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kosmikko

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kosmikko··on Free or cheap tools for startups
HipChat could be added, which is one of the best group chat services.
kosmikko··on Building Backbone.js/Python based tech stack
We don't hire people based on our tech stack, or at least knowing every part of is not a prerequisite. I know that great engineers can learn any stack quickly. If you have experience in writing similar (in this case frontend heavy JS) apps with any stack you can potentially work for us.

Anyways, the stack is part of your app. You can either write it yourself or build on existing components. Sure you can build your stack on top of more traditional technology, and likely there will be more potential candidates but finding good developers will be just as hard.

kosmikko··on Building Backbone.js/Python based tech stack
Thanks for feedback! Yeah, that paragraph was a bit unclear, I edited it slightly.

I guess my main point was that from my personal experience, writing less code and writing clean code leads to less bugs.

kosmikko··on Building Backbone.js/Python based tech stack
What I meant that you can keep the files small thus it's easy to find the correct line of error.
kosmikko··on Building Backbone.js/Python based tech stack
What is good in Django is mainly it's ORM, which we don't need. Its templating system sucks, and also its memory usage and performance otherwise.
kosmikko··on Building Backbone.js/Python based tech stack
Yeah thanks, I forgot to add a note on this.