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Re: Ask YC Startups: Do you use Django, Rails, PHP or Other?

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Post by aaroneous » Sun, Aug 09, 2009, 12:01 AM UTC

whalesalad wrote: post #3

Django, 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

Sorry 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.

Re: Ask YC Startups: Do you use Django, Rails, PHP or Other?

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Post by christopherdone » Sun, Aug 09, 2009, 12:03 AM UTC

elai wrote: post #6

Django. You should of made a poll.

It's "should have"; the contraction is "should've".

Re: Ask YC Startups: Do you use Django, Rails, PHP or Other?

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Post by Luyt » Sun, Aug 09, 2009, 12:05 AM UTC

Python.

Re: Ask YC Startups: Do you use Django, Rails, PHP or Other?

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Post by leif » Sun, Aug 09, 2009, 12:10 AM UTC

Django if I use a framework, but usually straight python or perl CGI.

I'm assuming you meant "webapps".

Re: Ask YC Startups: Do you use Django, Rails, PHP or Other?

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Post by warfangle » Sun, Aug 09, 2009, 12:11 AM UTC

Rails 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.

Re: Ask YC Startups: Do you use Django, Rails, PHP or Other?

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Post by leif » Sun, Aug 09, 2009, 12:11 AM UTC

whalesalad wrote: post #3

Django, 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

oh thank god please please PLEASE kill blackboard

Re: Ask YC Startups: Do you use Django, Rails, PHP or Other?

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Post by rewind » Sun, Aug 09, 2009, 12:12 AM UTC

christopherdone wrote: post #12

elai wrote: post #6

Django. You should of made a poll.

It's "should have"; the contraction is "should've".

I always thought the grammar police had weekends off.

Re: Ask YC Startups: Do you use Django, Rails, PHP or Other?

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Post by mrshoe » Sun, Aug 09, 2009, 12:13 AM UTC

Rolled 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...

Re: Ask YC Startups: Do you use Django, Rails, PHP or Other?

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Post by Xixi » Sun, Aug 09, 2009, 12:22 AM UTC

Django here too...

Re: Ask YC Startups: Do you use Django, Rails, PHP or Other?

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Post by fuelfive » Sun, Aug 09, 2009, 12:32 AM UTC

Rails at Frogmetrics, PollEverywhere, Posterous