stk (https://github.com/level09/stk): async Quart + Vue 3 starter i use for everything. auth stack is already wired up (session, 2FA, webauthn, oauth), async sqlalchemy, alembic, no frontend build step. basically the boring part so i can get to the actual product faster.
ziglag (https://github.com/level09/ziglag): self-hosted invoicing for freelancers, built on top of stk. clients, invoices, VAT, PDF, shareable links, MIT. got tired of paying a monthly fee to send a pdf.
idea is to keep chipping away. every subscription that annoys me is fair game. small tools, self-hosted, no accounts, no seats, no upsell. if it's useful for me someone else probably wants it too, so might as well open source it. open to ideas on what to kill next.
Same here. Premium account, years old, barely post, banned with no explanation.
What’s worse: no way to notify followers or export data after a ban.
Lesson here: Never outsource your identity or communication to a platform you don’t control, treat them as disposable channels, that might disappear any day.
Software startups still work, but only if software is not the point.
Code is now cheap, so the advantage moved into things that cannot be copied by looking, accumulated data, hidden workflows, trust, and judgment earned by staying inside a problem too long.
Big companies copy shapes, not gravity. If your edge is visible, it is temporary. If it only appears over time, you are still early.
This is my actual stack, been using Enferno for years, ReadyKit is just the SaaS layer on top. No straying, more like cleaning up what I already run in production.
Stack choices: Flask for its elegant simplicity without hidden conventions, Vue with Vuetify over CDN to skip build-tool pain (massive productivity and time win btw), PostgreSQL because boring is reliable, Redis (optional) for sessions and caching, and Celery when background jobs are needed (optional too)
Python is having a moment right now, between the AI ecosystem, Astral tooling and a huge talent pool. I think calling it the worst choice is a stretch :)
The real question is not raw speed. It's how fast you ship, how many users you need before performance matters and whether you actually own your stack. Most modern solutions push you toward third party auth. This gives you full self hosted auth out of the box.
I wanted an easier way to do tasks with AI agents wit easy deployment flaw, simple config. work is still in progress.