[fedebehrens]

That's true - but decisions made on things like deployment/auth/hosting in the early days can give you a good base to build off of. For the first product we built it started off as a Laravel app but building in Javascript made more sense for us given the team we had access to.

[codegeek]

Not sure why you would need to switch from Laravel to JS other than the fact that your devs knew JS more ? Honestly, early days decisions are more about finding product market fit, customers and sales. If you cannot do those, you will be dead anyway and tech stack won't matter. If you are changing tech stack, the only reason to be directly helping do more revenue and almost always, tech stack is not the issue in acquiring customers and sustaining a business in the early days.

There may be a handful (if any) of companies that failed due to tech stack selection. I highly doubt that though.