I am Daniel the solo dev behind Bountycaster

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Happy new year 🎊

Hi! My name is Daniel. I am building bountycaster.xyz

Ex Phantom, 0x Project engineer.

From Italy originally, currently live in NYC

- Django for backend
- NextJS for frontend

Best choice ever made
- Django is the best 0-1 framework for CRUD apps that do not have low latency requirement. Django has Admin panel, scaffolding, routing, test framework, tons of resources
- NextJS is lovely to work with, good caching system

Both frameworks have ton of documentation, resources, support, which is something I care for a lot.

I'm also an early contributor of Django so I know some internals relatively well.

Nope, we use Render.com

Reason:
- server cost doesn't scale with volume
- little to no vendor lock in (we can move where we want)
- can run any programming language and framework (we use Python)
- we run long standing processes (like gRPC to listen to live Farcaster events). That is far more cost effective and possible outside of Serverless.

Do you use Vercel?

How have the costs been, if so?

Good question, boring is good for my startup.

The technology has a means to build the business, so the faster and more predictable I am at building, the better it is for Bountycaster.

would you not get bored by sticking to your usual stack?

Bounties and services on Farcaster bountycaster.xyz. Tag @bountybot to post and check out /bounties. FAQ: bountycaster.xyz/faq

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It's good, but not as good as TS.

If I didn't have certain requirements that steered me to Python, I'd def have chosen TS

is python good enough to communicate with blockchain?

I assume as of now @bountycaster doesn't have any web3 functionality per say, but curious your thoughts on future :)