Build Your SaaS

Six screens and a power glove


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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:

"What's your tech stack for Transistor?"

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
  • Transistor.fm
  • Transistor.fm on Instagram
  • Transistor.fm on Twitter


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