You should have programming pals you can network with. You should have entrepreneur friends you can network with. Alone you are going to make bad decisions, if

You should have programming pals you can network with. You should have entrepreneur friends you can network with. Alone you are going to make bad decisions, if you have friends you can learn from THEIR mistakes and bad decisions, and their good decisions too, much faster than you alone. Those guys have already made databases, they have built web apps or whatever you want to do. If you know successful people on your field, use whatever they use, just copy them, correcting for your own circumstances and capabilities. It is probably the best way humans(and primates in general) learn, by imitation from the best. This can and is hacked by advertising industry because it works subconsciously: You see the best tennis player in the world drive a particular car model or wear a watch and you want this car model or watch. Or they watch their favorite musician take drugs or get tattooed and want to do the same. This makes no sense(copying some master outside her area of expertise) but if you are into tennis you should "spy" what the best tennis player does for training and so on. What is incredible is that most people will help you if you just ask them. Once you do you will learn: * It is not overwhelming. There are very clear tradeoffs with each technology. * There are not so many options available that are mature and proven.