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Hello, thanks for your reply. You're correct, my main aim for this question was to understand which language may be best to get the app developed in.

I'd love to learn a language too, and eventually be able to develop/maintain apps myself. But for this project, I won't have time to learn.

Thanks for the feedback.


Thanks so much for your feedback. I think with this project I'm going to look at outsourcing the development, but roll up my sleeves and learn as much as I can at the same time.

Currently I know a bit of HTML and CSS and I'm looking to 'master' both of those and then pick a language to try learning. Though after reading your reply, I feel I need to learn Javascript too.

Really appreciate your thoughts on Ruby and thanks again for taking the time to reply.


Thanks so much for your feedback. At the moment I'm learning CSS and some more advanced HTML, once I feel comfortable with that, I plan on learning one of the above languages.

For this project - as I'd like to develop is asap - I may outsource and learn alongside development with the aim of one day being able to maintain and develop myself. Though I know it'll be a lot of hard work and probably a long time before I'm in a position to do that.

Thanks again for your feedback.


I don't think you'll follow through with the idea.

Plus the guy you hire won't slow down enough or likely won't be able to explain whatever code he's copying and pasting for you.

Start here: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/intro/tutorial01/

Give it a month.

You'll get it.


Reading code is harder than writing it. Don't rely on maintaining your devs' app as a way to learn.


Thanks so much :) I'll take a look at the logo and see if there's anything I can do with it.

Appreciate the feedback. Is it something you'd personally use?


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