One thing I'd like to add to this from my own experience is: The trick is to Just do it.
Lately, I've seen this trend when guys are waay to concerned over which language, platform, etc to use. Will it be Coffeescript or Javascript, CSS or Less, Apache or nGinx, PHP or Python, Mysql or MemSQL, and on and on.
At least in my own experience it doesn't matter that much, but what matters most is that you pick something (if it's your first startup it has to be something fast + easy) and you stick with it with just one goal: you get the first version out of the door as soon as possible and start collecting leads.
Because funny thing is, your lead does not care how you're inserting him into the database as long as you do it okay. But if you waste a month deliberating the perfect tools the time you've lost has been lost forever. The same time you could have spend converting those leads into paying customers, getting your site in Google, marketing, etc are all a month behind (even worse sometimes due to analysis paralysis you get either too busy learning something or too bored with the idea that you may never finish).
And this is 100% correct. Nobody cares about technology while it works from the customer perspective and gives you enough momentum to evolve your product.
Lately, I've seen this trend when guys are waay to concerned over which language, platform, etc to use. Will it be Coffeescript or Javascript, CSS or Less, Apache or nGinx, PHP or Python, Mysql or MemSQL, and on and on.
At least in my own experience it doesn't matter that much, but what matters most is that you pick something (if it's your first startup it has to be something fast + easy) and you stick with it with just one goal: you get the first version out of the door as soon as possible and start collecting leads.
Because funny thing is, your lead does not care how you're inserting him into the database as long as you do it okay. But if you waste a month deliberating the perfect tools the time you've lost has been lost forever. The same time you could have spend converting those leads into paying customers, getting your site in Google, marketing, etc are all a month behind (even worse sometimes due to analysis paralysis you get either too busy learning something or too bored with the idea that you may never finish).