What startsups made the best early-tech decisions?

Question

I've always been impressed by Discord's engineering culture and think they made most of the right decisions regarding their tech stack.What other startups got their tech stack right?

ayushgp · Accepted Answer

Zerodha. They are the biggest stock broker in India with a team of less than 40 people. Check out their tech blog for their tech philosophy: https://zerodha.tech/blog/hello-world/Also, WhatsApp with their choice of Erlang. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wired.com/2015/09/whatsapp-...

dominotw · Answer

Early 2010 startups like github, groupon, shopify, gitlab for using Ruby on Rails to get off the ground and scale.

dpeck · Answer

WhatsApp. Rick Reed&rsquo;s &ldquo;That&rsquo;s Billion with a B&rdquo; presentation is a good glimpse into their own view of it https://youtu.be/c12cYAUTXXs

giraffe_lady · Answer

Slack using php.Most people recoil from it but their reasons were sound and they played well off its strengths and planned for and mitigated its weaknesses.

What startsups made the best early-tech decisions?

I've always been impressed by Discord's engineering culture and think they made most of the right decisions regarding their tech stack.
What other startups got their tech stack right?

Zerodha. They are the biggest stock broker in India with a team of less than 40 people. Check out their tech blog for their tech philosophy: https://zerodha.tech/blog/hello-world/
Also, WhatsApp with their choice of Erlang. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wired.com/2015/09/whatsapp-...

Early 2010 startups like github, groupon, shopify, gitlab for using Ruby on Rails to get off the ground and scale.

WhatsApp. Rick Reed’s “That’s Billion with a B” presentation is a good glimpse into their own view of it https://youtu.be/c12cYAUTXXs

Slack using php.
Most people recoil from it but their reasons were sound and they played well off its strengths and planned for and mitigated its weaknesses.