I just posted to the early adopter Hacker News Show forum to soft release LymeStack to a small community: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41458495
I'd love to hear your thoughts about my messaging, my pricing or any other feedback you'd like to offer! I have to pass a small threshold of activity in order to appear on the main HackerNews Show Page, so any legit conversation or feedback on the provided link is more than welcome!
Below is the text I drafted prior to removing some extra wording to comply with the 4000 character post limit.
TL;DR; - Angular + .NET Core WebApp Template with Full-featured Admin Area and CRUD / Report feature generation tools. Get a responsive web application w/ database integration, authentication and a full-featured admin area up and running on your local machine with a searchable, sortable and exportable CRUD feature in minutes.
Website: https://www.lymestack.com/get-started Intended Audiences:
Hi, I’m Mike and I’m an Angular + .NET freelance developer with about 25 years in the web-app development business. Over the years, I’ve built myself some crude console applications that automate a lot of the boring and time consuming parts of my job: getting new apps started and developing CRUD admin features. These tools have allowed me to remain competitive with larger web development firms because I can provide my clients with more affordable web applications faster and cheaper than they thought possible. I thought that if these tools are saving me so much time, then they’ve got to be of use to others as well. That’s why I decided to refine my tools for the public by building LymeStack.
LymeStack consists of two main components that save me time almost every day:
LymeStack comes with a standard web application template that allows a developer to scaffold a new app in just minutes for a new client or project. This web app starter template comes with a stable, feature-rich admin area prebuilt, allowing your client’s administrators to have a large degree of control and transparency in their web application out-of-box. This ability for your clients to self-service common tasks reduces interruptions in your work day by substantially decreasing support emails and phone calls.
The template and admin area are filled with lots of goodies that would normally need to be built from scratch: user management / role assignment, SSO authentication, audit-logging, error logging, app health checks… the list goes on. All of these features combined would take a single experienced developer at least a month to build. LymeStack offers exponentially more than any other half-stack (front-end only) template or starter tutorial that I’ve come across so far and serves as a solid starting point, enabling developers to get to work right away on their client’s core concerns.
This template is accompanied by a “Scaffold Feature” tool that automates much of the time-consuming, error-prone, tedious work involved when creating CRUD admin features and reports. The tool will generate standard Angular and C# code from existing database tables or stored procedure output, making it useful for both new feature development and system modernization projects. In fact, many of the LymeStack tools originated specifically to help modernize an old Crystal Reports / ASP Classic system and have since gone on to help modernize other legacy .NET Framework applications.
On average, 1000 lines of code (and around 30 different Angular / .NET C# files) are generated per each scaffold operation. This number can increase significantly depending on the number of fields that exist in the table that you’re working with. Imagine how long it would take to write that amount of code from scratch. The increase in productivity is significant!
These tools generate standard open source code (not proprietary to LymeStack) that any Angular or .NET developer should feel comfortable customizing using standard free tools such as Visual Studio Code. LymeStack focuses on readability and code consistency to make more maintainable applications that can be supported by more than just one developer. Additionally, licenses on any code generated from commercial or community licenses are perpetual, allowing you to continue using the web application as you please without being beholden to a subscription after you are through with using the tools.
LymeStack is free to try for 30 days. Check out my website at https://www.lymestack.com to get started.
You will see a security warning in your web browser when trying to download and from Windows Defender when trying to install the program. Per this Reddit thread, I’m working through this.
If you are skeptical and would still like to evaluate the software, I recommend you use a virtual machine or Windows Sandbox to try it out.