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Building a new service from scratch is hard.
I'm trying to use all knowledge and lessons-learned and code snippets that I've accumulated from other projects.

I'm building everything on Cloudflare workers because they are super speedy, cheap, scale well, and I don't have to worry about servers.
Also using google Firestore as database and cloud tasks to run asynchronous tasks without blocking the main form handler process. For example, sending emails and 3rd party integrations.

The UI is Vue3 on Quasar framework. I've became very fast developing in this environment, and even moving from vue2 to 3 wasn't too much hassle. Prototyping and experimenting with different designs is actually done on the product itself because it is faster for me than doing it in Figma and then moving to code.

One of the lessons that I've learned is to separate all repo's to Github organisation so it doesn't mix with any other stuff that I have.
Another lesson, I started a Google doc where I document the architecture and design decisions. I have another project that grew to have many services and even though I wrote everything I'm sometimes lost in it.

I try to think of marketing right from the start. This is still by far the hardest part for me. I've prepared a list of topics for content, and I think I've found my differentiator in the crowded market of form builders.
Balancing between marketing and coding is hard.

Right now I'm waking up at 5:30 and I have around 2 hours in the morning to invest in this. Mornings work better for me than evening time, because I can be more focused. But I feel I just don't have enough time.
Maybe I'll share some screenshots soon.

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