It's true. I've been burned a few times trying to pick something new to base a non-trivial app on. Almost every time I do this I end up running into bugs that h

It's true. I've been burned a few times trying to pick something new to base a non-trivial app on. Almost every time I do this I end up running into bugs that haven't been reported or documented anywhere. Building an app and starting a business is hard enough. Having to pioneer a new tech (when you're not the inventor of the new tech) is a massive burden if it's not a game changer for doing something critical in your app. At this point I've spoken with 74 different devs who built 74 different apps (big and small) on a tech stack oriented podcast[0] and by far the most common trend they bring up is keeping things simple and choosing boring tech. This round up post[1] goes into more detail on innovation tokens (aka. a system for choosing new tech in a controlled way) and other trend extractions from 50+ episodes. [0]: https://runninginproduction.com/podcast/ https://runninginproduction.com/podcast/ [1]: https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/talking-with-52-devs-about-building-deploying-web-apps-and-tech-stacks https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/talking-with-52-devs-about-bu...