How do you pick a technology platform to prototype a new product?

How do you decide what technology platform to use to prototype a new product?

My rule for building new products, especially program-intensive new products, is to expect that you’re going to be changing it a whole lot.

Use that to drive all of your decisions.

That means you want to use the least custom code.

You want to do the fastest deployment.

And you want to pick something that is the easiest to recycle into the next platform.

Chances are, no matter what platform you pick, you’ll be updating and shifting it to something new in 2-3 years no matter how technologically savvy you are.

So build for change and you won’t regret it.

If you have a question about your technology platform and want to talk about it, get in touch.