Ask HN: What to Choose for a side project? Vue, React, Angular?
An open Ask HN community consultation from 2019 where @groomed convened hundreds of developers and bootstrappers to share real experiences, hard numbers, and tactics.
Core Principles for Independent Builders:
Participants share raw revenue figures, churn rates, and stack decisions that corporate PR never publishes.
Recurring answers reveal that distribution, not coding skill, is almost universally the rate-limiting step in developer businesses.
Practical recommendations on bookkeeping, payment gateways (Stripe vs Paddle), and freelance-to-product transitions.
Community Debate Themes:
Hundreds of active indie hackers contributed case studies, pricing heuristics, and pitfalls to avoid when moonlighting on side projects.
CATEGORY Ask HN Roundtables →
HISTORICAL ERA Cloud & Mobile Era (2014–2019)
COMMUNITY SCORE ★ 8 points
TOTAL DISCUSSIONS 5 comments
If your goal is to just make something, choose the one with the best documentation and community.
If your goal is to boost your skills and resume, pick the one with the most entrenched legacy code.
Choose the one you can learn the fastest and be most productive. This is a flame war waiting to happen.
React, it works well with Typescript and hooks are interesting to work with.