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by makeee 6y ago
Hey, I've been a solo-founder for the past decade and happy to chat anytime. Twitter/email in bio. You may like https://startupschool.org , as they have weekly group sessions where you can talk about your struggles. I t
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by makeee 6y ago
I'm building https://divjoy.com , which gives you everything you list as part of a Node/React/Firebase/Stripe codebase. It's fairly lightweight. You handle admin stuff through your Firebase and Stripe con
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by makeee 6y ago
It depends a lot on what your product does, so it's hard to give an estimate. I've built SaaS products that only took a few weeks. I've built ones that took 6 months. One way to save significant time/money is by using a
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by makeee 6y ago
Hosting: Yeah I really need to expand those hosting options. It was one of those things I expected to do much sooner, but didn't end up getting as many requests for hosts as I expected (at least compared to other features). That's
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by makeee 6y ago
Glad you like it! By functions as a service do you mean functionality hosted by me or shipping serverless functions with the codebase? At the moment you get any necessary server logic as serverless functions (formatted correctly for your ch
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by makeee 6y ago
Yeah there's always a bit of a trade-off there. You naturally learn how things work very well by building them yourself. In terms of the code that Divjoy gives you, I try to keep abstractions to a minimum and include as many helpful co
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by makeee 6y ago
Totally understand that! TS is coming at some point.. just don't have an ETA yet as I need to iron out some issues with TS support in the editor.
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by makeee 6y ago
Great to hear! Out of curiosity, would you prefer Divjoy offer the UI for that or would you want to roll your own (or use the official Tailwind UI)?
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by makeee 6y ago
Check out http://docs.divjoy.com for a changelog and roadmap. Tailwind is coming this year. If there's anything you need that's not on there feel free to shoot me a message. And yeah I was really excited to see the Str
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by makeee 6y ago
I'm going to be adding a Tailwind option soon that gives you the basic config + no UI. Hopefully useful to people that want to roll their own or drop in components from tailwindui.com. Later this year will be building out my own Tailwi
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by makeee 6y ago
Yes, for sure! A lot of people have been asking for Postgres and I want to get that in this year. For now some customers are using the "Other" DB option, which gives you a REST API where you can connect to your DB of choice.
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by makeee 6y ago
Hey HN, Divjoy is a tool that allows you to generate a fully-functioning SaaS app. You get a React UI, auth, database, stripe payments, billing, and so on. What makes it different from your average boilerplate is that you can customize your
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Show HN: Divjoy 2.0 – Build a SaaS app in minutes(divjoy.com)
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by makeee 6y ago
I’d argue that most people absolutely should not account for it. There’s enough to stress out about when trying to get your startup off the ground. The idea that your “spending” 2Ok a month due to opportunity cost is not helpful and probabl
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by makeee 6y ago
Thanks for buying! Once you give it a try I’d love to hear any feedback you have or requests for new components/integrations.
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by makeee 6y ago
Looks like they don't have time, but there's an open issue here: https://github.com/DavidWells/analytics/issues/96 . I probably won't have time for awhile.. but on the off-chance you're int
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by makeee 6y ago
That's a really good point! I may have a good number of those customers and not be aware of it. I need to do a better job of asking people what they're using Divjoy for.
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by makeee 6y ago
Thanks for letting me know! If you scroll down below the "Choose your template" section do you see a pricing section with purple background? I'm wondering if the scroll to logic is broken or if that section is just not being
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by makeee 6y ago
For Divjoy I'm using Stripe and PayPal (one-time payments). In terms of the code I give customers, I'm just doing Stripe subscription billing via the hosted Stripe Checkout page.
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by makeee 6y ago
Thanks, that's great to hear! I'm not a fan of having to signup/pay to see how an app works either. Figured a tech audience would appreciate that.
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by makeee 6y ago
This is what my product does: https://divjoy.com Gives you a full stack React app with UI, auth, db, payments, etc. Can be customized in the tool prior to export. Would love to hear if this is what you’re looking for or if you h
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by makeee 6y ago
The blog ranks really well without any special effort, but for Divjoy I haven't put in the work of setting up extra landing pages to rank for different topics. For example, I'd like to have a page like divjoy.com/nextjs+strip
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by makeee 6y ago
Gotcha! Then it shouldn't be too hard to integrate Authorize. UI is mostly decoupled from payment logic. Always happy to hop on a call if you need some help understanding anything in the codebase.
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by makeee 6y ago
I'd say that if you're interesting in learning to code then Divjoy may work for you. I try not to over sell it to non-devs, but I do have a fair amount of customers who are hacking at Divjoy projects while learning to code and are
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by makeee 6y ago
I've been meaning to look into that. At the moment I'm using this library as the analytics abstraction: https://getanalytics.io . I'll see if the Plausible team wants to create a plugin or do that myself when I hav
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by makeee 6y ago
My first batch of alpha testers came from a single Twitter reply [0] that got retweeted by a prominent person in the React community. It certainly helped that I had an okay Twitter following at the time (I think around 1k), but it doesn&#x2
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by makeee 6y ago
Big fan. The founder is worth following: https://twitter.com/lunchbag
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by makeee 6y ago
Divjoy [0] is now profitable and my full-time thing. It did $50k in year one and my goal is to break $100k this year. It all started with a Show HN [1], so thank you HN :) It was rough going at first, but I won the $15k YC Startup School gr
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by makeee 6y ago
Goals: - Grow my business from $50k to $100k/y - Grow number of dogs from 1 to 2 - Live a more balanced, healthy lifestyle - Hang out with friends/family in person again
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by makeee 6y ago
I’m building https://divjoy.com . My approach has been to let people make high level changes in a low-code editor (create pages, rearrange sections, tweak global styles) and then export as a React/Node codebase where they bu

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