How to choose the right Tech Stack for your SaaS Product

Let me break down the Tech Stack of FeedHive, and walk you through some of the considerations and pros/cons that you want to keep in mind when deciding on a Tech Stack for your next SaaS Product.
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#saas #startup #technology #aws #cloud #nodejs #javascript
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Content:
0:00 Introduction
1:38 Serverless Architecture
3:02 Components of the Cloud
4:17 GraphQL and AppSync
5:11 Lambda Functions
6:45 User Authentication
7:57 The Front End
9:22 Client-Server Interaction
10:37 Testing the Application
11:23 Deployment
12:19 Summary
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Resources:
Amazon Web Services:
aws.amazon.com/
DynamoDB:
aws.amazon.com/dynamodb/
GraphQL:
graphql.org/
AppSync:
aws.amazon.com/appsync
Cognito:
aws.amazon.com/cognito/
Amplify:
docs.amplify.aws/
React:
reactjs.org/
create-react-app:
reactjs.org/docs/create-a-new...
Cypress:
www.cypress.io/
Apollo Client
www.apollographql.com/docs/re...
Serverless Framework:
www.serverless.com/
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[@brucewayne4160]

Man, just PURE value right there NO BS. Love it.

[@reubence_]

Incredibly detailed! Thanks you for this!

[@aliarslanansari]

I was waiting for this video from day you launched FeedHive❤️

[@SimonHoiberg]

Awesome! 🤩

[@vinitraut1425]

This was a really nice breakdown. Thank you, Simon!

[@SimonHoiberg]

Thank you Vinit 🔥 I'm happy to hear it was helpful!

[@baran2]

Great video, Simon 👏 As someone looking to bootstrap my own SaaS in the coming months this was really informative. I'm usually afraid to ask for advice from people, but this video helped settle some of my worries, thank you!

[@SimonHoiberg]

That's really great to hear 🙏 Thank you - and good luck with your SaaS Product!

[@laurentlemaire]

Thanks for this tech insight - love it!

[@BantanaAudio]

Best tech stack walk through i've ever seen

[@SimonHoiberg]

Thank you 🙏

[@EdgeTechnology]

I like this solution and will seriously consider it for upcoming projects.

[@tanzeelhassan2934]

you never fail to impress, Simon!

[@SimonHoiberg]

Thank you, Tanzeel 💪

[@TheEamonKeane]

Excellent Simon. I love using Feedhive

[@SimonHoiberg]

Thank you 🧡

[@johnnyr1720]

Thank you, Simon. I liked, I subscribed and I think I will learn a lot from you.

[@phantom7132]

I first saw you on Twitter and through your SaaS promo I landed here. I like the way you explain, very clear and the dense of information is convenient. I'd like to see more SaaS related videos. YT is full of "make your own SaaS that brings you 5,000 $ in the first month"-videos but most of them are people who have never written a single line of code, ergo, not interesting and kinda unrealistic (not to mention that money should be the motivation to make a SaaS, imo it's the passion to solve problems and create useful and valuable solutions). Keep on making great content!

[@SimonHoiberg]

I completely agree! And I really appreciate the recognition - I also think there are way too many SaaS videos on KZbin promoting a completely unrealistic image of what it takes to run a successful product.

[@kieran2347]

Thank you, Simon. Just hit the play button 🙂

[@SimonHoiberg]

Awesome 🤩

[@KylePrinsloo]

This should have 1,000,000 likes

[@SimonHoiberg]

Thank you, brother! I'm happy you got something out of it 💪 (Even though it's quite old by now).

[@francescociulla]

Thank you Simon🔥

[@SimonHoiberg]

You're very welcome!

[@eugenejasper1216]

Another great video, Simon! Fantastic presentation!

[@SimonHoiberg]

Thanks a lot 🙏 I'm happy you like it!

[@scrapletyt9106]

Thanks I was very unfimiliar with the concept of serverless this video helped me a lot

[@SimonHoiberg]

Awesome! Glad it helped!

[@Ta3allamOnline]

This is super helpful! Thanks! :) If you've an online course where you explain how to create SAAS, I'm definitely into it! I'm not into programming that much but I'm welling to learn more about the technical aspects as I'm welling to create one, so I want to know more in order to be able to take decisions and guide a team throughout the journey. ;)

[@SimonHoiberg]

Thank you, I'm really happy to hear that! I have a small mini-course here on KZbin 😁 You should check it out. kzbin.info/www/bejne/l3arnqSrmNmZn9U

[@rishabsahni1761]

brilliant video Simon

[@SimonHoiberg]

Thank you!

[@TheMISBlog]

Very Useful,Thanks

[@SimonHoiberg]

Glad you liked it 💪

[@JordanKaufman]

I have some AWS experience but was thinking of relying on no-code tools because I'm interested in more of a micro-SaaS approach or at least multiple SaaS offerings spinning up until one of them takes. This is making me reconsider.

