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On the one hand, your MVP version 1.0 should probably be built in anything that is fast and works.

On the other hand, you're gonna want to rebuild that ASAP in something that has legs for longevity's and paying down tech debt's sake. You won't potentially have an edge over any competitors by using their same tech stack.



I suspect that for most companies, the tech stack they run, the custom software on top of it, isn’t meant to be a competitive advantage. It’s just the cost of doing business.


Right, but I know that to be false. In the extreme case to prove my point, if you write your stack in Brainfuck on top of Oracle, you're going to have a much harder time than if you write it in JS on top of Postgres




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