May 2024
Building the software that makes software
Overview
The proposed data structure encompasses essential aspects such as user management, content creation, interaction mechanisms, and analytics. Through a case study of Hacker News, we showcase the practical application of this modeling approach and discuss its benefits in terms of code organization, type safety, and extensibility. This white paper serves as a valuable resource for developers and architects seeking to design and implement SaaS products using TypeScript.
Overview
The proposed data structure encompasses essential aspects such as user management, content creation, interaction mechanisms, and analytics. Through a case study of Hacker News, we showcase the practical application of this modeling approach and discuss its benefits in terms of code organization, type safety, and extensibility.
Overview of core ideas
- Compressing abstractions allows us, as an industry, to spend more time building the core technologies that actually move the needle, and less time re-building solved problems for different environments/runtimes.
- What LLMs unlock for a product like this (compressing complex configuration to human-like preferences)
- Dropping into code when necessary (and how to accomplish this with the consolidation of front-end libraries + backend hosting services like AWS Lambda)
- “The new way to build your MVP in a way that supports launching your business to $10m/arr and beyond”
Where are the platforms that support building everything you need to get your business to the 10m/arr point? Those are the businesses we want to focus on.
The data structuring, validation, and storage is a big element.
The questions each section should answer:
- What is this
- Why does it need to exist
- How (could/will) this work
- What’s next