Tech to Try

My Preferred Tech Stack

For static sites, Next.js/Typescript/Tailwindcss with serverless functions deployed on https://vercel.com

For complex/dynamic sites, React/Redux/Typescript/Tailwindcss frontend with Phoenix/Elixir backend and Postgres DB deployed on https://render.com

Domains from Namecheap and Cloudflare CDN/Nameserver

To Better Current Stack

1. Radix UI

2. useId react hook

3. Upstash for Redis

4. React Native Reanimated

5. React Transitions from v18

6. https://zenstack.dev/, add hooks for prisms

7. Figure out benefits/when to use Webassembly

8. Try render.com yaml deployment

9. Fly.io

10. SQLlite with LiteFS

11. infisical.com Open Source Secret Management

12. Durable

New Techs to Try

1. Rust

2. Google App Engine for Deployment

3. Redis

4. ELK(elasticsearch, logstash, kibana)

5. RPC

6. Kubernetes

7. Infra as code

   1. Terraform?

   2. https://www.pulumi.com/pricing/

Other Notable Stuff

1. Remix Library - New Full Stack Framework that instead of loading components in cascading manner with their API calls, load in parallel https://remix.run/

2. Dendron for structured note taking - big problem is it doesn't autopreview markdown so takes up so much space

Generous Free Tier Tools

• Chatwoot

  • intercom with 10k contacts free

• Posthog Cloud - 1M events free

  • Feature flags, all event capture, session recording and more

• Segment - 1k free users a month then get expensive

  • https://www.rudderstack.com/pricing? Cheaper, better?

• Logrocket - 1k free user a month
• Sentry - 5k errors a month