This is why I always start with Django or Ruby on Rails. It's "boring", battle-tested, has great support and gets you _very very_ far before you need to choose

This is why I always start with Django or Ruby on Rails. It's "boring", battle-tested, has great support and gets you _very very_ far before you need to choose $HOTTECH. Choosing $HOTTECH too early will destroy you. Building an entire business around $HOTTECH when the majority of people barely have a business model or a defined market are just asking for trouble. It's also substantially more difficult and expensive to recruit for $HOTTECH but if you form a solid team on boring tech, and you build something sustainable that actually makes money, you can invest the time into building something with $HOTTECH and create subject matter experts out of your "boring" team. This is why our company primarily recruits from coop programs - you can mold them into experts without most of the baggage from grey beards.