This reminds me of Nico Alm who was wearing a colander as hat on his picture of his passport. He argued that religious hats are allowed and he is a pastafari :-)
There are way more integrations in the integration layer, so maybe they should be either shown or a "..." somewhere should tell people that there is more.
The "Hub" is deprecated so it would be cool, that this fact is shown somewhere.
Some services mentioned really look promising, yet none offers the convenience that I would love (not thinking about anything) but I guess I will try some of the mentioned services!
I once thought about a plastic spoon. You need to dig up stuff from the ground use losts of chemistry knowledge to make it into plastic, have machines to bring it into this great form that is very thind and delicate hence stable. Then you need someone to bag lots of them up and put into boxes and ship halfway around the world to bring them into a shop so one can buy them.
And because this spoon costs next to nothing all this is considered less valuable then using a reusable spoon and wash it after usage.
Oh and i have a paper notebook where i sometimes sit in a coffeeshop and just do thinking by writing in the notebook. Thinking about the side project and its future. After the session i update the list of things to do.
For my side project i have a simple text note in a web notes app.
In that note i have a list of around 10 things i should do next, ordered by priority.
That's it. Either i work on one of the ten items or i do not. Only when i finish some items i add new ones. (Of course i also sometimes just reorder or delete stuff from the list.)
There are weeks where i do nothing and in those weeks i do not waste time with "busy work" but just look at the list from time to time and see that i am not motivated to work on the important stuff so i do not work on it at all.
Don't know what EDC means. But my backpack for commuting has almost always:
- bike lights (it gets dark early in winters)
- rain pants than can we wore over normal pants (in case it rains)
- some coins
- some Bonbons that are good for the throat
- still a COVID mask (too lazy to throw it away)
- a roller pen
- strangely I found a patch fo a fever blisters and a anti head ache pill
- a adapter from micro USB to USB so I can connect my yubikey to my phone. Turns out the microusb is so mangled already that it is only good for charging and not for data transfer so the yubikey does not work with the phone. Also ok.
- a small plastic bag (in case I come somewhere nice where garbage is lying around or where wild berries are found (or people selling berries or mushrooms on the side of the road)
- on weekdays a work notebook and headphones
"prototyping quickly" and "quick rampup" are for me a bit contradictory to "weak typing is a deal breaker". If I do not have to define types for everything, I am WAY faster with my prototypes.
Also given that it is frontend land, I am not sure any of the tools now available will be available (and compatible) in 10 years. And because it is a side project I would not spend one second worrying about 10 years from now.
HN will not tell you what you will like. Every now and then a question like this is asked and people just tell OP the tools they currently use.
I guess it would be best to create a mini app (reading a list of things from a backend and render it and maybe delete something from the list) in two or three frontend frameworks and then choose the one that felt the nicest for you.
As for design I guess Tailwind CSS is something for you. It is easy to make web sites that look nice. (All tailwind CSS sites look kind of the same, but this is OK)