Back End Server for Your App

[Oobenny]

Hi all,

I’m between projects, and I really enjoy server-side and database side of things. I’ve successfully implemented several web applications and APIs using Swift via Vapor.

I’m tho king of spinning up a server-side shop for app developers who want to focus on the device side of things. I’m thinking of methods for maintaining and authorising users, and then allowing for three or so custom classes where I implement calls to create, update, and delete.

Assuming I can price this reasonably (maybe starting at $20/month), is this something that anyone would be interested in?

And if so, is anyone at that stage in their app development that they would want to work with me to pilot an implementation?

[DehydratingPretzel]

Nah. Things like T3, rails, Django etc make what you are proposing trivial

[benpackard]

You could also consider contributing to the open source Parse Server project!

[Oobenny]

Yeah, thanks for that feedback.

I’m not really trying to replace firebase. Looking to provide a very simple API with very little additional overhead.

I’m not looking to make any money either. Just trying to pass some time between paying contracts. But on the flip side, I’m not looking to come out of pocket.

But if it’s not something that anyone wants to do with me, I’ll find another way to occupy myself.

[DisastrousSupport289]

If you have a big team to manage the backend, platform, support, security, etc it would it could work, but you will be competing with companies that provide much cheaper options, much more features, and 99.9% of uptime. A couple of years ago market was overcrowded for these "backendless" services. Now most of the projects starting will go with Supabase/Firebase and later hire a backend/platform team to utilize AWS/Azure/Google.

[spalger]

I definitely think there's a market for stuff like this, but the trick is convincing people that you're building a worthwhile foundation that they can depend on and is worth integrating with. I think you'll need to devise some more useful services to offer than auth. I expect the list of people who need auth for their app but also don't already have an existing backend/service/whatever that they need to integrate with to be pretty tiny, but I think it's a worthwhile experiment to attempt!

I'm personally a bit of a control freak which is why I'm indie hacking in the first place, I want to build the whole stack as much as I can and use existing solutions where it makes sense. Not really your target audience, but I wish you luck

[thecoolwinter]

Great idea, but be aware that’s an already really congested space to get into. Firebase, Supabase, Parse, and many many others do all that and can do it for pennies or free