i would challenge the average hacker to step back and think about this. mark zuckerberg was a fan of perl (not the most attractive language, but hey it gets th

i would challenge the average hacker to step back and think about this. mark zuckerberg was a fan of perl (not the most attractive language, but hey it gets the job done). facebook still operates on php. do a waybackmachine search on facebook's earliest version. it seems that within weeks of their initial launch, they were in every online college newspaper and several major news outlets. facebook marketed the hell out of their application, and it beat a lot of rival college apps (some who made threats against the facebook team early on and tried to ddos the site). make your code easy to maintain, build a good product, and market the hell out of it. people are not going to come if you build it unless it has an overwhelming viral effect. but i'm seeing sometimes that a competitive advantage means being in techcrunch before someone else.