Comment Re:Super-cool? (Score 1) 56
Preach on.
The first thing I thought when I saw "super-cool" was that the poster is probably more concerned with doing something "fun" than truly coming up with the best solution. Once you get even a little experience with system development, especially LARGE system development, you quickly realize how a "super-cool" and fun idea turns out to be much more complicated/time-consuming/painful than originally though. Plus you have to completely support its users and update it and patch the servers every week and deal with power failures and....ugh. Consultants that host the app can lighten that load considerably. Then again, I am biased.
However, if they are going to charge you $100,000 for "hello world" then bail out and write it yourself. :)