I put together a one-day hackathon project with Next.js on Vercel and Supabase. Supabase is a “firebase alternative” that gives you auth and a Postgres database in a single package in like two clicks. You use row-level security to define what permissions a user ID has using Postgres policies. If you’re a front end weighted developer this is great because you can pretend “there is no backend”, although with Next you can still write server side code that bypasses the row level security. Now, there’s issues with Nextjs/Vercel like “how do I run a job queue?” (Seems like you need an EC2 box somewhere else) that are unsatisfying, but for 1-hour productivity I don’t think you can do better.