Brad

We use Sourcetree because it is free and easy to use.

SES has native Laravel integration, was easy to set up and there's a large free quota. For simply sending emails, it was an obvious choice as we already use the AWS ecosystem for other parts of the Whyp project.

Postman makes building and testing APIs really easy. The free cloud storage makes it easy to share collections with other developers.

Storybook makes component design and development a pleasure.

The Whyp transcoders are written in C# for reliabilty, speed and ease of distribution. C# is a beautiful language but slower to develop with than other languages/frameworks which is why we don't use it for the API yet.

AWS RDS was an obvious choice as a reliable and replicated cloud database solution.

Laravel is the best PHP framework ever. The helpful community, useful ecosystem and excellent documentation make it a pleasure to learn and use.

Vue.js is a great frontend framework for beginners and has excellent documentation and performance. It was an obvious choice when first building Whyp.

We use S3 to store user data as it's reliable, failsafe and affordable. It's also part of the AWS ecosystem that we are already using for other parts of the project.

VSCode is a great IDE for Vue.js development. It's free, fast, easy to extend and customise, and has settings sync built in which is useful for those of us who often change machines while working.