[roudaki]

Stupid question, slightly off-topic but why every web app needs to be ready to scale and serve a billion users? I don't mean this in the pessimistic way of "be real you are not next Facebook". My question is what do you think all that money is for, one you are asking for from VCs? Facebook was not ready for a million users in the beginning. You need old stable and safe tech that will not crash your demo or provide horrible user experience to important first-generation users. Every time alpha breaks catastrophically is because somebody ambitiously tried something not well documented or understood. People understand MySQL. why would you add extra time and cost to your original first budget? to prove what? I understand it makes job less "job" and more fun but is it truly worth experimenting while you are fighting for survival? If I put all the dead startups in my cv it would be 50 pages long

[thanpolas]

It doesn't. Who claimed that?