Yep, just look at @levelsio and his $250k MRR stack of apps built with PHP and jQuery
> I'm a little disappointed by all the negativity here, but I suspect most of us are just jealous.
Yep x2, for a website built around startups a huge number seem to be against a solo founder bootstrapping apps successfully
x3
Solo bootstrapper as well, ~20K ARR on one SaaS app about to launch another.
It's clear to me there's money to be made, and yes engineers tend to overweight engineering effort and underweight distribution.
Make something that makes someone's life better, saves or makes them money, and ask a fair amount for it.
That's what I've done and have modest recurring revenue after only 6-8 months or so.
My current job has 80 or 90 devs and we have both on-prem k8s, on-prem monolith, and plenty of "cloud-native" AWS stuff. Everything TS, GraphQL, messaging queues, exactly what you'd expect from an organization that size.
My side projects are all .NET MVC apps. Full-page reloads, manual deployments out of Visual Studio, etc. The only excuse for me to go the TS etc. route would be if that was the only thing I knew how to do, and honestly with as much as I've heard from folks like Tony and Pieter, if I was green now and only knew TS, I'd probably be learning PHP and Laravel.
Imho 90% of 90-developer companies out there could be replaced by 1-2 devs working same hours but more efficiently with a more efficient stack. I'm not even joking!