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anthonynsimon.com
Personal blog · anthonynsimon.com/blogprogrammingsystems
anthonynsimon.com is a personal blog at anthonynsimon.com about programming and systems. Since 2021, 19 different Hacker News readers have linked it 26 times, most often “The architecture behind a one-person tech startup”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for its write-up of the tools and architecture behind a one-person company, including a hardware business and a Django app on Kubernetes. Comments mostly cite it as a reference for solo-developer setups.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Hey - I'm Anthony. I bootstrap products and share what I learn here.
Most-linked posts?
- The architecture behind a one-person tech startup9 people · 10 mentions · first linked 2021-04-08
- Building a bare-metal Kubernetes cluster on Raspberry Pi5 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2021-05-19
- Deploying Django with Kamal (2023)3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2023-09-11
- 1-Node ClickHouse in Production3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-08-21
What Hacker News says?
ah the solo dev tech stack! a very popular category, but this is the first one that is hardware focused. software ones i have collected: - https://draculatheme.com/pro/journey - https://www.indiehackers.com/post/launched-my-first-course-e... - https://panelbear.com/blog/tech-stack/ - https://jake.nyc/words/tools-and-services-i-use-to-run-my-sa... - https://www.listennotes.com/blog/the-boring-technology-behin... - ht…
Comment linking /blog/one-man-saas-architecture/
on “The tools and tech I use to run a one-woman hardware company”Submitted The architecture behind a one-person tech startup as a story · 1330 points
HN discussionI replicated Anthony Simon's architecture [0] in a few days and it has worked beautifully so far with a toy project [1]. Probably overkill for OP, but the combination of GH Actions & Flux [2] means that starting (and killing) namespaced projects – with all the cluster benefits of automatic TLS certification, DNS record management, rate limiting, pod restarts, logging, autoscaling, CD, etc. – is a single push to a gi…
Comment linking /blog/one-man-saas-architecture/
on “Ask HN: Solo-preneurs, how do you DevOps to save time?”Submitted The Architecture Behind a One-Person Tech Startup (2021) as a story · 234 points
HN discussionHey I'm the author of the post. We ran Panelbear for about a year before merging it into Cronitor's codebase. Cronitor is also a Django monolith but on EC2 and was already humming along nicely for several years through frequent traffic spikes. We had no reliability issues with K8s, but came down to: as a small team we decided to have less moving parts. The new setup is not too different from what I describe here: ht…
Comment linking /blog/kamal-deploy/
on “The Architecture Behind a One-Person Tech Startup (2021)”Submitted Building a bare-metal Kubernetes cluster on Raspberry Pi as a story · 106 points
HN discussionSubmitted Stuff I would tell my younger self as a story · 16 points
HN discussionSubmitted 1-Node ClickHouse in Production as a story · 13 points
HN discussionSubmitted Deploy ClickHouse to Production: 1-Node Approach as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted 1-Node ClickHouse in Production (2022) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Deploying Django with Kamal (2023) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building a bare-metal Kubernetes cluster on Raspberry Pi as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why I Run Django on Kubernetes as a One-Man SaaS as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Architecture Behind a One-Person Tech Startup (21) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building a bare-metal Kubernetes cluster on Raspberry Pi as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted DIY Kubernetes Cluster with Raspberry Pi as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Architecture Behind A One-Person Tech Startup as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Architecture Behind a One-Person Tech Startup as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Architecture Behind a One-Person Tech Startup as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Deploying Django with Kamal (Mrsk) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Architecture Behind a One-Person Tech Startup as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Architecture Behind a One-Person Tech Startup as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building a bare-metal Kubernetes cluster on Raspberry Pi as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Deploying Django with Kamal (mrsk) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Architecture Behind a One-Person Tech Startup as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: Building a tiny Kubernetes cluster on Raspberry Pi as a story · 1 points
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