Tell me about your project in 5 questions. I'll recommend the exact technologies with honest trade-offs, no jargon.
Your answer shapes the entire stack recommendation.
Over-engineering for 100 users wastes budget. Under-building for 100k breaks things.
Budget determines which technologies are realistic to implement and maintain.
Speed-to-market favors different stacks than long-term maintainability.
Maintenance complexity varies hugely by stack. This matters for long-term cost.
A microservices architecture makes sense at 500k users/month. For your first 1k users, a monolith ships faster and costs less to maintain.
Supabase, Vercel, Railway: managed platforms cost slightly more but save 80% of DevOps time. That time is better spent building product.
Python/Flask, React, PostgreSQL, and Stripe have been battle-tested for a decade. New frameworks are exciting, proven ones are predictable.
A non-technical team maintaining a Next.js + Prisma codebase is a liability. If your team can't update it, pick a simpler path.
Yes, but migrations are expensive. Picking the right foundation early is far cheaper than rewriting at scale. If you're unsure, choose a stack that's easier to grow into (e.g. Python backend, managed Postgres) rather than one that requires migration later.
For content-heavy sites managed by non-technical teams, yes. WordPress powers 43% of the web for a reason. For custom web apps, SaaS, or anything with complex logic, it becomes a liability quickly.
Python (Flask) for the backend, Supabase for the database, Tailwind CSS + vanilla JS for the frontend, deployed on Vercel. Stripe for payments and Cloudinary for media. It's fast, maintainable, and cost-effective for most client project sizes.
Bring your stack recommendation to a discovery call and we'll scope the project with exact technology decisions, no guesswork.