[@Buddfox]

This is still a complicated stack with a steep learning curve….if you are a noob you will need help

[@Prakhart4]

that was really helpful

[@ts1609]

Great Video. Would you recommend building a SAAS application via micro-services architecture?

[@l0g1cb0mb]

As as Software Engineer looking to do similar, your Gong-Fu is good! ^_- I can't gainsay any of the stack or process out lined specifically and that's pretty nice! XD You mentioned Lambda so I expect the code is coded appropriately tight and all that (nice going Typescript BTW) An argument I hadn't really considered before was keeping the front and backend the same language (TS\\JS) vs. C# for the backend and TS for the frontend. Pipelines with regressions and all seemed like you checked every box, dotted every i and crossing every t! I expect CI\CD automation to be part of the workflow given how ideal everything else sounds. Sounds like my motto made manifest "No problems only solutions!" - Tron. Nice work, and thanks for sharing the wisdom!

[@interactivetech1]

Great video! Would love to learn what templates and tips to create beautiful websites!

[@konstantin6524]

Such a good video, thank you, Simon! Have you done everything on your project on your own, it's very interesting?

[@SimonHoiberg]

Thanks a lot 🧡 At the time of making that video, yes I did. Today, various people have been involved and helped build the app.

[@rayfan5648]

Another good video! About your cost the $0.08 per user per month means when there are 1k active users your monthly is $80. This sounds a bit high to me. But certainly not a problem if you have paying customers to offset it.

[@SimonHoiberg]

Thank you 😊 Yeah - it's also worth noting that the $0.08 is calculated based on a very small set of early adopters. It's also likely to be less, as the number approached 1000+ users. Nonetheless, paying for uptime of various instances and clusters to support the same setup as FeedHive consists of right now, will quickly run up higher, at least when the number of users is smaller.

[@durgadb7204]

Thankyou Simon☕

[@SimonHoiberg]

The pleasure is all mine 🧡

[@emilioRdguez]

Simon this video is amazing. Thanks for sharing. I imagine that FeedHive has grown in a year. I really like to see a video about the changes and the challenges that fou faced in your journey with FeedHive. You really inspired me. I have assisted this specific video 7 times and taken note of your whole solution. Thanks for your work. 🙌🙌👌

[@SimonHoiberg]

I'm super happy to hear that, Emilio 🙌 And yes! A lot has happened. Check out my other KZbin videos 😁 They're all about the journey and the process!

[@factmation_videos]

Great video Simon. Do you use single table model for dynamodb or u use multiple tables?

[@SimonHoiberg]

Multiple tables, but not fully relational (like you would in SQL). We use the single table model for data sets that we most commonly perform operations on - though, we do keep some separate tables to simply organize things better.

[@fredfgb]

Nice video Simon, btw for aws serverless the new execution billing time is 1ms, which still pretty cheap..

[@SimonHoiberg]

Yeah, I actually noticed that after creating the video 😁 Thanks!

[@justrocketscience9930]

Excellent video and well structure. Thank you @Simon. Do you see any aspects of the tech Stack needing a change / update from Feb 2021?

[@SimonHoiberg]

Thanks a lot, Anurag 🙌 I'm happy you enjoyed it! And yes, we did change a few things. A core part of the application - the process that's handling the delivery of scheduled posts - is now running constant-uptime instead of pay-per-execution-time. We're running on Fargate, so it's still serverless, but both cost and computation has increased slightly since this video 😊

[@justrocketscience9930]

@@SimonHoiberg Oh how interesting! How does one make the trade for constant uptime vs. pay-per execution? is it purely based on the traffic that you are seeing/expect to see?

[@harshith_reddyyy]

Simon, for a B2C micro SAAS Would you recommend React or Flutter for front end

[@raguleaswaramoorthy8198]

Hi Simon. Such an awesome video. Have a few questions Why did you use recoil for state management?

[@melonicbakesandtreats5319]

000000000

[@sitedev]

Gold!

[@SimonHoiberg]

Thank you 🧡

[@swagatochatterjee7104]

Should I do TDD for building the MVP? Or is just enough Integ. tests that checks one's happy flow is enough?

[@gnanaprakashm8793]

Great Video. Have a question in mind Why did you use serverless framework instead of aws amplify?

[@SimonHoiberg]

It's a great question! AWS Amplify is great for quickly spinning up a setup, or for beginners to AWS. To have a more custom and configurable setup, Serverless has quite a lot more to offer.

[@onemanops]

where did you get those sick beats

[@abhijeetkumar8193]

I'm using netlify - serverless and aws s3 for images/videos for my website. Now I'm worried about which service so that I can scale easily with best pricing facilities. Should I change to AWS serverless or stick with netlify serverless? Which will be more cheap in price

[@jesulobajohn8468]

Hello, it seems every thing here is based on AWS What do you say about firebase?

[@abdulbasitimtiaz]

amazing

[@SimonHoiberg]

Thank you 🧡 Glad it was useful.

