# SolidStart

5 Hacker News commenters recommended SolidStart and 1 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 4 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** People recommend it as a modern framework that is easy to host anywhere, with an elegant approach to async and error handling. One critic says it was placed into maintenance mode.

## Why people recommend it

- Modern framework for moving projects forward (2 comments): "SolidStart 2.0 has a very important role of moving current projects into the future." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49291763)) "modern alternatives that are actually good like SvelteKit or SolidStart" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47153319))
- Recommended alongside SvelteKit (2 comments): "SvelteKit and SolidStart are the two I recommend, it's easy to host anywhere" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47144206)) "modern alternatives that are actually good like SvelteKit or SolidStart" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47153319))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Ruby on Rails](https://hackerapproved.com/p/ruby-on-rails.md): 337 recommend
- [Django](https://hackerapproved.com/p/django.md): 277 recommend
- [Next.js](https://hackerapproved.com/p/next-js.md): 127 recommend
- [Phoenix Framework](https://hackerapproved.com/p/phoenix.md): 85 recommend
- [Laravel](https://hackerapproved.com/p/laravel.md): 71 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "SolidStart", https://hackerapproved.com/p/solidstart/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).