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What Was Stack Overflow Built With?
- seiji 18y agoIt's an abomination on so many levels.
- aschobel 18y agoIf your team is comfortable with Microsoft's stack, why force them to learn Java/python? Well, they other options are open. So it might make sense. :P
- kschrader 18y agoMicrosoft's stack adds a not-insignificant cost to a 3-4 person bootstrapped startup's budget. Up to you whether or not you're getting enough of a productivity gain to justify it.
- utnick 18y agoVisual studio express editions are free and a windows vps is cheap. Even if you decide to spring for the full developer licenses you are looking at less than a week of a developers salary for some really good tools.
- anthonyrubin 18y agoDuring one of the podcasts I believe Jeff stated that he was able to get free copies of the most expensive version of Visual Studio from a friend at MS.
- anthonyrubin 18y agoHow much would SQL Server licenses cost?
- icey 18y agoI'm not sure if you're being sarcastic or not but I'll give you the benefit of the doubt: http://www.microsoft.com/sql/editions/express/default.mspx http://www.microsoft.com/sql/editions/express/default.mspx
- aschobel 18y agoIf you are a startup you can probably get Microsoft's software for free. Talk to one of their technology evangelists, they love seeing cutting edge companies building their business on MS. Anand Iyer, http://blogs.msdn.com/aniyer/ http://blogs.msdn.com/aniyer/, can point you in the right direction.
- michaelneale 18y agoJeff Attwood and co that built it are used to .Net/MS/Visual Studio development, so for them the cost was probably small compared to the cost of switching stacks + tools.
- danw 18y agoThe MS stack also has lots of good tools which can help speed up development.
- tptacek 18y agoHey, everyone, let's use this content-free comment to vote on how much we like ASP.NET!
- jwilliams 18y ago.. At least they didn't use Visual SourceSafe.
- chrisbroadfoot 18y agoASP.net MVC in C# I believe
- rw 18y agoWith what was Stock Overflow built?
- ph0rque 18y agoAs long as we're being pedantic: With what was Stack Overflow built? :~)
- wayne 18y agoIt's probably not the stack I would pick and my initial reaction is always to gasp when I see startups built on Microsoft, but... - ASP.NET can scale, if you do it right. Aside from Microsoft.com/MSN, which don't really count, MySpace uses it (though they upgraded from ColdFusion, which wasn't much better) and Plenty of Fish, the web's largest dating site, uses it too: http://www.plentyoffish.com/about_team.aspx http://www.plentyoffish.com/about_team.aspx These are probably all larger than the most successful Rails sites. - ASP.NET MVC isn't a horrible programming model. Forget the abomination that's normal ASP.NET with its funky events. If you've used another MVC framework like Rails or Cake, you'll feel right at home. - Microsoft's startup program gives startups the early software for super cheap: http://microsoftstartupzone.com/ http://microsoftstartupzone.com/ - It's all about getting v1 out and releasing early and often. If your team grew up on Microsoft, are you really going to make them all learn a new framework? If you do it right and prove out your idea, you can always rewrite later.
- mattmaroon 18y agoAlso, lot easier to find programmers if you're in .net or java. One might argue about the quality, but certainly the supply is much larger.
- pchristensen 18y ago"my initial reaction is always to gasp when I see startups built on Microsoft, but..." What would you recommend that career Microsoft developers use for their startups?
- tocomment 18y agoMaybe just have static html pages, web services, and jquery for Ajax. Use whatever you want for the web services (Python)
- known 18y agoI didn't like stackoverflow.com UI.