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Re: Ask HN: What tech stack do YC startups use?

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Post by notduncansmith »

tim333 wrote: post #33
aswanson wrote: post #28

Interesting that bootstrap is negatively correlated with success.

Yeah, I guess maybe it's good for knocking things together quickly but a bit generic looking for your masterpiece.

If you don't change the default styles, sure. It looks decent enough that you can get an MVP into production without having to do much other than a light top coat for branding. Later on, you may want to invest in more heavily customizing some elements, but Bootstrap will pretty much stay out of your way.

Source: Senior front-end dev that puts around one app per month into production using Bootstrap (some more heavily tweaked than others).

Re: Ask HN: What tech stack do YC startups use?

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Post by atmosx »

johan_larson wrote: post #48
tomblomfield wrote: post #10

From 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.

Any idea why Google's App Engine isn't more popular? Too many restrictions? Too expensive? It's used quite a bit by other AngelList companies: App Engine 295 Heroku 969 AWS 388

Because Google's App Engine might not be around this time next year, while AWS will most probably be there 10 years from today.

Re: Ask HN: What tech stack do YC startups use?

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Post by SkyMarshal »

johan_larson wrote: post #48
tomblomfield wrote: post #10

From 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.

Any idea why Google's App Engine isn't more popular? Too many restrictions? Too expensive? It's used quite a bit by other AngelList companies: App Engine 295 Heroku 969 AWS 388

Lock-in. Good hackers want control, portability, and to not have to learn a proprietary platform.

Re: Ask HN: What tech stack do YC startups use?

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Post by kogir »

arihant wrote: post #25
johan_larson wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe. On the other hand, Paul Graham has strong views on what great hackers are like, which are likely to color his evaluations of candidate companies. It would be surprising to see a YC company running an Azure/Windows/C#/Visual Studio/TFS stack. And there are good reasons why someone might do so. http://www.paulgraham.com/gh.html

I believe Loopt was on C# stack and its founder is currently leading YC, so I'm sure Paul didn't take stack too seriously when evaluating companies. There are a lot of good reasons to use Microsoft stack, and I suspect more than a handful YC companies use it. Paul said it is advisable to not use enterprise technologies if you're willing to attract high quality engineers only. He never said it can't be done and it is…

I was Loopt's CTO and would use Microsoft's stack again, especially now.

Not everything was perfect, but C#, F# and SQL Server are great, updates rarely broke anything, and security updates came regularly and promptly.

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