I picked Elixir to develop Statuspal 4 years ago as a solo founder, I’m pretty happy with the decision so far, we’ve been in production for close that time and

I picked Elixir to develop Statuspal 4 years ago as a solo founder, I’m pretty happy with the decision so far, we’ve been in production for close that time and I feel very productive and enjoy it a lot. That’s not to say we never encounter hiccups, we’ve been bitten by a few libraries getting unmaintained, a few drastic changes in Phoenix in the first years, and a hard time getting a proper deployment setup, but nowadays is much more mature. Thanks to Elixir we got away with things like not needing to cache (for quite some time) with great performance and with little resources, not worrying about the app becoming slow if 6 people visit at the same time. Hiring Elixir developers is not as easy as RoR devs but is doable, I had good experience in Elixir specific places like https://elixirjobs.net/ https://elixirjobs.net/ and Upwork to a lesser degree.