Build Your SaaS

This episode is sponsored by Bullet Train. If you’re building a SaaS in Ruby on Rails stop what you’re doing right now, and visit BulletTrain.co.

You asked us:

In this episode, Jon goes into the nerd stuff. What programming language, frameworks, and infrastructure we're using to build our SaaS.

What we recommend:

• Programming language: use what you know!
• Make sure you can connect to the community (both local and on the web)
• Hosting: use Heroku if you don’t have DevOps experience, AWS is great if you know how to configure it
• Database: MySQL is fine, we use Postgres (good community + features)
• Design framework: Semantic UI, or Bootstrap
• Repos: GitHub
• Most important: Get something running as quickly as you can (and into the hands of customers!).

Show notes:

• Sponsor: BulletTrain.co
• Paul Graham's "Do things that don't scale"
• Nate Kontny’s take on “should you use Rails?”
• Stripe Atlas
• DHH on Rails 5.2
• Justin’s video tutorial
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