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If you are a startup it’s best to focus on the product and not necessarily the implementation Groupon was prototyped in Wordpress.
by zitterbewegung 5y ago
If you are a startup it’s best to focus on the product and not necessarily the implementation
Groupon was prototyped in Wordpress.
- Zababa 5y agoAnd Rails was extracted from Basecamp. I think startups depend so much on the few firsts individuals that it's hard to have a hard rule about what to use.
- spooneybarger 5y agoWallaroo started as a company that was building high-performance data processing infrastructure for real-time trading and adjacent systems. Wordpress wouldn't really cut it.
- steveklabnik 5y agoFor some startups, that makes sense, yes. For other startups, it may not. See pg's classic essay (that I'm not 100% sure I agree with, but, we're on hacker news) for one example of why you may want to use a more niche langauge: http://www.paulgraham.com/pypar.html http://www.paulgraham.com/pypar.html Ruby on Rails was created for Basecamp.