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How we are building Maxout

Yesterday evening, I shared a blog post where I describe how I try to build Maxout (together with my brother).

https://getmaxout.app/blog/building-maxout/

It's a pretty long one, and I try to share some insights and vision about this project. Sharing this here because maybe someone might find one or the other approach interesting.

This is what I'm covering in the article:

🎯 Goals
What is the project's goal? Some background that explains why I can try the approach I'm taking.

πŸ‘¨πŸΎβ€πŸ’» Team
A bit about my brother and me

✨ Feature prioritization
How we choose what features to work on next

πŸ“… No meetings
I hate meetings. At Maxout, we don't have any meetings, and I'm not going to introduce any.

⏰ No Deadlines
Why working from one deadline to another? Instead, we have one vision that we all share, and we do our best.

πŸ’΅ Budgets/Costs Management
How we run a project that has no revenue yet (and not too soon).

πŸ”§ Tools & Services
I tried to create a list of every tool that we use (pretty similar to what @lunchbag shared recently)


What do you think? Is there anything that you would like to know more about? I want to keep this blog-post up-to-date and add more information based on what you guys want to know!

on February 8, 2021
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    Congrats on this. Love the overall design. I know a B2C market is hard but it solves a problem for you and who knows it may become a solid hit in the end. I think the key is to stick with the idea, and iterate on UX without adding too much clutter. I have for a long time a similar desire and plan to build something also just for me, although with some different features then yours. May I ask what the tech stack is for Maxout? I'm thinking flutter may be a good option today, targeting: iOs, Android and Web...

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      Hey, the tech stack is pretty simple. The front-end is a Gatsby powered progressive web app. I would probably nowadays go for Next JS but back then, I was more comfortable with Gatsby. The back-end is something that my brother works on and he is building his API using Python and Flask.

      The front-end is deployed using Netlify, the back-end runs on Heroku instances and Mongo.

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        Impressive. Thanks for sharing!