Overview

SMASH_THE_BUTTON is a website that allows you to smash the living daylights out of a button and see a satisfying counter increase.

• You: Boop
• It: ++

I built it as an experiment in building simple, reliable, and performant real-world services in a functional programming paradigm using fsharp.

How it was built

I built SMASH_THE_BUTTON in a mostly FP style. Its general architecture intentionally resembles CloudSeed as I'm considering migrating it to fsharp and it's the most efficient software architecture I've found for most things.

• Frontend - Svelte / SvelteKit
• Backend - Fsharp / Dotnet
  • Web framework - Giraffe
  • DB ORM - Dapper, Postgres
• DB - Postgres
• Hosting: Google Cloud - Cloud Run containers + Hosted Postgres

Further Reading:

• Building a Fullstack Web App with SvelteKit and F#
• Hosting full stack apps on Google Cloud for less than $10 / month
• $10 / month Managed Postgres Database on Google Cloud

Other Notes

• Naming - I originally wanted to call it PushTheButton but all the domains were being parked and sold for >$10k and HAMY LABS is too #poor for that so I opted for the $2 smash url