It's probably not the stack I would pick and my initial reaction is always to gasp when I see startups built on Microsoft, but...
- ASP.NET can scale, if you do it right. Aside from Microsoft.com/MSN, which don't really count, MySpace uses it (though they upgraded from ColdFusion, which wasn't much better) and Plenty of Fish, the web's largest dating site, uses it too:
http://www.plentyoffish.com/about_team.aspx
These are probably all larger than the most successful Rails sites.
- ASP.NET MVC isn't a horrible programming model. Forget the abomination that's normal ASP.NET with its funky events. If you've used another MVC framework like Rails or Cake, you'll feel right at home.
- It's all about getting v1 out and releasing early and often. If your team grew up on Microsoft, are you really going to make them all learn a new framework? If you do it right and prove out your idea, you can always rewrite later.
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It's probably not the stack I would pick and my initial reaction is always to gasp when I see startups built on Microsoft, but...
- ASP.NET can scale, if you do it right. Aside from Microsoft.com/MSN, which don't really count, MySpace uses it (though they upgraded from ColdFusion, which wasn't much better) and Plenty of Fish, the web's largest dating site, uses it too: http://www.plentyoffish.com/about_team.aspx These are probably all larger than the most successful Rails sites.
- ASP.NET MVC isn't a horrible programming model. Forget the abomination that's normal ASP.NET with its funky events. If you've used another MVC framework like Rails or Cake, you'll feel right at home.
- Microsoft's startup program gives startups the early software for super cheap: http://microsoftstartupzone.com/
- It's all about getting v1 out and releasing early and often. If your team grew up on Microsoft, are you really going to make them all learn a new framework? If you do it right and prove out your idea, you can always rewrite later.
Also, lot easier to find programmers if you're in .net or java. One might argue about the quality, but certainly the supply is much larger.
"my initial reaction is always to gasp when I see startups built on Microsoft, but..."
What would you recommend that career Microsoft developers use for their startups?
Maybe just have static html pages, web services, and jquery for Ajax. Use whatever you want for the web services (Python)