No way are you doomed. I don't remember who it was, but a wise person on this forum posted the phrase "there is no one path" in response to another post like th

No way are you doomed. I don't remember who it was, but a wise person on this forum posted the phrase "there is no one path" in response to another post like this. However you may have to play to your strengths... if your Web application is doing something deeply technical, and you need deep knowledge of algorithms/data structures to make critical feature-level decisions, you're probably at a disadvantage. But if your product isn't too algorithmically flavored, and a lot of the work involves coming up with the right features for an end-user application (business software, greeting card maker, productivity suite, etc.), you can definitely kick some ass, if you have great knowledge of your target users. Last thought: make sure you completely trust your dev team, or do a thorough job with verifying the quality of their code.