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

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Post by tel »

pbiggar wrote: post #5

Rails. 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.

I thought you guys were using Clojure?

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

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Post by logicuce »

Artemis2 wrote: post #7
nickthemagicman wrote: post #4

Is php ever used?

Probably only with things such as Laravel, but I guess it's frowned upon.

One's proficiency in a language is more important than using a newly learnt shiny thing out there. Given the people who get in the YC batches are deemed to be smarter of us, I would not expect them to be judgmental about these things.

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

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Post by franciscop »

nickthemagicman wrote: post #4

Is php ever used?

Laravel is indeed the thing I am learning next from PHP, and I love the Startup ecosystem (and working in one), so I guess I'm not the only one. Also, take into account different countries; I'm from Spain and the Rails ecosystem is really weak here.

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

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Post by Kiro »

tel wrote: post #11
pbiggar wrote: post #5

Rails. 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.

I thought you guys were using Clojure?

What makes you think they are not?

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

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Post by jacquesm »

nickthemagicman wrote: post #4

Is php ever used?

Pure conjecture, use salt liberally: PHP was 'in vogue' in 1998 to the mid 00's, after that a ton of other (and better) options appeared (I say that as a 'PHP guy'). So if you look at younger people you're likely not going to find a very large number of programmers there that will have PHP as their first language of choice. The older ones though might find that their experience with that particular platform will give them an edge over first learning a new stack.

So to complete the guess I think if you focus on the teams with older technical founders you might find some PHP but in the teams with younger technical founders I doubt that that would have a high incidence.

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

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Post by johan_larson »

jonahx wrote: post #2

I 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.

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

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