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I've ran two hackathons, and I keep turning back to bottle.py + mongodb on Heroku. It's the fastest to spin up and modify by a long stretch.

Give MongoDB as much gruff as you want for whatever reason you're predisposed to hate on it, but it's IDEAL for a hackathon where you just want to get stuff done.

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Have to agree, mongo is seriously good for spin up as you put it, pretty much zero configuration, define your "database" schema directly in your app as you make your models (at least thats how it works with mongoose.) Can't get much faster than that. How does the python side of things go?

I don't really understand the hate for mongo.. most of the problems people have with it are problems said people would never face with any data store. Its good at what it does. I think it mostly becomes a problem when people try to use it for something they should be using a relational database for.

Bottle or Flask are really simple microframeworks. Define your path, define your function, done. There are similar things for other scripting languages like Ruby and Node, but I'm not familiar with them.

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