HipChat could be added, which is one of the best group chat services.

We don't hire people based on our tech stack, or at least knowing every part of is not a prerequisite. I know that great engineers can learn any stack quickly. If you have experience in writing similar (in this case frontend heavy JS) apps with any stack you can potentially work for us.

Anyways, the stack is part of your app. You can either write it yourself or build on existing components. Sure you can build your stack on top of more traditional technology, and likely there will be more potential candidates but finding good developers will be just as hard.

Thanks for feedback! Yeah, that paragraph was a bit unclear, I edited it slightly.

I guess my main point was that from my personal experience, writing less code and writing clean code leads to less bugs.

Awesome, glad to be of help :)

What I meant that you can keep the files small thus it's easy to find the correct line of error.

then you meant less verbose

What is good in Django is mainly it's ORM, which we don't need. Its templating system sucks, and also its memory usage and performance otherwise.

Did you consider Pyramid? It's insanely flexible, has amazing documentation, doesn't make any assumptions about the kind of applications you want to build with it and has a "pay only for what you need" philosophy. I'm currently using Django for my projects because it's a good fit for them (CRUD apps that generate static pages; zero frontend wizardry), but if I were to write a frontend-heavy webapp that talked to a server using a JSON API, Pyramid would be my first choice.

And if you really need a good ORM at some point, you can just us SQLAlchemy which is a lot nicer anyway.

Yeah thanks, I forgot to add a note on this.