[@eliodrallag4806]

Azure and gcp left the room

[@codelucky]

Firebase is still favored for speedy market entry. Once there is sufficient traction, the app may be rebuilt in an efficient and cost-effective manner.

[@SimonHoiberg]

I'm not sure I agree Firebase is that much more speedy than AppSync. I've built projects in both, and in terms of speed, it's roughly the same. It's a preference thing, mostly.

[@codelucky]

@@SimonHoiberg Firebase is DataBase with synchronization and synchronisation is simple with Firebase. AppSync is a data synchronization service that does not care where or how your local data is kept, making it difficult to manage your data offline in your Web/Native apps.

[@littlebrit]

They are kind of fun to click around and easy to use. But really super expensive. Even when stopping VPC and databases, everything is bleeding money.

[@dave0811]

Does Amplify need to use TypeScript instead of JavaScript?

[@Prakhart4]

Hey, wb MongoDB Realm is it good enough?

[@neonknowledgehub9172]

It was more like explaining the features and services of the AWS

[@varaprasadhalajangi8200]

cool, cool

[@TAO7TAO7]

Valuable content here, Thank You! How much would it cost to develop this kind of architecture? (order of magnitude)

[@SimonHoiberg]

Thanks a lot 🙏 It depends on what you mean by "develop"? As in, developer hours and seniority level?

[@TAO7TAO7]

@@SimonHoiberg Hi Simon! I mean setting up and configure the various ServerLess services you are mentioning. Yes, considering developer/architect hours. For my ERP SaaS project, I am also considering Containers. I am afraid ServerLess can quickly become a mess without a strong tech-lead to enforce developer guidelines. Thank You once more for your time and efforts

[@hardikshah9906]

How is the lambda coldstart response time for you?

[@SimonHoiberg]

Slow at times.

[@hs-hs-hs]

Go + Gin + Postgres + ECS

[@SimonHoiberg]

Nice one as well!

[@jajajavascript1962]

At 4:19 how is Graphql an alternative to SQL or MySQL? Great video btw👍

[@SimonHoiberg]

As in - it's a different specification for querying data 😊 And thank you 🙏

[@fedorp4713]

It's not, it runs on top of your database, whatever you use. It's a replacement for APIs, not databases.

[@davideyt1242]

It is not, a lot of the advice given in this video is a disaster... yeah sure, go put all of your eggs in one basket on a product that you sell to customers, let AWS dictate the rest of your business life and the customers as well.. use the everything-managed-and-proprietary stack so you don't have to know how anything other than writing code.. what could possibly go wrong. Let me get you in on a little secret: NONE of well known and successful SaaS product in the world are using such approach

[@Deltacasper]

Do you run any scheduled jobs and if so which services did you use to set it up. Does aws have a scheduler service? Also please include Infrastructure diagrams of the site if it is possible security wise 😁

[@SimonHoiberg]

Yes, we're using AWS EventBridge. It's using CRON syntax to invoke lambdas on a schedule 😊

[@naman_dw]

How do you manage cold starts for Lambda functions?

[@SimonHoiberg]

We don't 😊 We just let them start when they need it.

[@androkles04]

The content of the video is very informative, though I'd probably rename the video as its title seems misleading. You don't offer much advise or reflection on different approaches to different tech stacks - it's more focused on what you've chosen and why.

[@akashmane2624]

Using CSS or any pre-processors? Also any CSS framework that you are using ?

[@SimonHoiberg]

We're using Emotion and Chakra UI 😁

[@akashmane2624]

@@SimonHoiberg thank you 😁

[@ryanmcdonald6596]

Do you have a diagram of this?

[@halimabegum5333]

What is the step to starting a SaaS product?

[@SimonHoiberg]

Check out this video, Halima. kzbin.info/www/bejne/l3arnqSrmNmZn9U

[@fahrican9708]

you said at 04:23 GraphQL is a query language and an alternative to SQL and MySQL, it is not! GraphQL is an alternative for RESTful or RPC APIs.

[@ShivamJha00]

I thought graphql was an alternative to rest APIs

[@SimonHoiberg]

It is 😊

[@dimitri9502]

This feels like a AWS commercial. While these technologies are ok for a POC, I wouldn’t want to be vendor locked in by Amazon.

[@SimonHoiberg]

Why on earth not?

[@laoso8776]

🤣🤣

[@FranzAllanSee]

Hmm… this wasnt much of a “how to choose the tech stack for your saas” and more of a “*what* i choose as my tech stack for my saas”

[@SimonHoiberg]

That's a fair point! You don't think the video delivered according to your expectations from the title?

[@yark618]

Too fancy IMO.

[@SimonHoiberg]

Why? 🤔

[@davideyt1242]

If your advice was worth anything, you would not be censoring (deleting..) other opinions written here by tech experts.. even if you give bad advice. I guess all of this is to promote your product.. oh well

[@hasnainabbasdilawar8832]

Gold!

[@SimonHoiberg]

Glad you liked it 🙌