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What Was Stack Overflow Built With?

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Re: What Was Stack Overflow Built With?

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Post by anthonyrubin »

utnick wrote: post #9
kschrader wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Microsoft's stack adds a not-insignificant cost to a 3-4 person bootstrapped startup's budget. Up to you whether or not you're getting enough of a productivity gain to justify it.

Visual studio express editions are free and a windows vps is cheap. Even if you decide to spring for the full developer licenses you are looking at less than a week of a developers salary for some really good tools.

During one of the podcasts I believe Jeff stated that he was able to get free copies of the most expensive version of Visual Studio from a friend at MS.

Re: What Was Stack Overflow Built With?

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Post by anthonyrubin »

utnick wrote: post #9
kschrader wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Microsoft's stack adds a not-insignificant cost to a 3-4 person bootstrapped startup's budget. Up to you whether or not you're getting enough of a productivity gain to justify it.

Visual studio express editions are free and a windows vps is cheap. Even if you decide to spring for the full developer licenses you are looking at less than a week of a developers salary for some really good tools.

How much would SQL Server licenses cost?

Re: What Was Stack Overflow Built With?

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Post by mattmaroon »

wayne wrote: post #10

It's probably not the stack I would pick and my initial reaction is always to gasp when I see startups built on Microsoft, but... - ASP.NET can scale, if you do it right. Aside from Microsoft.com/MSN, which don't really count, MySpace uses it (though they upgraded from ColdFusion, which wasn't much better) and Plenty of Fish, the web's largest dating site, uses it too: http://www.plentyoffish.com/about_team.aspx Thes…

Also, lot easier to find programmers if you're in .net or java. One might argue about the quality, but certainly the supply is much larger.

Re: What Was Stack Overflow Built With?

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Post by icey »

anthonyrubin wrote: post #12
utnick wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Visual studio express editions are free and a windows vps is cheap. Even if you decide to spring for the full developer licenses you are looking at less than a week of a developers salary for some really good tools.

How much would SQL Server licenses cost?

I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic or not but I'll give you the benefit of the doubt:

http://www.microsoft.com/sql/editions/express/default.mspx

Re: What Was Stack Overflow Built With?

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Post by aschobel »

kschrader wrote: post #7
aschobel wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If your team is comfortable with Microsoft's stack, why force them to learn Java/python? Well, they other options are open. So it might make sense. :P

Microsoft's stack adds a not-insignificant cost to a 3-4 person bootstrapped startup's budget. Up to you whether or not you're getting enough of a productivity gain to justify it.

If you are a startup you can probably get Microsoft's software for free.

Talk to one of their technology evangelists, they love seeing cutting edge companies building their business on MS.

Anand Iyer, http://blogs.msdn.com/aniyer/, can point you in the right direction.

Re: What Was Stack Overflow Built With?

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Post by michaelneale »

kschrader wrote: post #7
aschobel wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If your team is comfortable with Microsoft's stack, why force them to learn Java/python? Well, they other options are open. So it might make sense. :P

Microsoft's stack adds a not-insignificant cost to a 3-4 person bootstrapped startup's budget. Up to you whether or not you're getting enough of a productivity gain to justify it.

Jeff Attwood and co that built it are used to .Net/MS/Visual Studio development, so for them the cost was probably small compared to the cost of switching stacks + tools.

Re: What Was Stack Overflow Built With?

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Post by danw »

kschrader wrote: post #7
aschobel wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If your team is comfortable with Microsoft's stack, why force them to learn Java/python? Well, they other options are open. So it might make sense. :P

Microsoft's stack adds a not-insignificant cost to a 3-4 person bootstrapped startup's budget. Up to you whether or not you're getting enough of a productivity gain to justify it.

The MS stack also has lots of good tools which can help speed up development.
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