Ask HN: What is your favorite tool to build web startup?

Inspired by https://steveblank.com/2011/09/22/how-to-build-a-web-startup-lean-launchpad-edition/.

List your favorite tools, share your experience if any.

An additional question would be all the ancillary tools needed to build a startup:

Mail + Payments + Payroll + Insurance + Marketing +++ etc..

It depends on what I'm trying to accomplish. If I'm trying to build something quick to prove that there are interested people out there I use a static html page with JQuery and Form Gadget (https://www.formgadget.com/) to handle form submissions and integrations. Sometimes this is enough even for the product depending on what it is.

If it's something that includes a subscription model, etc, then I like Akka Http (Scala), Slick, JQuery or React + Redux. More importantly though go with what you know well and can make progress in quickly, unless you want to learn something new.

Disclosure: I built Form Gadget.

Rails (I'm Ruby dev). I've been playing with Vue lately and like it a lot. You can have all component's code in one place -> html+js+css, so it's super fast and easy to keep adding code. Also, I like React, but somehow whenever I use it I feel I am writing a lot of code for simple stuff.

I am finishing my first product in Elixir. It has some rough edges like deployment, but I start to like it more than ruby&rails - the code is much more readable and imo easier to write. Surprisingly I feel a bit more productive in it than rails.

I'd say the best tool is the one you know. If you don't know any tool for your specific problems, look for the simplest and most sane solution.

GitHub Pages, Google Forms, WordPress, Mailchimp.

Angular, Spring Boot and PostgreSQL if it actually turns out to be something for which there’s sufficient demand.