[jimbokun]

You need all that stuff when you need to scale. For an MVP you can get away with very little.

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It depends on how you deploy it.

Django on Render( and presumably a heroku) just works.

It's still much more work that just dropping in a Firebase url. Firebase can lead to poor design choices and come back to bite you, but hopefully by then you've already raised a few VC rounds and you're rolling in dough.