> I think the most appropriate advice is to choose a stack which the founding team is most familiar with. If that means RoR then RoR is fine. If it means PHP t

> I think the most appropriate advice is to choose a stack which the founding team is most familiar with. If that means RoR then RoR is fine. If it means PHP then PHP is fine too. Taking human resource information into consideration sounds very wise. Although, learning a new language is generally not that a huge barrier, while changing your whole stack once the minimum viable product cap is passed can be very expensive. And if you need to scale the team, the available developer pool is not the same depending on which technology you have to stick with. It doesn’t invalidate your point, but maybe it brings some relevant nuances.