BetterStart

BetterStart is a lightweight startup management system designed specifically for small startups.
It is offered as a SaaS product and provides a set of tools to streamline core startup operations.

✨ Key Features

1. Project Management – Manage projects, tasks, and workflows with ease.
2. HR Management with AI-Driven CV Evaluation – Automate CV screening and improve hiring efficiency.
3. Legal GPT – AI-powered generation of legal documents contextualized for Bangladeshi laws.

🏗 Architecture

BetterStart is built on a microservices architecture for scalability and maintainability.

🚀 Installation

1. Provision Infrastructure

   • Create a private AWS S3 bucket with proper ACL, CORS policy, and encryption using the AWS Management Console.
     OR
   • Use Terraform for automated provisioning (recommended):

     cd terraform/envs/dev
     terraform init
     terraform plan
     terraform apply --auto-approve

   This will automatically configure:
   ✅ S3 bucket with CORS, Lifecycle Policies, and SSE-KMS encryption.

2. Configure Environment Variables

   • Navigate to the project root.
   • For each service (backend, frontend, worker), copy .env.example to .env and update values.
   • Ensure S3 bucket name is correctly set in the backend .env file.

3. Run Services with Docker

   docker compose up --build -d

   This starts:
   ✅ Backend API
   ✅ Frontend Web App
   ✅ RabbitMQ Message Broker
   ✅ RabbitMQ Worker

4. Access URLs

   • Frontend: http://localhost:3000
   • Backend API Docs: http://localhost:8000/docs
   • RabbitMQ Management UI: http://localhost:15672

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💪 Strengths

• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with Terraform

  • Automates provisioning of S3 bucket policies, CORS rules, Lifecycle management, and SSE-KMS encryption with key rotation.
  • Improves consistency, repeatability, and security of infrastructure.

• Microservices Architecture

  • Highly scalable, modular, and maintainable design.
  • Services (Backend, Frontend, Workers, Messaging) are decoupled, enabling independent deployment and scaling.

• Secure by Design

  • Enforces S3 bucket encryption using AWS KMS.
  • Private bucket with restricted ACL for better data protection.

• Cloud-Native & Containerized

  • Uses Docker for reproducible environments across development and production.
  • Supports horizontal scaling and easy orchestration.

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⚙️ Full Deployment (Coming Soon)

We are working on a complete deployment setup using Terraform and Ansible to automate the entire infrastructure and application deployment process.

This will include:

• Provisioning all required cloud resources.
• Configuring services and dependencies automatically.
• End-to-end deployment of frontend, backend, and workers.