I’ll admit it, I’ve been tardy. I thought that having this would ensure that I kept writing, but also kept building. Better late than never, especially since it finally feels like there is progress again.
The virtual server continues to be a pain. I haven’t had any luck configuring any domain to function on the site. I need to take an afternoon and just connect with support. It’s probably for the best because I haven’t had time to dive deeper into the actual web application that I would be building on it. But here’s the good news:
Supabase: the structure behind user authentication makes sense. Perhaps not as easy as I’d have hoped in terms of the actual configuration, but the structure does make sense. The complexity of the pieces that need to work together to build something serious are starting to become clear. As is the importance of building something that can scale. It’s easy to build for 1000 DAU, but for anything with larger potential, you need to have the road map in place for something much much larger.
StackBlitz: Had the chance to revisit a previous iteration of the project and the code base makes more sense now than it did at the time. The code here seems to be more straightforward than Hostinger’s tool. The comparables for pricing will be the interesting part.
Hostinger Horizons: The seamless integration to Hostinger hosting makes this straightfoward. The trial is 5 messages per day, so I’m going to have to be careful with what I build out for tomorrow. A lot of the messages were needed to fix errors in the code it had generated. On a monthly plan it works out to $0.20 per request, which isn’t terrible when compared with the cost of hiring an engineer.