postman to test the endpoints. But now it is done.

These last few days completely changed the way I think about writing backend code. Use TDD. You won't regret it. It is not a waste of time.

PS: I am using Japa + Chai, but you can use Jest if you are more familiar with it.

Just 30 days after the MVP release, the first payment has been made. And this is not a monthly payment but an annual plan. What is great is that this customer is, to this day, still a customer! I will be able to iterate on the product with his ideas to make the offer even more appealing.

The next objective is to reach 10 customers.

It took me approximately 5 months to release something that is working great. Yeah, I know. It looks like a long time to release an MVP. I probably could have been quicker. The thing is that I needed to make a few decisions regarding the stack and to get more familiar with it.

• Nuxt.js for the frontend.
• TailwindCSS.
• Adonis.js for my APIs.
• ElasticSearch for the search engine.
• Digital Ocean for the hosting (I chose to do the DevOps by myself).

I deliberately chose to bet on JavaScript only. I still believe that this is a good decision as I do not have to switch between languages while coding.

While I was visiting one of my best friends in Barcelona, I came up with the idea of designing a platform where you could download all the companies using a specific technology in a few clicks.

He found the idea interesting and told me to start now. I had some background in scraping websites, and I love building bots. I was looking for a project I could develop for many years. One of my most critical mistakes in the past was that I lacked resilience. The thing is that if you want to succeed, you must be resilient. Thus, you must choose a project you will love working on it.

So this is how began ProspectWith.