What’s the first technical decision you lock in when starting a new SaaS product?
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For me, I feel like the hardest part isn't choosing between tools like React, Firebase, Railway, etc, it's really deciding which parts of the stack I should commit most of my time and tokens early and which ones may become painful to replace later.
Do you stick with a familiar stack and avoid overthinking it, design around expected scale from day one, let your coding agent influence the architecture, or start with the cheapest setup and migrate later? Also, curious which early technical choice has saved you the most time, and which one you wish you probably shouldn't have overthinked on.
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@maxitencent Honeslty, I've learned that the easiest thing to migrate is usually infrastucture , the hardest thing to change is a messy architecture. I try to keep the codebase clean, pick tools my team knows well, and let actual usage drive the big decisions.
I always lock in the data model first because changing it later touches every feature. Does anyone sketch future relationships before writing code or do you reshape everything as the product grows?
@maxitencent Have you ever picked a technology mainly because your team knew it well?
@maxitencent Do you optimize for speed or flexibility first?
@maxitencent Has choosing familiar tools saved you more than chasing new ones?
Looking back, have you found that the biggest long team decisions were actually about architecture and data models rather than the specific framework or hosting platform?
@maxitencent has keeping things boring ever turned out to be your best decision?
I prefer deciding deployment and database before fronted details because those choices stay longer. Have you ever regretted picking managed services too early or did they actually reduce maintenance enough to justify the cost later?
i focus on keeping services loosely connected from the beginning. swapping authenication or storage becomes much easier when everything depends on clean interfaces instead of direct integrations. That decision has paid off repeatedly.
Good organization makes debugging testing and onboarding much smoother. What folder structure has stayed reliable for your recent projects?