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},
{
id:"data-platform", emoji:"📊", name:"The Data Platform",
desc:"Built for heavy data processing, dashboards, and analytics.",
team:"3\u20136 devs", cost:"$200\u2013$1k/mo",
tags:["enterprise","small"],
budget:"Medium / High", complexity:"High",
layers: {
frontend: ["Next.js","Tailwind","Tremor / Recharts"],
backend: ["FastAPI","Celery"],
database: ["Postgres","ClickHouse","Redis"],
auth: ["Auth0"],
hosting: ["GCP Cloud Run","BigQuery"],
extras: ["Grafana","dbt","Airflow"],
},
why:"FastAPI serves dashboards and APIs with high throughput. Celery handles heavy background data processing. ClickHouse is purpose-built for analytical queries on billions of rows. dbt transforms raw data into clean models. Airflow orchestrates complex data pipelines. Tremor/Recharts make beautiful dashboards.",
watchOut:"ClickHouse requires operational expertise. Airflow can be painful to maintain \u2014 consider managed alternatives like Astronomer. Data pipeline debugging is hard. Start with Postgres for everything, add ClickHouse only when query performance demands it."
},
{
id:"open-source-stack", emoji:"🌍", name:"The Open Source Stack",
desc:"100% open source, self-hosted, no vendor lock-in, privacy-first.",
team:"Any size", cost:"$0\u2013$100/mo",
tags:["solo","small"],
budget:"Free / Low", complexity:"Medium",
layers: {
frontend: ["SvelteKit or Nuxt","Tailwind"],
backend: ["PocketBase or Supabase (self-hosted)"],
database: ["Postgres or SQLite"],
auth: ["Better Auth / Lucia"],
hosting: ["Coolify on Hetzner"],
extras: ["Plausible (self-hosted)","Grafana","Uptime Kuma"],
},
why:"Every single piece is open source and self-hostable. No vendor lock-in, no surprise pricing, full data sovereignty. PocketBase is a single binary that handles auth + DB + file storage. Coolify automates deployments on your own server. Plausible gives you privacy-friendly analytics. Perfect for EU/GDPR-sensitive projects.",
watchOut:"Self-hosting means you own uptime, backups, and security. PocketBase is single-node only. Supabase self-hosted requires more setup than the managed version. Budget time for infrastructure maintenance."
},
];
/* ================= RENDER FILTERS ================= */
const filterBar = document.getElementById('filterBar');
const searchInput = document.getElementById('search');
const grid = document.getElementById('grid');
const matchCount = document.getElementById('matchCount');
let activeFilter = 'all';
FILTERS.forEach(f => {
const btn = document.createElement('button');
btn.className = 'filter-btn px-3 py-1.5 rounded-full border border-slate-300 bg-white text-slate-600 hover:bg-slate-100 transition cursor-pointer font-medium' + (f.id === 'all' ? ' active' : '');
btn.textContent = f.label;
btn.dataset.filter = f.id;
btn.addEventListener('click', () => {
document.querySelectorAll('.filter-btn').forEach(b => b.classList.remove('active'));
btn.classList.add('active');
activeFilter = f.id;
applyFilters();
});
filterBar.appendChild(btn);
});
/* ================= RENDER CARDS ================= */
function renderLayerChips(layers) {
const layerMeta = {
frontend: { label:'Frontend', cls:'layer-frontend' },
backend: { label:'Backend', cls:'layer-backend' },
database: { label:'Database', cls:'layer-database' },
auth: { label:'Auth', cls:'layer-auth' },
hosting: { label:'Hosting', cls:'layer-hosting' },
extras: { label:'Extras', cls:'layer-extras' },
};
let html = '';
for (const [key, techs] of Object.entries(layers)) {
const meta = layerMeta[key];
html += `<div class="flex items-start gap-2 mb-2">
<span class="text-[11px] font-semibold text-slate-500 uppercase tracking-wider w-16 shrink-0 pt-0.5">${meta.label}</span>
<div class="flex flex-wrap gap-1.5">
${techs.map(t => `<span class="tech-chip ${meta.cls}">${t}</span>`).join('')}
</div>
</div>`;
}
return html;
}
function renderCards() {
grid.innerHTML = COMBOS.map(c => `
