More marketability definitely helps with passing it on to the next sucker, so it's a valuable feature that shouldn't be overlooked. The next VC is likely to be

More marketability definitely helps with passing it on to the next sucker, so it's a valuable feature that shouldn't be overlooked. The next VC is likely to be more interested in the first AI- & blockchain-powered application running on AWS InfiniDash than boring Rails on Heroku & Postgres. Cheaper solutions would be a good pick for something that has a very good chance of success and thus doesn't need a "next sucker" nor media attention, but those are very rare as typically it would be bootstrapped and not involve VC to begin with.