> PHP and MySQL aren't the sexy HN choice, and there are problems with both, but both will get you a very long ways before they are ever your main problem as a

> PHP and MySQL aren't the sexy HN choice, and there are problems with both, but both will get you a very long ways before they are ever your main problem as a startup. This is only true if you don't have your technological sights set particularly high. We could not implement some of the things we do, reliably, with PHP and MySQL. We'd spend more time battling the tools than we would working on our actual product.