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Re: Show HN: See what the best startups in the world are using

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Post by lazugod »

sspiff wrote: post #36

I'm sorry, but can we stop calling these startups? Companies like Twitter, eBay, GitHub, Mozilla, Netflix and Atlassian are past the startup stage by now. Many of them have been market leaders for years. Calling Intuit a startup isn't even stretching it anymore. They're 30 years old and have a revenue of over $4B. I realize HN thinks startups are sexy, but these have no business being labeled startups. If Intuit is a…

Whichever company realizes it can brand itself as "newer than startups" will have a marketing boon.

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Post by jaegerpicker »

mcintyre1994 wrote: post #50
arocks wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Exactly. It would be great if we can see which languages and other server side technologies they use.

www.builtwith.com seems to be pretty accurate, probably a good starting point for that information.

Of the four major sites that I've personally worked on, built with was wrong on them all. Two of the four I expected because it's using Javascript to hit a API and I think that would likely be much more difficult to guess correctly. What I didn't expect was that they would all be reported as using php when none of them do. Sure it's a really small sample set and I bet overall they are doing fine but I thought it worth mentioning.

Re: Show HN: See what the best startups in the world are using

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Post by Zolomon »

Would be interesting to see a recursive descent (probably wrong term, my swedish is getting in the way) of this; Twitter uses Pingdom, now I want to click on Pingdom to see what they use.

Also, a graph with dependencies between these companies would be cool to see. Security companies might want to give the node with most edges a call or two.

Re: Show HN: See what the best startups in the world are using

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Post by salimmadjd »

Great idea, but kind of disappointed in the data. For a site called leanstack, I don't see any of the used stack. What DB they're using, which framework, etc.

for example, I know Instagram uses python, redis and Postgres. Pinterest python/django but moving to flask and using MySQL. But I'm curious to know about other sites.

Re: Show HN: See what the best startups in the world are using

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Post by fuzzywalrus »

sspiff wrote: post #36

I'm sorry, but can we stop calling these startups? Companies like Twitter, eBay, GitHub, Mozilla, Netflix and Atlassian are past the startup stage by now. Many of them have been market leaders for years. Calling Intuit a startup isn't even stretching it anymore. They're 30 years old and have a revenue of over $4B. I realize HN thinks startups are sexy, but these have no business being labeled startups. If Intuit is a…

Here here! I visited the above link and my immediate reaction was, "These aren't startups..."
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