I agree that dealing with the front-end can be a drain sometimes, but unfortunately it's necessary for many types of MVPs that require a rich UI.

Do you have any such MVPs or projects you could share?

https://github.com/adnanh/rye - simple url-catcher on our slack channel (live at http://rye.hajdarevic.net/) (Using slack outgoing webhooks + https://github.com/adnanh/webhook for catching the webhook and running a simple shell script that parses the slack message and extracts all URLs and then hits rye with curl to store and crawl them)

https://github.com/adnanh/mikro - my personal micro blog that I mainly use to store interesting links (live at http://blog.hajdarevic.net/)

I'm currently working with a friend of mine on an MVP that we plan to offer as a service, and the source code is not open, but the stack is: React (JSX + ES6 + Webpack) + Tachyons for frontend, Ruby (Grape + Sequel) for frontend API, Golang for workers and processing, PostgreSQL as a DB and Redis for caching

Do you use any front-end libraries for your web projects?

I don't use front-end lib that much.

I usually purchase a template from themeforest. I care more about the design, whatever the theme I purchase use, I just modify it from there.

Thanks for your answer.

I'm curious about what kind of projects you do with a C++ web server. Could you talk a bit about them?

The C++ server itself was my side project. I made it long time ago. I tried to create a blog with it.

https://github.com/shi-yan/Swiftly

Right now, I'm making a deep learning library. I want to create some simple dashboard ui for it.

I investigated few options. I don't like go. I know some node.js. I really wanted to use swift. But the swift framework, called perfect, crahes on my mac. So I decided to use my own framework. It integrates well with my deep learning library.

Thanks for your answer.

Is there anything you missed from Rails when you did your project based on Elixir/Phoenix?

What are you using on the front-end for both projects? Do you currently have a go-to front-end framework/library?

Email This looks great. What are your plans (if any) to monetize it?

One thing I missed was that the availability of packages for common things like oauth, payment gateway integration etc. In the Rails world we are spoilt for choice when it comes to gems and libraries.

But I think this will improve as the adoption of Elixir increases.

I don't have a go to frontend library. I have worked with React and Vue.J's before and if I have to choose one for another project, I'd probably go with Vue.

I am thinking of running Email This on a pay-what-you-want model, but I am not too sure about it though. First priority is to get people to use it and see if they find value in it.

Cool. Thanks again for your answers.

Best of luck with your projects!

There's nothing I can't do with it. I'm just considering learning something new.

Please email me at: hi [at] leandro [dot] me. Thanks!

Sweet! What's the best way to contact you?

Im kinda shy writing my email here. Could I maybe contact you instead?

Please email me at: hi [at] leandro [dot] me

That would be awesome :) How do I contact you?

Can I contact you? A bit hesitant about putting my email here.

You can email me at: hi [at] leandro [dot] me

Would you be willing to share some of those ideas? I can contact you privately if you prefer.

you haven't mentioned anything from your background, most of them are app based. you can find my email on my profile

Thank you! If you have any personal experience on this, I'd love to hear it.

Thanks for the ideas!