Perhaps a large percentage of startups are using .net but not mentioning it to HN for fear of not sounding cool like Ruby or a NoSQL platform. We use it becau

Perhaps a large percentage of startups are using .net but not mentioning it to HN for fear of not sounding cool like Ruby or a NoSQL platform. We use it because we know it and can launch something fast. It does everything we need it to do, maybe the backend is not very elegant, but functionality wise, it's all there. For us, getting a userbase and revenue going is far more desirable than learning the new 'ultimate platform that scales to the universe'.