For an MVP the most important thing is to get the product ready, have early feedback and then iterate based on the response.

After my extensive framework shopping of PHP/Laravel, Phoenix, Supabase, Directus, Kotlin+SpringBoot, I settled for Django+HTMX+AlpineJS for my side project. I could create a working MVP in a week and within 1 month I had most features up and running.

I plan to host it on Oracle cloud (free tier) and have not seen any issues with it so far in the test runs.