What tech stack do the YC software startups tend to use these days?
I'm going to guess Ruby on Rails, AWS, Angular.
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#2I wouldn't assume there is a "YC tech stack". From individual blog posts I've read there is great diversity among YC companies' tech stacks. I also wouldn't assume that rails + angular is, or is even considered to be, the cutting edge of web stacks.
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#4Is php ever used?
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#5Rails. In w10, we were one of two non-rails users, though it seems that has changed to larger diversity.
Most YC companies use CircleCI, so we get to see some of the diversity. While I haven't got concrete stats on this, I think it leans slightly more heavily rails than usual (and usual is about 50%). Bear in mind that that's skewed in some ways: if they were using C# for example they couldn't use us.
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#6Here's a broader look at tech stacks used by startups on Angel List: http://codingvc.com/which-technologies-do-startups-use-an-ex...
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#7Is php ever used?
Probably only with things such as Laravel, but I guess it's frowned upon.
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#8Is php ever used?
As an anecdote - in my circles I observe that PHP is very popular among people who started working in web ~2000, while ruby is popular among those who started in ~2007. Nothing to do with seniority etc, I think it's simply the default choice of whatever was in vogue at the time when the person started hacking, and by now many PHP guys skew older and are out of the startup game (i.e. working in established companies on established products).
As another example, I'm still astonishingly productive with PHP for backend APIs and rapid development projects. The symfony/Doctrine community has done a phenomenal job at bringing world-class tools to the language.
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#9The tools that everyone else usess, skewed to the "new, modern side" would be my guess.
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#10From my experience - Ruby on Rails, some kind of Javascript framework (Ember, Backbone, Angular), Postgres & Redis as data stores, hosted on Heroku.
As you scale to the point at which Heroku is expensive, move over to AWS.