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That's so cool! Nice work!! Are you happy to share how you built and host it? How long has it taken you to get it to this point?


Thanks! I started out with a Nextjs full stack on Vercel, with db on Turso but ended up with a React frontend (next on vercel) and Go backend (selfhosted on vps).

Decided to port the backend to Go + postgres (on a Hetzner VPS), and retain the frontend on Nextjs - A lighter weight client, moving most of the compute to the backend API. Few reasons for the port: I've had a lot more success/stability with Go backends, Turso pulled multi-tenant dbs which is what I mostly wanted them for, Nextjs is getting too hard for me.

Go backend is just the std lib (1.22+ server with the nice routing) - I mostly write all the lines in this

Frontend is textbook modern react: React19,next15,tailwind4 - AI mostly writes the code in the frontend (Cursor + Cline + sequentialthinking + context7 + my own custom "memory bank" process of breaking down tasks). AI is really, really good at this. I wrote this https://image-assets.etelej.com/ in literally 2 days 2 weekends ago with less than 10% of code being mine (mostly infra + hono APIs)




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