Ask HN: Companies of one, what is your tech stack?
You're going to love to hate this: Best choice I made was using WordPress!<p>I run <a href="https://rpgplayground.com" rel="nofollow">https://rpgplayground.com</a>, a web tool to make RPG games without coding (6000+ user published games) The app itself is written in Haxe. My website is WordPress.<p>Haxe because it will be easy to port to any device.<p>Why was WordPress the best choice? Basically everything you need has a plugin.<p>I needed a forum: bbPress<p>I needed a community where my members post updates: BuddyPress<p>I need to send out a newsletter, and most Saas options are crazy expensive: plugin mailster.co, 1 time payment. (Using critsend.com)<p>Needed some faq page with search, needed a captcha for registering, experimented with ads, post updates to discord, user reporting system, ... You name it, there is a plugin for that.<p>I also have an external person who writes my newsletters, but isn't allowed push the "publish" button. All thanks to the user roles functionality.<p>Of course I needed my own plugin to integrate my app and show shared games. I could have written that myself, but then I would lose out on time developing my tool. So I was able to hire a cheap php WordPress developer who made my custom plugin. Went great!<p>WordPress is so crazy powerfull, that if you want to create some community website, it offers everything you need.<p>I know my experience is not what many of you would expect, so therefore thought it was interesting to share it with you.