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I'm inclined to say the MS stack is fairly unconventional for startups these days. One decent heuristic for whether a decision is conventional is whether your p
by Zak 16y ago
I'm inclined to say the MS stack is fairly unconventional for startups these days. One decent heuristic for whether a decision is conventional is whether your peers are likely to ask "why did you do that?". If a startup's stack is Rails on EC2, few in the startup world would bother to question it.
So, why did you do that?
- mgkimsal 16y agoI'm going to guess that that's what the person/team had experience with already. I've not known many people who were already technical developers who started a venture and swapped over to entirely 'new to them' tech just because it's what some other people were using. Go with what you know and have mastery of already - you've got enough going against you starting a new venture already - don't add to it by trying to learn something like django or rails just because someone on HN or TC used it too. That said, using 'unconventional' tech may make it harder to find more devs in the future if they're needed. Or... it may mean that you're simply pulling from a different pool. If you're one of 15 rails-based ventures someone is looking to join, you won't stand out as much as the one Perl-based operation.
- profquail 16y agoWell, I can't answer for Stronico, but we use a similar stack (Visual Studio 2010, Windows 7 / Server 2008 R2) for development and ASP.NET MVC 2 / IIS / SQL Server / Azure for our website. Using something else wasn't even really a question, since our product is .NET-based, and I'd already had a few years of experience as an ASP.NET dev. I'd bet that nearly all of the other startups using a Microsoft-based stack have a senior / lead developer who has a significant amount of C# / .NET experience.