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Your tech stack is the set of tools, frameworks, languages, and services you'll use to build the product. Choosing it isn't purely a technical decision — it's a strategic one. The wrong stack can slow down development, create vendor dependencies, or make future changes prohibitively expensive. The right one gives you speed now without closing off options later.
Most of the stack debates that consume early teams are about the wrong things: which language is 'best', which framework is most popular, which database will handle scale. At the MVP stage, these are largely irrelevant. The questions that matter are: can we build fast enough, can we hire for this, can we maintain it, and what happens when we need to change direction?
The boring choice is often the right one. A well-unde...
