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Ask HN: What is your favorite tool to build web startup?

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Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite tool to build web startup?

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Post by jamestimmins »

samstave wrote: post #3

An additional question would be all the ancillary tools needed to build a startup: Mail + Payments + Payroll + Insurance + Marketing +++ etc..

I suspect that this is substantially more important as a differentiator, because they directly facilitate interaction with customers.

Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite tool to build web startup?

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Post by joshmn »

My favorite tool is boring Ruby/Rails because I know it best and I'm hyper-productive.

Your favorite tool should be whatever allows you to be hyper-productive. The goal isn't to be flashy or cool or hip, the goal is to create something: features, changes, bugs, etc.

If you value your time and sanity, go with what you know.

Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite tool to build web startup?

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Post by quickthrower2 »

cdnsteve wrote: post #15

The thing that often gets misunderstood is that there's no magic technology that gives a massive competitive advantage here. If you pick Django/Python, PHP/Laravel, Rails, Node, Go, Java, whatever... you end up the same place. Keep it simple, since it will change if your business experiences growth anyways. Pick what you know, or what you want to hire for. How do you create value for your customers and offer them som…

Use the tools you are used to. I doubt there is much advantage in any particular stack. They seem to catch up to each other. Ruby has some kind of type checker nowadays (can't recall the name). .NET has dynamic types if you need them etc. etc. I like the idea of using Haskell but really I can never be more productive than using my "home stack".

Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite tool to build web startup?

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Post by Karupan »

Of late, I've moved to Elm/Lambda functions/DynamoDB or PostgreSQL. I've seen my productivity improve a lot when using Elm with the added advantage of being able to clearly define the problem in my mind.

Using Netlify for deployment has also save me a lot of headache (they really are awesome!)

In the end, like everyone else points out, its about picking a set of tools which lets you work without thinking too much about the development process itself.

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