Early teams often choose technology for the company they imagine becoming rather than the one they are. Boring, familiar tools usually win.
Optimize for iteration speed
Pick the stack your team already knows well. The fastest stack is the one where you can find and fix a bug at midnight without reading documentation.
Keep escape hatches
- Favor widely used tools with strong communities.
- Avoid locking core logic to any single vendor.
- Leave clear seams so you can replace a piece later.
You can always adopt something more specialized once you have the scale and the team to justify it. Premature sophistication is just risk with extra steps.