marcocampana

People like this are absolute legends. It brings me so much joy to look at this and I really appreciate the hard work that went into this. Thank you!

Those times were absolutely great. It's only human to look at the past with a feeling of melancholy and forget how great is the present and the long way we came. Today you can actually build your own APIs with very little knowledge and effort: easy to get started frameworks, free or inexpensive hosting in the cloud, lots of freely available data. That's pretty awesome too.

I'm working on deeplearninghq.com a HN clone focused on Deep Learning with the goal to be a (community driven) resource that helps people to be up to date with the latest news, research, papers and discussions on DL. ETA ~2 weeks

What you achieved is actually pretty impressive. Teaching yourself programming and build a product with traction and worth of investment. Use this at your advantage, the kind of developer that you want to hire first will respect that.

Hire a Senior full-stack developer and communicate very well that the state of the platform (and the code) is at "junior" level. Use this argument to motivate him, many developers like the challenge to set standards and lead technical decisions early on in a project.

Sure you could use Erlang for that, but what Dharmesh is saying is that building this kind of solution in node.js would definitely be easier and possibly faster to code that writing it with other languages/frameworks.