Stick with familiar tools when startups grow fast

Levels attributes his use of PHP, HTML, and CSS to familiarity rather than deliberate choice. When his startups grew rapidly, he never found time to learn newer technologies like Node.js, prioritizing shipping over adopting supposedly better languages.

Pieter Levels·Published Aug 20, 2024

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I think it’s accidental, because that’s the thing I knew. I knew PHP, I knew HTML, CSS, because you make websites, and when my startups started taking off, I didn’t have time to… I remember putting on my to-do list like, “Learn Node.js,” because it’s important to switch, because this obviously is much better language than PHP, and I never learned it.

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