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Hi Matt, there's always something to enjoy in a good rant. I've never built an app on top of Firebase but it's a little sad you encountered all those outages.

I agree that building an app following trends is a little risky. Most web apps just need a solid relational DB as a start and PostgreSQL is a great choice.

Go seems the right choice for what you need.

I like the idea of developing on a sub-par computer to keep a big focus on performance. Mine's quite newer but I definitely hear the turbines running (the fans) every time I start webpack with Ruby.

The computer is always silent when I switch to Go.

I had to learn/refresh makefile skills too eheh. Regarding your handling of static files, you might want to add minimization and maybe a CDN in the future.

Thanks, I enjoyed reading this