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Ask YC Startups: Do you use Django, Rails, PHP or Other?
There's been a lot of info recently about the hosting plans of YC startups but less discussion about development technology trends. I would be curious to know what the dominant technology is for developing apps among YC startups.
- poltergeist 17y agoDjango here.
- whalesalad 17y agoDjango, http://schoolrack.com http://schoolrack.com We (the developers) are actually beginning to feel like it's one of the biggest Django sites on the interweb right now. Definitely not trying to toot my own horn here, but we're gaining users like mad and traffic is insane. Disclaimer: I figure the OP's question is more directed at HN members rather than YC startups, but for the record we're not a YC startup
- jacquesm 17y agoNice to see you gaining ground so fast during the holiday season, makes you wonder how it will go once school starts!
- apsurd 17y agojust a heads up: on the about page this sentence -> Our mission from the onset has been to seamlessly connecting teachers, students, and parents through the Internet. should be "to seamlessly connect..." ?
- whalesalad 17y agoThanks for the heads up, just updated the servers.
- gaia-forming 17y agoLooking at the site, I have no doubts that you are doing well. Very nice, I congratulate you. You have found a niche, and your execution is top notch.
- aaroneous 17y agoSorry to call you out, but your directly quantified Quantcast results show you at less than 1k uniques per day. There are a LOT of Django sites out there with considerably more traffic and it misrepresents the size of the Django community to suggest that, "one of the biggest Django sites" is only serving a few hundred hits a day.
- jacquesm 17y agoI believe the OP, I don't mind sharing my own stats, we're somewhere between 10 and 15 K uniques daily, google has us pegged at about 100k uniques (don't ask me what they're smoking there, probably something to do with subdomains), here is the alexa graph comparing ww.com and schoolrack.com, you can draw your own conclusions. http://alexa.com/siteinfo/schoolrack.com+ww.com http://alexa.com/siteinfo/schoolrack.com+ww.com A tripling of your traffic in 30 days during the 'off' season is a pretty good showing in my book, as long as it wasn't when coming from '10' users to '30' users :)
- aaroneous 17y agoQuantcast's "Directly Quantified" stats come from the publisher embedding Quantcast's js tracking on their site - so it's kind of like making your Google Analytics data public.
- whalesalad 17y agoWe get a lot less traffic during the summer months (school isn't in session) and towards the end of the year for the holidays... but we do get quite more traffic than our quantcast page suggests. It does look like I was totally full of my own shit though, we're clearly not that big when it comes to the other Django sites out there.
- snprbob86 17y agoIt looks like an average of 50,000 monthly uniques when school is in session. Do you mind sharing your actual numbers? And can you hazard a guess why Quantcast is so inaccurate? It seems curious, considering you have their javascript tracking code on every page of your site. If their tracker is so broken, why use them and not Google Analytics?
- leif 17y agooh thank god please please PLEASE kill blackboard
- siong1987 17y agohttp://stackoverflow.com/questions/886221/does-django-scale http://stackoverflow.com/questions/886221/does-django-scale Look at the first answer. It seems like there are bigger django websites out there.
- simanyay 17y agoDjango at DISQUS.
- elai 17y agoDjango. You should of made a poll.
- christopherdone 17y agoIt's "should have"; the contraction is "should've".
- rewind 17y agoI always thought the grammar police had weekends off.
- boundlessdreamz 17y agoAm I the only one who thinks that people who are correcting the grammar and spelling are actually doing a service. It really doesn't matter in a forum like this.But if you have poor grammar,you may find that the impression you make on other people may be less than stellar.A good command of the language can be incredibly valuable. [Palin vs Obama]
- bmelton 17y agoI don't know if it's fair or not, but I always feel like the conversation at HN is somewhat... academic, for lack of a better word. The nature of the community seems to encourage one's best behavior, or at least better behavior than I would exhibit in some other places perhaps. Grammar correction is somewhat a conundrum. On the one hand, it IS sort of rude to point out the faults of another, especially as it can often be attributed to expedient typing. On the other hand, if I made a mistake and didn't realize, I'd REALLY REALLY want someone to point it out to me, so that I could learn from it. Completely aside though, it's interesting to me how poor grammar seems to spread. Until about two years ago, I had honestly NEVER seen anyone use "should of" in print, and now it seems to be a prevalent mistake.
- basugasubaku 17y ago
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- trefn 17y agoDjango at Mixpanel.
- Luyt 17y agoPython.
- leif 17y agoDjango if I use a framework, but usually straight python or perl CGI. I'm assuming you meant "webapps".
- warfangle 17y agoRails at one; we're looking into liftweb/scala at the other. We see the robustness of the jvm as a lot more useful at the latter- and scala seems like a good fit (better than java itself, or ruby for that matter) for the kind of datamining we're going to do. Granted, C would likely be much faster, but the ability to include third party java packages and the amount of boilerplate needed for C turned us off to that. Add in a good web framework like Lift, and we don't see the need to fracture our server-side apps into many different languages.
- mrshoe 17y agoRolled our own in Python. EDIT: I should mention that CherryPy is at its heart. We love CherryPy. And our chat backend uses a secret sauce Python async framework that might or might not be open sourced very soon...
- Xixi 17y agoDjango here too...
- Xixi 17y agoOoops, I should have added : not a YC startup.
- fuelfive 17y agoRails at Frogmetrics, PollEverywhere, Posterous
- larryfreeman 17y agoPHP on one project and Rails on the other.
- lyime 17y agoRails + JS at Mugasha
- immad 17y agoRails, heyzap.com
- j15e 17y agoHere we are using PHP/CakePHP on almost all our projects. Why? I have being using PHP for almost 10 years, so it was a lot easier to switch to a PHP framework when I switched to an open source framework about 3 years ago. PHP is also easier to get on a shared hosting (maybe not anymore, but at the time I made my switch, it was a major concern). Like : API, doc, large community. Dislike : php syntax (->), no active record, PHP4 support (no real visibility control), deployment on windows/ISS is no easy task. But future looks good as they plan to drop PHP4 quite soon with 1.3. Some website we created using cake: http://www.themetropolitain.ca http://www.themetropolitain.ca http://www.gogarneau.com http://www.gogarneau.com I hate "->".
- dkokelley 17y agoPoll version: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=750142 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=750142
- adw 17y agoWe're not YC, but Django at Timetric.
- andrewtj 17y agoStartup is Global Hostname: http://www.globalhostname.com/ http://www.globalhostname.com/ DNS server is implemented in Twisted (but is not derived from twisted.names) and web site is Django+nginx. Database is Postgres.
- jobenjo 17y agoDjango at Fluther.
- redact207 17y agoASP.NET MVC, sql server 08
- jerryji 17y agoPylons [ http://pylonshq.com/ http://pylonshq.com/ ] -- a lightweight (Python) web framework emphasizing flexibility and rapid development.
- abalashov 17y agoGWT!
- intranation 17y agoShort: we use a Django frontend to an Erlang backend. Long answer: we used Django because that's what I knew best, but we're going to switch to Pylons because it's more flexible (being a so-called "glue framework") and has less dependency on a database (tried writing a custom authentication backend in Django without a database? Good luck). So Django is great if you have a database; less so if you don't (I guess that's the whole "full stack" thing).
- mattdennewitz 17y agodjango4life
- chrischen 17y agoPHP custom framework!