The Perfect Startup Tech Stack?
Every developer has a tech stack they consider to be the best. Mine has changed over time – and is changing again for Hardcover.
There is no “perfect tech stack”. I’m sorry you had to find out this way. Every startup is different. Some ideas can be turned into multimillion-dollar companies using only a spreadsheet and phone calls. Others require machine learning, big data, and years of research.
Hardcover is somewhere in the middle. We’re building a platform focused on social discovery and organization for serious book lovers. For that, we need a huge database of books – hundreds of thousands to millions of them.
If someone wants to track what books they want to read, they need a reliable place to find all books. This database has long been one of Goodreads primary advantages and one of our uphill battles.
We’re also a distributed team mostly working on this part-time. We span 4 time zones across 3 countries. The tools we use to work will be different than a group of friends collaborating in person.
