MVP launching tomorrow
by KyleI started building the Social Image App in March and since then have learnt so much! I’ve been coding for over 10 years and, even so, this was technically challenging. I’ve built the entire app using javascript (NodeJS and React).
This was due to:
- the popularity of JavaScript and thus easier to maintain the product in
- my experience with the language
- ability to serve statically from S3
The backend of the app is built with AWS Amplify. Although amplify is a fairly new project, it is extremely powerful to go from 0-100 real quick. The image automation api and the business logic is running via AWS lambda - which means I can scale quickly and keep running costs and maintenance ridiculously low.
It’s been one hell of a journey so far but it’s been 100% worth it. One thing I’m struggling with is being able to launch with bugs. I’ve seen my 5 or so competitors apps and they have bugs... so logically it seems okay to launch and fix on the go. There must be a word for this fear of launching a product with bugs!?
Enough for now - I’ll update tomorrow after launching 😊
