Popping back in the thread to say "thank you" to everyone who contributed so far - this has given me a lot to research and think about.
From a product management perspective, Laravel is tempting - I certainly get that it could seem bloated, but some of that seems quite useful for getting to MVP quickly - the user auth and billing especially.
I'm considering Postgres / Laravel / Bootstrap (already have a clickable HTML prototype underway) to be replaced by Angular post-MVP, but I'll probably noodle on that last bit some more when the time comes to make that call.
From a product management perspective, Laravel is tempting - I certainly get that it could seem bloated, but some of that seems quite useful for getting to MVP quickly - the user auth and billing especially.
I'm considering Postgres / Laravel / Bootstrap (already have a clickable HTML prototype underway) to be replaced by Angular post-MVP, but I'll probably noodle on that last bit some more when the time comes to make that call.