Glad you enjoyed it! Yeah I've been itching to just build stuff, and so I think we'll probably see much more of this. Thanks for the feedback! Editing the video took a while though xD
Really informative video. From a software dev POV, how much emphasis and importance do you put into visual design, UI and UX. I've worked with software developers before, and most of them really prefer the coding and logic, and prefer to avoid doing much of the designing and wireframing. Would you partner with a UX designer for small startups, and if not, what other role/position do you think would complement yours best? Curious to hear your take on this.
Great question @sudhitheboat. I'd say it definitely depends on the application and on the developer. I personally can do a lot if given a set of brand guidelines (Colors, typographies, etc). I think I have an eye for when the UI isn't looking right, but I can't always get the UI to the right spot after noticing that unless i have some go-bys made by a designer. I really enjoy working through UX and wireframing. It's my belief that the best UX is made from a partnership of Design and Engineering, but I can get by and make pretty solid UXs by myself. At the end of the day, you should probably be spending resources according to the priorities of the business. So if you're making like a productivity app or something B2C which has the UI/UX central to the business's success - get a designer who you REALLY trust asap. If you're a service business creating internal tools to manage data and schedules, you may be able to cut corners and make do with someone like me who can get you 70+% of the way there on UI/UX but who ensures all the functionality is solid. Sorry for the essay, it got me thinking too xD
can you set a spending limit on vercel's pro plan or do you only get a spend limit alert? what do you do if you go over that limit? I'm really pushed away by vercel because of the serverless computing (extremely high bill in case of website exploding with users) but it seems a lot of modern web hosting platforms are using it...
@avgJoe123 I've used vercel on a number of projects, none of them have crazy scale though so they haven't blown up on costs for me. I just pay $30/month ($20 for the pro plan and another $10 for log related stuff, and this is for all my projects combined). You can set spending limits so that it protects you from big paychecks. I've heard horror stories from folks on cloudflare, but I seem to remember vercel being more understanding of these things. Thinking about it, i'd say it's in their best interest to give a break to someone who blows up and create a happy loyal customer (who's now at a higher premium into the future). I would consider it a good problem to have. If the website is exploding with users, I'd hope i'm also monetizing a decent amount of that traffic. It's also part of the reason why a lot of soloprenuer saas devs say to not give a free version, i think. Thanks for the comment! It got me to go and take a look in vercel's billing settings and set $1,000 as my max monthly spend for now. I doubt I'll hit it without blowing up, but I imagine it'll give me the space to stop and think when i do.
@@FoundingMyWay Thanks for the reply! I thought vercel only allows spending limit notifications and then you can either stop the hosting or expand your limit... What do you use for the backend? I was thinking of using Digital Oceans's Droplets, but I think there's a lot of work to be done to properly protect your droplet (reverse proxying, setting up the firewall...).
