Still haven't finished shipping the product, but the newest thing I've been working on is a site/app for analysing asset prices (stocks, commodities, land/homes).
> What is your tech stack?
Ruby, Rails, Postgres, Sidekiq, Redis, Hotwire, Stimulus, TailwindCSS and Echarts for visualizations. Heroku hosting because I don't want to deal with devops and hosting costs are the least of my worries (data's expensive these days!).
> Why did you choose it?
My background is in economics, trading and business (among other things). I picked a tech stack that makes the parts I have the least experience with (web development) easy and the Rails ecosystem really can't be beat. The 'default' Rails tech stack is also nicely curated and seems to just work.
For the parts I do know very well (economics, financial analysis) Ruby is a great language. Python/R have a few more packages (and I've used R quite a bit) but I'm rolling my own business logic anyway and I prefer Ruby as a language to both.
> Do you think your choices had any impact on your success?
Progress has been surprisingly quick so hopefully!
> What is your tech stack?
Ruby, Rails, Postgres, Sidekiq, Redis, Hotwire, Stimulus, TailwindCSS and Echarts for visualizations. Heroku hosting because I don't want to deal with devops and hosting costs are the least of my worries (data's expensive these days!).
> Why did you choose it?
My background is in economics, trading and business (among other things). I picked a tech stack that makes the parts I have the least experience with (web development) easy and the Rails ecosystem really can't be beat. The 'default' Rails tech stack is also nicely curated and seems to just work.
For the parts I do know very well (economics, financial analysis) Ruby is a great language. Python/R have a few more packages (and I've used R quite a bit) but I'm rolling my own business logic anyway and I prefer Ruby as a language to both.
> Do you think your choices had any impact on your success?
Progress has been surprisingly quick so hopefully!