After several React projects, I recently went “back to the roots” and created an app with server-generated HTML using the ages-old Mustache templates.
For interactivity, I added a bit of HTMX, and to have beautiful forms, I added the web components from Shoelace, all wrapped up in a Vite build.
And I must say that this was a relaxing experience: No complicated React stuff anymore, and the Typescript-based server components on AWS Lambda render the pages within 30 msecs each. AWS DynamoDB powers the data layer.
Feels like 1997 again, but I am Happy with the new stack!
As a solo founder, I know perfectly how difficult it is to market a product. So I thought: Let's work as a group to make our products look awesome. Let's find customers and convince them to buy. And let's discover how to gain real traction with our products. It's easier when you do it in a peer group, with other business owners.
No, of course not. I'm a big fan of Susan Cain's book "Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking".
Introverts are not necessarily shy or anti-social – these are qualities found in extroverts and introverts alike.
Introverts just need more energy when they are with other people. Extroverts even gain energy when they are with others.
Given that the noisy, interruption-based marketing style does not work anymore today, introverts are perfectly skilled for marketing: The new forms of marketing that focus on helping people get their problems solved, they give introverts a big advantage.
So true. I can totally relate because I had the same problem.
Whenever I write code, it either runs, or does not. It’s my fault, or I could say: it is my responsibility.
This is different with marketing. It depends not only on me but on other people’s behavior. And most of the time, I couldn’t see any relationship between effort and results.
Therefore, I have on my product roadmap a gamified loop with feedback, so that reluctant marketers have fun and keep being engaged to use the platform and stick to their habit.
For interactivity, I added a bit of HTMX, and to have beautiful forms, I added the web components from Shoelace, all wrapped up in a Vite build.
And I must say that this was a relaxing experience: No complicated React stuff anymore, and the Typescript-based server components on AWS Lambda render the pages within 30 msecs each. AWS DynamoDB powers the data layer.
Feels like 1997 again, but I am Happy with the new stack!