ShipFast
Dev tools
boilerplate starter kit
SHOW HN2023
23points
37comments
#1,576of 3,109 in 2023
Top 51%of 2023 by points
How HN took it
RoastedHalf or more of the comments are critical
2 positive, 9 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 15 critical, out of 26 comments about the project. Thread score -0.38.
Execution: 1 for, 10 againstIdea: 1 for, 5 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Stack choices are sensible and opinionated starter kits are useful
From 2 comments
(Not criticising your choices, they’re mostly reasonable and opinionated stacks are very useful.) I’m curious if you can talk about why you went with mailgun, and especially why…
scrollaway on HNLots of negative comments below which I think are overly critical. I think the stack looks good and I’ve also had no issues with mongo. Will take a look!
phas0ruk on HN
Good decision selling the tool
From 1 comment
People forget that this is a starter kit. I see complaints against JavaScript vs Typescript for large projects. If you need to ship a web app in hours, I can guarantee that…
rbadillap on HN
Site design and typeface admired
From 1 comment
As a fellow solopreneur who builds a few apps a year, sorry but I'm not at all interested in something like this. Good luck though! P.S. love your site designs and layouts.…
bavell on HN
Objections
Closed source, so users cannot trust foundational code
From 1 comment
You might consider just releasing this as an open source repo. I’m sure your work is excellent but there is no way I would ever trust such foundational elements to a closed…
sickcodebruh on HN
Using JavaScript instead of TypeScript
From 3 comments
> Javascript or Typescript? > Javascript :) Pass
needz on HNOof, choosing JS over TS was certainly a choice. Not one that I would have made…
jmondi on HNArguable a reasonable choice to avoid tooling, but if you are going to use NextJS anyway… might as well choose TS
quickthrower2 on HN
MongoDB is a poor choice
From 2 comments
It uses NextAuth that in my experience works well only on Vercel (and they don't care) Also please stop using mongodb
audessuscest on HNAs someone who have dealt with it in the past two years, no. If you want to do complex queries (aggregations), it's a huge pain in the ass to do, reason about, and also…
theogravity on HN
Founder's startup count is inflated
From 2 comments
16 startups in 2 years? Should I too turn every other weekend project into a startup? Serious question.
jdthedisciple on HNLooking at his own numbers https://indiepa.ge/marclou it's hard to call most of these startups. He's embellishing at best.
MH15 on HN
NextAuth is hard to use outside Vercel and limits username/password login
From 2 comments
It uses NextAuth that in my experience works well only on Vercel (and they don't care) Also please stop using mongodb
audessuscest on HNNextAuth also intentionally made username-password authentication difficult to use because they think signing in with your Twitter or Google account is better. Meanwhile their…
alexlur on HN
Requests
Open source the repo
From 2 comments
You might consider just releasing this as an open source repo. I’m sure your work is excellent but there is no way I would ever trust such foundational elements to a closed…
sickcodebruh on HN> I hope this boilerplate will be as helpful to you as it is for me. Would love your feedback pls It’s a commercial product, so you won’t get much feedback as not many HN readers…
gitgud on HN
Explain choice of JavaScript over TypeScript
From 1 comment
Can you explain the choice of JS over TS?
lessaligned on HN
Recommend auth alternatives
From 1 comment
what other good recommendations do you have for auth?
lessaligned on HN
Questions
Where is the repo?
From 1 comment
I’m having trouble finding the repo for this project. Can you link it?
sickcodebruh on HN
Why MongoDB and Mailgun?
From 1 comment
(Not criticising your choices, they’re mostly reasonable and opinionated stacks are very useful.) I’m curious if you can talk about why you went with mailgun, and especially why…
scrollaway on HN
Alternatives named
Supabase
From 1 comment
(Not criticising your choices, they’re mostly reasonable and opinionated stacks are very useful.) I’m curious if you can talk about why you went with mailgun, and especially why…
scrollaway on HN
Postmark
From 1 comment
I used mailgun previously and was pretty happy with it. I'm using postmark now, forget exactly why I switched but I think it was because I can have one account with silo'd API…
bavell on HN
Passport.js
From 1 comment
Didn't know about this. I started a new personal project using NextAuth but without the username/pass features. Might have to reconsider since I may eventually add that back in.…
theogravity on HN
Ruby on Rails
From 1 comment
And yet, likely still slower than a plain Ruby on Rails app. This is not a troll, Rails remains one of the quickest, simplest, out-of-the-box ready solutions for a web app. Every…
multiplegeorges on HN