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Ask HN: What technologies do you use in your startup?
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#22Rails on Heroku (Meaning, Postgresql database)
Re: Ask HN: What technologies do you use in your startup?
#23Can you name a single startup that failed because of their inability to scale? Development speed is way more important than scalability. Like Paul Graham says, the vast majority of startups fail because they make a product no one wants or because they never launch a product in the first place. Faster software development means you figure out if your product is a dud faster, and you're less likely to run out of morale…
I wonder, could the following be true: any startup that faces the problem of unscalable implementation will by then have the necessary resources to resolve the scaling problem? Because, by the time you run into scalability problems, you'll probably have enough investor|customer money to invest in re-architecturing your code?
That implies that startups charge money for their product/service. More often than not, sites that need to scale for millions of users are "free to use".
Re: Ask HN: What technologies do you use in your startup?
#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
I wonder, could the following be true: any startup that faces the problem of unscalable implementation will by then have the necessary resources to resolve the scaling problem? Because, by the time you run into scalability problems, you'll probably have enough investor|customer money to invest in re-architecturing your code?
That implies that startups charge money for their product/service. More often than not, sites that need to scale for millions of users are "free to use".
He also mentioned investor money. Investors tend to invest in sites that have tons of users even if the site is unprofitable at the time of investment (see youtube, digg, facebook).