>Telegram group chats are technically open to moderation, yet the company has done nothing to put any kind of moderation in place.
This is not even remotely true. I have reported content many times and when I come back to check it, it's gone. This includes account of spammers, some sellers (or pretending to be) of illegal goods, etc.
Hey! I built SlimSaaS. The motivation is not necessarily the bloat that comes with the frameworks themselves. Yes, I know Django is "heavy" in that sense :).
The motivation stemmed from the massive amount of unnecessary features boilerplates add only to justify their value. 18 different Dev Ops tools, CMSs, AI integrations, etc... all result in us having to delete tons of code (or worse, spend time configuring it all). On top of that, you end up with $300/month in server fees just to test out your product market fit.
More features != more value, especially with something that's intended to get you up and running in a few days. When I built SlimSaaS, I focused on the thing that 90% of startups will need. And from there, prioritized optimizing and tuning the few things that matter a lot. Performance of the landing pages, keywords/SEO headings, the user experience of the auth and payment flows, and developer experience: automatic SSL deployments, extensible, creating a new project shouldn't take hours. The goal is to remove as much friction to starting a company as possible so that you can test PMF and fail fast if needed.
