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Just curious, seems to see a lot of Elixir posts crop up on HN lately.

I know a startup that did £75K+ in sales in the first week with only just using node + heroku.

Could the same be applied to Elixir if it is really that good?

Are there any pitfalls that one should know about?

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Your tech stack is going to have 99.99% less to do with your first week's success than your business plan and execution.

This seems slightly bizarre -- sorry for /s but if you have engineers who are familiar with {language} rather than Node then they'll probably generate more sales for your company building an application in {language} than they would building in in Node. The pitfalls would be that it'll be slower to get an application in {language} to production if the engineers know how program Node but not {language}.

Elixir on Heroku is just as viable (we're still running on a single heroku Dyno and postgres instance on Elixir).

Not having much info, my guess is many languages would worked out for that startup.