Ask HN: Can I realistically make an app as a junior dev?

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I m trying to make an app to help out my local community, but with the intention of scaling it at some point and serving a much wider community. It s a complex app with a lot of moving parts, and as a junior dev with little experience in some of the technologies I m using, I m going to be relying heavily on Claude. However, I know generally, Claude is only as strong as the developer using it—and I m a junior dev. So, for example, what do I do about architecture? I can t leave the architecture up to Claude, but I m not at the point in my career where I can design the architecture on my own without flaws.What are y all s thoughts on what I can learn on my own through posts/YouTube videos, vs. what I might need to hire a senior dev to help me do?I ve had this idea for a while, with the thought that I d make it when I m a more experienced software engineer, but there s no time like the present and I just want to bite the bullet and get started, even if it means I ll be making more mistakes and learning on the job.For reference, the stack I m leaning toward is PostreSQL (I don t have experience with this), Java Spring Boot (I m pretty experienced with this), Typescript with Angular (pretty experienced), and some python (some experience). There s more stuff, like Redis (no experience) and maybe Django (no experience).Anyway...any help/advice on how to do this properly would be really helpful. Part of the idea of this project is just to learn, even if it means I learn a couple of months in that I have to start everything over from scratch, lol.

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