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If you don't mind answering, what did you write the software for your startup with?

• patio11 18y ago
  I sell a desktop application that is written in Java. My web site is written in Rails (with the obligatory Javascript bits). The distinction between the two is blurring these days. The core feature of my website is a backend where my freelancers enter new content, which is then operated on by my program, and turned into a page on my website advertising "Here's a taste of content you find compelling. You could make something like this if you only pushed yonder download button". This was originally intended to be mostly for marketing and SEO. Then I got a bright idea: wait, I pay people to add to that content every month. What if I could update the application with it automatically? My users don't care about the distinction between code and data one iota: from their perspective, adding more content to the program improves what it can do. So I offer access to the new content as one of the benefits of purchasing the application -- free at the margin for me, high perceived benefit to the customers. Its like having a program that gets an automatically generated .1 upgrade every month.