<article class="combo-card visible-card rounded-2xl border border-slate-200 bg-white shadow-sm overflow-hidden flex flex-col" data-id="${c.id}" data-tags="${c.tags.join(',')}" data-search="${(c.name + ' ' + c.desc + ' ' + Object.values(c.layers).flat().join(' ')).toLowerCase()}">
<!-- Header -->
<div class="px-5 pt-5 pb-3 border-b border-slate-100 bg-gradient-to-r from-amber-50/60 to-orange-50/40">
<div class="flex items-start justify-between gap-2">
<div>
<h3 class="text-lg font-bold text-slate-900">${c.emoji} ${c.name}</h3>
<p class="text-sm text-slate-600 mt-0.5">${c.desc}</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="flex items-center gap-3 mt-3 text-xs">
<span class="inline-flex items-center gap-1 px-2 py-0.5 rounded-full bg-slate-100 text-slate-700 font-medium">
<svg class="w-3 h-3" fill="none" viewBox="0 0 24 24" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2"><path d="M17 21v-2a4 4 0 00-4-4H5a4 4 0 00-4 4v2"/><circle cx="9" cy="7" r="4"/><path d="M23 21v-2a4 4 0 00-3-3.87"/><path d="M16 3.13a4 4 0 010 7.75"/></svg>
${c.team}
</span>
<span class="inline-flex items-center gap-1 px-2 py-0.5 rounded-full bg-emerald-50 text-emerald-700 font-medium">
<svg class="w-3 h-3" fill="none" viewBox="0 0 24 24" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2"><path d="M12 1v22M17 5H9.5a3.5 3.5 0 000 7h5a3.5 3.5 0 010 7H6"/></svg>
${c.cost}
</span>
</div>
</div>
<!-- Stack Layers -->
<div class="px-5 py-4 flex-1">
${renderLayerChips(c.layers)}
</div>
<!-- Why & Warning -->
<div class="px-5 pb-4 space-y-3">
<div class="rounded-lg bg-emerald-50 border border-emerald-200 px-3 py-2.5">
<div class="text-[11px] font-bold text-emerald-700 uppercase tracking-wider mb-1">Why this works</div>
<p class="text-xs text-emerald-900 leading-relaxed">${c.why}</p>
</div>
<div class="rounded-lg bg-amber-50 border border-amber-200 px-3 py-2.5">
<div class="text-[11px] font-bold text-amber-700 uppercase tracking-wider mb-1">Watch out for</div>
<p class="text-xs text-amber-900 leading-relaxed">${c.watchOut}</p>
</div>
</div>
<!-- Tags -->
<div class="px-5 py-3 border-t border-slate-100 bg-slate-50/50 flex flex-wrap gap-1.5">
<span class="text-[10px] px-2 py-0.5 rounded-full bg-slate-200 text-slate-600 font-medium">${c.budget}</span>
<span class="text-[10px] px-2 py-0.5 rounded-full bg-slate-200 text-slate-600 font-medium">${c.team}</span>
<span class="text-[10px] px-2 py-0.5 rounded-full bg-slate-200 text-slate-600 font-medium">${c.complexity} complexity</span>
</div>
</article>
`).join('');
}
renderCards();
/* ================= FILTERING ================= */
function applyFilters() {
const query = searchInput.value.toLowerCase().trim();
let visible = 0;
document.querySelectorAll('.combo-card').forEach(card => {
const tags = card.dataset.tags;
const searchText = card.dataset.search;
const matchesFilter = activeFilter === 'all' || tags.includes(activeFilter);
const matchesSearch = !query || searchText.includes(query);
if (matchesFilter && matchesSearch) {
card.classList.remove('hidden-card');
card.classList.add('visible-card');
card.style.animationDelay = (visible * 0.05) + 's';
visible++;
} else {
card.classList.add('hidden-card');
card.classList.remove('visible-card');
}
});
matchCount.textContent = visible + ' combo' + (visible !== 1 ? 's' : '');
}
searchInput.addEventListener('input', applyFilters);
/* ================= KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS ================= */
document.addEventListener('keydown', e => {
if (e.key === '/' && document.activeElement !== searchInput) {
e.preventDefault();
searchInput.focus();
}
if (e.key === 'Escape') {
searchInput.value = '';
searchInput.blur();
activeFilter = 'all';
document.querySelectorAll('.filter-btn').forEach(b => b.classList.remove('active'));
document.querySelector('.filter-btn[data-filter="all"]').classList.add('active');
applyFilters();
}
});
</script>
</body>
</html>