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Davelnewton, appreciate your response. My experience is that if I ask 2 or more developers, I get the food fight that Anold and Maxx are having below. So if I p

Davelnewton, appreciate your response. My experience is that if I ask 2 or more developers, I get the food fight that Anold and Maxx are having below. So if I pick a developer out of the internet and he/she recommends "Atom" I know I need to avoid him/her. On the otherhand, if he/she says "React", I know at least 2 others have mentioned it. You suggest that I just talk to a developer and put myself in their hands. That's how I spent $600,000 on 3 Microsoft Gold developers who recommended .Net framework, and got me a desktop PC version in Windows 7, one month before Windows 8 debuted and wanted $100K more to either 1)make it compatible with Win8 or 2)rewrite a web version. I applied for YC S17 in hopes of getting the $100K to get my app rewritten and back on the market. I also hoped that YC would advise a reasonable programming approach and an appropriate developer who could make it happen, but I got rejected this time,and am out in the cold again until maybe next October. So I thought I would give HN a try - and you were nice enough to respond. Thanks! I would appreciate any further thoughts you would be willing to share.

davelnewton 9y ago
The tech race is unavoidable. Focusing on a web app buys you some more longevity. I'd say you got ripped off by your devs; it's not like nobody knew when Win8 was dropping, or how to write it in such a way that it wouldn't be obsoleted in a month. That's irresponsible on their part. You'll always be putting your trust in someone if you're not doing it yourself. There's no way to absolutely guarantee what's being done is an effective path, but you can always have development plans vetted by a third party, and it may be worth it. In the JS world there's always a "flavor of the week". There are several standouts, e.g., React, AngJS, EmberJS, whatever. The back-end isn't as relevant if all it's doing is shipping data to the client (browser), but infrastructure costs and maintenance always matter. It also depends on what the back-end actually needs to do (batch jobs, timed jobs, etc.) but you have a lot of flexibility in this regard. Feel free to reach out if you have additional questions; I'm reasonably easy to get ahold of. http://stackoverflow.com/users/438992/dave-newton http://stackoverflow.com/users/438992/dave-newton

davelnewton 9y ago

The tech race is unavoidable. Focusing on a web app buys you some more longevity. I'd say you got ripped off by your devs; it's not like nobody knew when Win8 was dropping, or how to write it in such a way that it wouldn't be obsoleted in a month. That's irresponsible on their part. You'll always be putting your trust in someone if you're not doing it yourself. There's no way to absolutely guarantee what's being done is an effective path, but you can always have development plans vetted by a third party, and it may be worth it. In the JS world there's always a "flavor of the week". There are several standouts, e.g., React, AngJS, EmberJS, whatever. The back-end isn't as relevant if all it's doing is shipping data to the client (browser), but infrastructure costs and maintenance always matter. It also depends on what the back-end actually needs to do (batch jobs, timed jobs, etc.) but you have a lot of flexibility in this regard. Feel free to reach out if you have additional questions; I'm reasonably easy to get ahold of. http://stackoverflow.com/users/438992/dave-newton http://stackoverflow.com/users/438992/dave-newton