#buildinpublic update:

Yeah having a serverless application AND a serverless db sounds great but then you realise you have two cold starts to deal with and god knows what else.

That response time.

Must fix this at some point.

#buildinpublic update #10:

Still going. Recently built an endpoint to store and retrieve user profile info split between Cognito and my application. Was a bit ugly because there are some profile attributes that have to be unique.

Getting there slowly.

#buildinpublic update #9:

First feature almost complete. I'm building out the API to be consumed by the react front end.

It's going well. One thing I'm finding tricky is getting dates in a not normal string format and then having to put them in date order for the response 🙃

#buildinpublic update #8:

Starting to finish off the back end functionality for one of the graphs. It'll be a dashboard heavy app so I'm going to take it one graph, then one page, at a time, trying to finish each feature end to end before moving on

This is nice

#buildinpublic #indiemaker

#buildinpublic update #7:

Confetti animation easter egg. That is all.

#bootstrapping #indiehacker

#buildinpublic update #6:

For every project I've done, I've used analytics software. GA, Hotjar, GTM, etc.

For this project, I'm not doing it. I care about privacy and wanna show it.

I'll use @SimpleAnalytic for website stats (which is anon), but that's it.

It'll be fine 👌

#buildinpublic update #5:

Mockups for the website...

Aside from that, I've been cleaning up the codebase because it is still really messy from when I was running EC2/SQLite. Need to change some basic bits on all the endpoints to account for the Aurora Data API. #indiehacker

#buildinpublic update #4:

Now I've gone serverless for this product, I just wanted to lay out why I switched to it.

1. Easy. Setting up an EC2 instance, provisioning capacity, ports etc is all extra work. It's simple, but I'd still rather not do it. It also means...

#buildinpublic update over the weekend:

Changed the architecture already 🙃 moved away from EC2 and SQLite to a serverless API and Amazon Aurora for the DB, so I never have to worry about scale and I can make use of the Aurora V1 data API.

Also made a start on the website

#buildinpublic update:

Working on authentication with Cognito. Because this app is using a react.js front end, it's client rendered vs server rendered so totally different to what I've built before.

So...

1/2

I'm #buildinginpublic starting today. Spinning up a brand new product to provide insight, tracking and analysis for track and field athletes' performance in the UK.

Pretty niche, but it's a big enough audience I think

#buildinpublic