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Discussion on: Introducing Yokie - A Recipe Sharing Social Media WebApp

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Pato

Congrats on your project! Out of curiosity, why did you decide to use Firestore and Algolia? Great tools tho, I'm asking because they can't get expensive fast.

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mmmrks

Did you have some alternatives in mind? What would you use?

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Pato

firestore is awesome and easy to setup! but i would have probably done it with MongoDB atlas BUT doing the backend setup etc takes time which is def a down side

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Jason

Mostly because of how fast it is to integrate, since I have experience with both in the past, it was very easy to setup quickly without looking at any documentation.

Regarding the price, I find firestore's free tier to be more than enough for most side projects, same with algolia free tier

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Pato

yeah I agree you can get a fullstack web app working in now time!! keep killing it